About

David Cotterrell is an installation artist working across media and technologies to explore the social and political tendencies of a world at once shared and divided.

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Observer Effect
Observer Effect 2012

This work is in part derived from a short story by Ray Bradbury. Originally published as 'The World the Children Made’ in the September 23, 1950 edition of the The Saturday Evening Post and later presented as ‘The Veldt’ in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951.

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News

Ubumuntu - 17.07.20 - 19.07.20

David & Ru will be contributing to the 6th Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity through the presentation of a new art work – Transmission, and an in-conversation event – COMMONS Dialogues. T...

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Mis(sing)-Communication - 27.04.20

David and Ru's two channel video project, Mirror III : Horizon, is being screend from 27th May to 3rd May as part of the six week online programme curated by Tess Charnley. For its first online ...

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truth.lie.lie - 13.09.19

For his sixth solo exhibition at Danielle Arnaud gallery, David Cotterrell presents a selection of recent and new works considering the mediation of evidence. Installations devised in eclectic context...

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Ubumuntu - 13.07.19

David and Ru will be presenting their new production, Mother Wall, at the Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity in Kigali, Rwanda this weekend. The play is a collaboration with the actors Nadie Kammallaw...

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Alternate Languages - 16.03.19

The installation works, Mirror IV : Legacy and Mirror III : Horizon will be shown as part of the event, Alternate Languages at the Royal Academy. Audiences are invited to explore the public...

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Human Rights 2018 : 10.12.18

David will be showing new installation works within the 2018 Human Rights Exhibition in Colombo, Sri Lanka.  In response to the on-going political crisis in Sri Lanka, and to coincide with Inter...

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TAP - 23.11.18

David's works, OnSilent and The Wall will be shown within the exhibition, ‘The Art Practitioner’ (TAP). Artist Curators, Jacques Nimki and Stephanie Douet have selected nineteen artists,&...

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Transmission - 13.11.18

On Tuesday, David and Ru will be presenting a public talk in Sheffield, exploring their recent collaborative work for the 2018 Transmission Lecture series.  About the talk: In recent years, Dav...

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Brouhaha - 04.11.18

For the second edition of the Brno/Kabinet Muz cultural festival, David and Ru will be performing their iphone tragedy, OnSilent. This new version, translated into Czech and syncronised acro...

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To Make Art Happen - 06.04.18

On the 6th April at Safehouse 1, David and Ruwanthie's new collaborative work, OnSilent, will be shown as part of the exhibition, To make art happen. The show is the first of three internat...

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