David Cotterrell

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.

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.

News

PPAN Conference Palestine - 29.11.17

David will be presenting at the Palestinian Performing Arts Network's first international conference in Ramallah. The conference will aim to assess the potential for arts to engage communities in vari...

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Age of Terror - 26.10.17

David's photographic work, Gateway II, has been acquired by the Imperial War Museum and included within the new exhibition, Age of Terror: Art since 9/11. The UK’s first major exhibition to...

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The War Dialogues - 07.08.17

Does the placement, presence, and input of artists need to be re-negotiated and re-imagined in the context of contemporary crises? This panel discussion will explore the changing role, responsibility ...

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Three Mirrors and a Wall - 24.02.17

For his fifth solo exhibition at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, David presents three works from the Mirror project: a series of two-screen works produced in collaboration with Ruwanthie de Chickera...

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All-Party Parliamentary Group - 24.01.17

On Tuesday, David will be presenting at the House of Commons to the fourth evidence session on the Inquiry into Building Resilience to Radicalisation in Middle East & North Africa (MENA). Th...

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Peckham Platform Retrospective - 25.11.16

David's work Slipstream, will be shown at Peckham Platform for its final exhibition before moving to a new home next spring, a richly populated timeline of all twenty original projects so far celebrat...

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Inaugural Lecture - 17.11.16

David Cotterrell, Professor of Fine Art at the University of Brighton, presents his inaugural lecture: 'Empathy and Risk' For the past few years, Cotterrell has been embarking on an eclectic series o...