David Carpanini's work has been the
subject of three television documentaries and has been
acquired by numerous prestigious collections including:
the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Newport Museum
and Art Gallery, Her Majesty the Queen, Windsor, National
Museum of Wales, National Library of Wales, Contemporary
Art Society of Wales, British Steel, Rank Xerox, British
National Oil Corporation, National Coal Board, Government
Art Collection DOE, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Fitzwilliam
Museum Cambridge as well as many University and College
collections.
Most of David Carpanini's work has
focused on the valleys and former mining communities
of South Wales. Speaking of his work in Art
Review in June 1998, Carpanini said:
"My inspiration lies in the contemplation
of the familiar. I believe that man has a special bond,
a special relationship with that part of Earth which
nourishes his boyhood and it is in the valleys and former
mining communities of South Wales, scarred by industrialisation
but home for a resolute people that I have found the
trigger for my creative imagination. The stark landscape
and close knit, often claustrophobic social infrastructure
are a fundamental part of my own background and I have
attempted to use the natural drama of this location to
explore aspects of the human condition such as fear,
isolation, loneliness, brutality, dignity, pride and
hope.
All my paintings and prints are studio
assemblages, unhurried distillations of sketchbook observations
and visual memories. I have always made extensive use
of small notebooks. These are working tools in which
I make records of both a graphic and literary nature.
These observations are not always put to immediate use;
indeed months, even years may elapse before a particular
theme is explored further. It is from this reservoir
of materials that my pictures grow. The design and manner
of any work arises as a natural process of growth and
evolution; as an extension of object and purpose, not
imposed in a preconceived way." |
Shadows in a Theatre
of Dreams
(Acrylic)
Lure it Back to Cancel
Half a Line (Acrylic)
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