David Blamey

David Blamey was born in London in 1961. During the early 1990s he showed at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London and established the independent publishing imprint Open Editions as a vehicle for collaborations between artists, writers and academics from a variety of parallel and interconnecting fields. During this period he curated the international touring exhibitions Work & Turn and Looking At Words: Reading Pictures, both surveys of artists’ publishing that traced the development of the form from the 1970s to the present day. Since the late 90s he has exhibited at Arthur R. Rose, London; Glassbox, Paris; Project, Dublin; Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw; and Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, amongst others. In 2006 he was awarded the Arts Council of England’s Prayog International Artist Fellowship and was a guest contributor to the Experimenta 2007 festival in Bangalore and Mumbai. He has edited two major cultural studies books: Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues On Location and Mobility, (2002) and Living Pictures: Perspectives On The Film Poster In India, (2005), both published by Open Editions. He is the founder and director of the critical forum programme in the School of Communications at the RCA in London and has written in a number of critical contexts, most recently for ‘Design and Art’ (2007), an anthology of writing about the historical interconnections between art and design, edited by Alex Coles and published by the Whitechapel and MIT Press.