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David Bellamy is an artist, scientist, textile designer and environmentalist. His paintings, sculptural vessels, textile designs and slow clothes refer to the natural world, out of which we evolved and upon which we depend. His fabrics are produced using labour-intensive methods in the artisanal textile studio that adjoins his home.
David Bellamy launched his new ceramic sculptural forms, together with ink paintings and etchings, at a joint exhibition titled ‘Presence of Mind — A diary as making’. Of this collection, he says: “I think of my making as a plotting or documentation of my inner life. I consider the ceramics to be drawings as well as sculptures — abstract and expressionistic, highly charged 3D materialisations… diary pages… thinking as making... We live in increasingly anxious and crisis-ridden times, and I want to be able to look Life in the face, and have a true response to its actuality, without becoming paralysed, so strategies of enablement are required..."
David’s academic credentials reflect his wide-ranging interests. He holds a BSc degree in Advanced Biology (Wits, Johannesburg), a BA Hons in Fine Art and Critical Studies (St Martin’s School of Art, London) and studied Zen Shiatsu and Traditional Chinese Medicine (London College of Shiatsu).
Explore human and more-than-human entanglements with David in these fragile ceramics.
By David Bellamy
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Monument to the seals of Tsarsberg