David Blamey was born in London in 1961. His work encompasses
several activities, including publishing, editing, writing and exhibiting, which
all overlap to form a multi-layered practice that defies straightforward
categorisation. He has said, "I like the idea that the distance between the
art world and the real world can be almost nothing. Framing, adjusting,
assisting, promoting, thinking about and reassessing what's already there
- that is my work".
During the early 1990s he showed at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery in
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. Since the late 90s he has
shown at a number of galleries run by artists' collectives - Arthur R. Rose
in London, Glass Box in Paris and Four in Dublin - as well as exhibiting
at established venues such as Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw and
Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia. For over twenty years he has
regularly travelled and carried out research in India and in 2006 he was
awarded the Arts Council of England's first Prayog International Artist
Fellowship and was a guest contributor to the Experimenta 2007 festival in
Bangalore and Mumbai. His edited cultural studies books include,
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 director of the critical forum programme
in the School of Communications at the Royal College of Art.