David Evershed

evershedd@yahoo.co.uk

 

Curriculum Vitae

Educated in London and Kent, lives and works in Kent

Current concepts, ideas and themes

Dave Evershed works mainly in photographic media using the images that he samples from everyday life. His work both appropriates from and refers to the world we live in. He strives to find the essence of things and to make connections between them. His work establishes threads of kinship between us by identifying shared memories and experiences.

Processes and techniques

Drawing Photography Sculpture
Painting Printmaking

Influences and aims

David’s work reflects his changing pre-occupations with the minutiae of life. His fascination is with everyday experiences that go un-remarked by the majority. There is also a religious undercurrent in much of his work that comes from somewhere that he feels he has yet to discover.

Career path

1975-1986 Social statistician, Greater London Council
1986-present Computer Network specialist, Kent County Council

Qualifications

1976 A Level Art and Zoology, Colfe's Grammar School, Lee, London
2001 BTEC, Fine Art, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, Kent
2005 City & Guilds Teaching Certificate Stage I, Canterbury College, Kent
2002-2007 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury, Kent

Teaching Experience

2004 Artists’ Books, HMP Cookham Wood, Rochester

Areas of work

Adult education, Residencies and Workshops
Commissioned work & cooperative projects may be considered

Selected Group Exhibitions

2002 Kent Adult Education, Canterbury Group Show
2004 Glade, Bridge, near Canterbury
2004 Apollo Now, Whitstable
2005 Not Heme, Bridge, near Canterbury
2006 South East Open Studios
2006 First Class Post, Maidstone/Ashford/Dartford/Folkestone