Ciriculum Vita
Her Majesty the Queen’s Royal Collection.
Viscount Windsor
The Palace of Westminster. London
National Museum of Wales. Cardiff
Birmingham Art Gallery & Museum
Wolverhampton & Bilston Art Galleries & Museums
Dudley Art Gallery
Stafford Art Gallery
Walsall New Gallery
Salisbury Museum
Devizes Museum
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Taunton Museum & Art gallery
Cheltenham Museum & Art Gallery
Tokyo University Collection
Fidelity Investments Boston USA
Cootes the Bankers London
Hyatt Hotels
Born in Bilston West Midlands 1954
Wolverhampton Foundation College
1972-1973
Liverpool Art College Three
Year BA Honors Degree 1974-1977
Birmingham Art College Post
Graduate Certificate in Art Education
1965 Winner Brook Bond National
Childrens Art Competition
1969 Exhibitor Royal
Academy London Childrens Art National Competition which toured the country
1970 Exhibited at Midlands
25 Cannon Hill Birmingham
1975 Four Man Show at
Adelphi Hotel Liverpool
1976 Four Man Show Newtown
Art gallery Mid Wales
1982 First one Man Show
Bilston Art Gallery
1982 One Man Show
Tettenhall Gallery
1983 One Man Show Dudley
Art Gallery
1984 Exhibited in Drawing
the Line exhibition at Silk Top Hat Gallery Ludlow Shropshire
1984 International Five Man
Show at Silk Top Hat Gallery Ludlow Shropshire
1984 Exhibited with the New
Artists Group Wolverhampton Art Gallery
1984 One Man Show Walsall
Art Gallery
1984 One Man Show Dragon
Art Gallery Newport Shropshire
1985 Two Man Show Stafford
Art Gallery
1985 One Man Show Devizes
Museum Wiltshire
1986 Major Commission **
The Area Museum for the South west of England commissioned me to produce ‘on
site’ works at all the leading ancient sites from the Scillies in the West to
Stonehenge in the east. The commission took two years to put together and
toured the west country for eighteen months.
The archaeologist Aubrey
Burl wrote the text to accompany the works created which toured the following
place-
Truro, Bristol ,Falmouth,
Devizes, Taunton, Cheltenham, Salisbury and Woodspring Museum Weston-Super
Mare.
1987 One Man Show
Wolverhampton Art Gallery called Stonelines. This was a massive exhibition
showing over eighty works.
1987 Commission** in
co-operation with National Museum of Wales to work ‘on site’ at all their
leading ancient sites. Took two years, over ninety works were made. They never
toured as intended due to lack of resource from the Welsh Museum system.
National Museum saved the day by purchasing several for their permanent
collection. All this work to date has not been seen in Wales.
1988 Mixed show Auther
Anderson Birmingham
1989 Mixed Show Midland
Contemporary Art Birmingham
1989 Mixed Show Long &
Ryle International , London WS1
1989 One Man Show IBM
Warwick
1989 One Man Show Eagle Works
Wolverhampton
1990 One Man Show Midlands
Contemporary Art Birmingham
1990 One Man Show The
Contemporary Art Gallery 59 Ebury Street London WS1
1990 One Man Show Jane
Marler Gallery Ludlow Shropshire
1991 One Man Show Dudley
Art Gallery called Cathedrals in Stone monument & Wrens Nest work
1991 Commission To produce
a large drawing for the new interpretation CENTRE on Wrens Nest. The
drawing is still in storage
in Dudley and Art Gallery Permanent Collection as funding was pulled out for
the
project at the last minute.
All the drawings made of the limestone mining were never purchased as promised.
All very political because of the caverns being ‘in filled’ at the time.
1991 Prize Winner Mid Art-
Thompson Prize
1991 Mixed Show Birmingham
University
1991 One of the main
speakers at ‘Archaeology in Britain 91’at Birmingham University
1992 One Man Show Midlands
Contemporary Art Birmingham
1992 One Man Show Devizes
Museum Wiltshire
1993 One Man Show Cambridge
University Archaeology Department
1994 Commission**
Wolverhampton Art Gallery to produce etchings of fossils
1994 One Man Show
Wolverhampton Art Gallery linked in with ‘Scratching the Surface’ exhibition a
residency with Colton Hills School in Wolverhampton.Fist massive residency
combining music, ceramics, sculpture, on ‘site drawing’ over 600 students works
were exhibited with 20 of mine.
1995 One Man Show Devizes
Museum Wiltshire +Commission** A drawing of Avebury which is on permanent
display at the Museum
1995 One Man Show Aberdeen
Arts Centre Scotland
1995 One Man Show linked in
with Bilston High School Residency called ‘ Changing the Routes’
1996 Commission** for
Bilston Art Gallery for their Interpretation/ History Gallery several works
showing the changing landscape around the new Black Country Route.
1996 Exhibition ‘ Inside
out’ Bilston Art Gallery. An exhibition created from a residency at Featherston
prison & Minerva Wharf Probation Service
1996 Selected by ***The
Palace of Westminster from 6,000 artists to have work purchased for their
Permanent Collection &
*** work selected to go into their book ‘Art in Parliament’ which stamps me as
the fine artist recording the ancient monuments today in out British Landscape
1997[Oct]/1998[Feb] One Man
Show Salisbury Museum in the old print room ten years of my best etchings
1997 Exhibition Avebury in
Art Devizes Museum Wiltshire
1998 One Man Show
‘Shropshire Landscape’ Ludlow Silk Top Hat Gallery Shropshire
1998 One Man Show Devizes
Wiltshire Paintings of Wiltshire Landscape +latest monument work
1998 Prizewinner ***The
McAlpine Painting Competition Walsall Art Gallery and Museum
1999 Commission *** Walsall
New Gallery to make a large etching reflecting the construction of the New
Gallery
1999 Mixed exhibition
Castles Devizes Museum Wiltshire
1999 One Man Show Silk Top
hat Gallery Ludlow Shropshire
1999 Commission*** Walsall
New Art Gallery to make a mixed media work from the gallery roof looking at the
West Midland Panorama. The finished work took two months to complete and will
be permanently installed into the Interpretation Galley A flip book of me
drawing, and an interactive CD Rom makes for exciting listening and looking!
1999 Birmingham Museum and
Art Gallery Included in their 20th Century
Contemporary Art Collection
show opens 4th December in the Gas-Hall
2000 One man show
Washington Gallery Penarth South Wales ‘Gunning in Wales’ landscapes/ancient
sites.
2000 CD ROM work done about
the Black Country Route as it was built along with other artists who produced
sculptures for the route
2000 The Rolf Street
Project Black Country Museum Work for the new museum.
2000 One man Show Silk Top
hat Gallery Ludlow Shropshire’ Shropshire Landscape’
Presented to Her Royal
Majesty the Queen at Walsall New Art Gallery 5th May 2000
2000 One Man Show Stafford
Art Gallery[Shire Hall] Panorama from the Shire Hall Roof & latest monument
work. End 30 Sept.
2000 Elected Assiciate
Member of the Royal Society of Birmingham Artists.
2000/2001 Year of the
Artist Award from the British Arts Council to produce a six steel panel etched
instillation as a memorial to the workers of the West Midlands. The finished
work will be installed in Bilston Craft GalleryWest Midlands. Project happening
now until December. The work ended was exhibited here for 18 months instead of
three months!
2001 Working in New York.
2001 One Man Show . Top Hat
Gallery Ludlow Shropshire.[April]
2001 Working back in
Ireland /Northern Stone Circles [April]
2002 Opening of Year of the
Artist ’Images of Industry’ Bilston Craft Gallery
2002 New York Arts Expo
[March] Steel etched panels, drawings and paintings.
2002 One Man Show Devizes
Museum Wiltshire.[June] Many Journeys, Many Megaliths.
2002 One Man Show Silk Top
Hat Ludlow, Many Journeys Many Megaliths’
2002 Working in Cyprus
drawing the many tombs there.
2002 Working Northern
Ireland. Sligo. Carrowmoor Burial Complex.
2003 Exhibiting drawings
,paintings and prints at The Water Hall. Birmingham. Feb
2003 One Man Show Silk Top
Hat. Ludlow. Feb/March
2003 Crown Nail Polished
steel etched fence project.
2003 Crosby Coatings Steel
gates commission.
2003 Group show ‘Earths Teeth’
Sibford. Oxfordshire.
2003 Exhibiting Wine Street
Gallery. Devizes .Wiltshire.
2003 Walsall Print Show.
‘Print matters’ Walsall New Gallery. West Midlands. May/June My image used as
centre piece for poster invites etc.
2004 Exhibiting Wine Street
Gallery. Devizes Wiltshire.
2004 Working out in Korea
at Bronze Age dated burial chambers.
2004 Exhibiting Silk Top
Hat Gallery. Ludlow Shropshire.
2005 Residency ‘IMAGINE’
Oxford Education. River and Rowing Museum Oxford &Museum of Modern Art
2005 One man show River
& Rowing Henley – steel etched plates of Thames Bridge Sections
2005 One Man Show [Touring
exhibition]. Devizes Museum. Korean Burial Chamber work. [Nov/Dec]
2006 Working in the French
Alps looking at Mt Blanc and surrounding landscape.
2006 Working in Cyprus
looking at castles in the north, tombs and settlements.
2006 Residency St Mary’s
Junior School, Hempstells Junior School, St Chad’s Junior School and Pye Green
Junior School– Creative Partnerships Residencies– Dave worked boys producing
drawings, prints and large steel etched sculptures in the four venues.
2006 One Man Show
–Ironbridge Waterloo Gallery.
2006 Permanently available
in my own Church Hill Gallery Ironbridge.
2007 Catshill Middle
School, Bromsgrove, Birmingham Commissioned Dave to create a large outdoor
steel etched polished surface sculpture with
2007 Merryfields Special
School, Newcastle –Under Lyme commission Dave to create a large steel etched
sculpture with pupils there. The finished work is now hanging in the entrance
to the school
2007 [ongoing now]
Commission and Residency Ironbridge Coalbrookdale Infant and Junior School– to
develop drawing, and printmaking with the children to help create and design
decorative images for steel etched panels . Dave has been commissioned to
create four steel constructed arches which will hold 64 acid etched polished
steel panels. The archways will create an attractive entrance to the Dale St
side of the school. Dave is also making four large steel etched plates which
will have images of local industry and landscape. The larges plate will be
permanently attached to the fence between the archways.
2007 Two Man Show Gunning
& Gunning Waterloo Gallery Ironbridge
2007 October Exhibition of
Korean works at the Kangwhagon Festival South Korea.
2007 World Heritage
exhibition Organizer and exhibitor. [Sept 2007] Four week exhibition
highlighting Ironbridge Artists.
2007 Two Man Show Gunning
& Gunning Oaken gates Theatre.[Sept]
2008 Tenbury Wells Project–
working with five schools and local community to created seven steel etched
panels to be placed throughout Tenbury to lift its profile and create a trail
of visual splendor. [March– July]
First Retrospective
Exhibition. Devizes Museum Wiltshire. [ July– October] Workshops with local
schools at Avebury.
London Gunning &
Gunning Show September 10th—17th The Hepsibah Gallery, Hammersmith London.
2010/11 Retrospective at
Bilston Craft Gallery. All my leading works about ancient sites, and industrial
landscape over the past thirty years.
I continue to travel to record as a
fine artist the wonderful megalithic legacy left by our forefathers. I have
many drawings now made on site and have been working out in Crete , France and
Spain this year. I also love painting out in Shropshire in all weathers. My
fondness of Ironbridge still compels me to draw and print its wondrous houses
and streets. I have recently finished new steel etched industrial panels which
reflect my memories as a child of West Midland Industry[ 2011]. Also recent
work has been large drawings of Drop Forges at Stokes and Sons in Brierly Hill
West Midlands.
Hand building printing machines for
other artists, students etc has been a great privillage over the past 25 years.
Over a thousand machine sales world wide so far and this year is looking like
the best sales year yet.
Dave Gunning Oct 2011