Harbinger
Harbinger
David Gardner
Pencil on paper
28 x 28 cm
2025
David Gardner (b. 1987) lives and works in London. Gardner creates figurative paintings and drawings with an interrogation on his own queer body and its relationship to different spaces, both real and imagined. The body is always half concealed / half revealed, hiding and emerging behind veils, fences or flora. The images are staged to slowly reveal themselves, initiating an act of looking, one where the gaze must penetrate a boundary or a threshold through and into the picture plane. He has shown in exhibitions recently at Slugtown; Wilder Gallery, London; LBF Contemporary, London; Bernston Bhattacharjee, London; Palazzo Monti, Brescia; Public Service Gallery, Stockholm and the V&A, London. His works are held in the Royal Collection, V&A Collections, and private collections internationally.