King’s practice of walking, observing and collecting images, has extended to the streets of New York, Mumbai, Paris and Berlin. In these cities he has created documentary projects of industrial buildings, photographed musicians and performers and made hyper-detailed images capturing the intricacy and delicacy of hand-woven textiles, always with a concern for exploring the complexity of colour, from deep cobalt blues to warm magentas and fiery burnt oranges. 

 

More recently, he has begun to combine individual images from this vast archive of work; for example contrasting a grand Parisian staircase with elements of the graffitied walls and iron work from a bridge in Cologne, bringing together otherwise unrelated shapes, objects and locations. These composite semi-abstract large-format images are carefully printed onto fine cotton rag papers, the tactile quality of which imbues each work with the physicality of an object as opposed to the intangible nature of a picture on a screen.

 

David R King’s work has been shown at galleries and art fairs throughout the UK, including at Affordable Art Fair Spring (2022); NoonPowell Gallery, London (2021-22); Saatchi Other Art Fair, London (2020);  The Pound Arts Centre, Wiltshire (2020); 44ad Artspace, Bath (2020); Peacock ArtsTrail, Wiltshire, 10 day open-studio (2019); Glove Factory Studios (2019); The Art Bar, Bath (2019).