Wasteland
Black Shed Gallery
2025
Group Exhibition
Wasteland is the outcome of a year-long project initiated by Sharon Wylde in collaboration with curator Lorna Ough at Black Shed Gallery. Bringing together seven artists, the exhibition explores themes of place, materiality, and time through the use of found, repurposed, and organic materials.
David presented a collection of sculptural assemblages for the outdoor woodland area, shaped by slow time, weathering, and more-than-human engagement. Three bodily-scale hybrid forms (chthonic ones), developed over several years in the garden, carried surfaces altered by seasonal forces, embodying fluidity, vulnerability, and processes of co-making, unmaking, and remaking.
Alongside these, smaller handheld sculptures were displayed within a cabinet of curiosities, offering more intimate encounters. A triptych of prints documenting a night-time fox encounter extended the work toward more-than-human presence and unpredictability.
The exhibition included works by Alice Freeman, Beccy McCray, David Kefford, Liz Elton, Rowan Corkill, Sarah Pager, and Sharon Wylde.