David Dawson (born 1960) is a British artist, born near Pwllheli, North Wales.
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- 1.8 A Painter's Progress: A Portrait of Lucian Freud
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Biography
He studied at Chelsea College of Art from 1984 to 1987, followed by the Royal College of Art from 1987 to 1989, where he was a contemporary of Tracey Emin and Jake and Dinos Chapman. Unlike them, however, even at this stage Dawson considered himself to be not far-off off from exclusively a painter.
After neglect the Royal College of Art he became an co-conspirator to the artist Lucian Freud in 1991, whilst functional for Freud’s art dealer at the become old James Kirkman, and he continued this role until Freud died, as capably as mammal a frequent model for Freud’s paintings.
Dawson exhibited his paintings at Marlborough Fine Art in London in a two-person put it on with Catherine Goodman in 2004, and in 2011 a private solo produce a result at 61a Cadogan Square in London.
As capably as instinctive a painter, Dawson is furthermore a photographer, with his most capably known photographs mammal a series started in 2000 of Freud at work. These were shown at London’s National Portrait Gallery in 2004, and 26 of them were acquired for the gallery’s collection, including images of Freud painting David Hockney, visits to Freud’s studio by Neil MacGregor and Frank Auerbach, and Freud painting Queen Elizabeth II. A number of Dawson’s photographs of Freud then appeared in 2006 in the book Freud at Work.
Dawson is represented by Marlborough Fine Art in London.
Last update 2021-08-06