Strawberry Reprise 2021 Special Limited Edition Screenprint exclusively for Silver Pride UK 2021 In July 2021, David Platts was commissioned by the organisers of Silver Pride to create a series of limited edition prints to commemorate the event in 2021. This image was first produced by the artist in 1967 as an homage to The Beatles song “Strawberry Fields Forever” […]
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illustrated: Painting 442 1997-2000 David Platts: De Profundis – Sheridan Russell Gallery, 16 Crawford Street, London W1H 1BS, 2 – 27 October 2007 As the title of the exhibition suggests, these are indeed works that have come ‘from the very depths of the soul’. After a period of some five years in which he suffered the trials and tribulations of […]
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illustrated: Rhapsody 1989 ARTS EXTRA – Galleries Section David Platts – Grape Lane Gallery, Low Petergate, York Until August 30th For the general viewer, abstract art is the most difficult to comprehend. In an age of visual sophistication offered through television, videos and cinema, not to mention newspapers and magazines, the images we see are often powerful, sometimes poignant, often […]
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illustrated: Elergy 1989 David Platts: ‘Works on Paper’ – One person show at the Grape Lane Gallery, York 1989 Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of painting, people have to understand… People […]
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illustrated: Fifteenth Variation 1988 Enigmatic Variations by David Platts – Grape Lane Gallery, York, June 1988 A Programme Note: It is preferable not to seek to ‘understand’ these paintings in an intellectual sense any more than one would expect to understand a Beethoven Symphony or a Chopin piano concerto. Allow the eye the freedom one would willingly accord the ear […]
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illustrated: East Ings 12 1986 David Platts: Pastels and Watercolours – Quinton Green Fine Art, Cork Street, London, June 1987 Quinton Green’s final exhibition is devoted to David Platts, a brilliant colourist, and will run from Wednesday 3rd June to Friday 26th June 1987. David Platts has a wonderful sense of colour and balance. He takes what Nature has given […]
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illustrated: The artist seated in front of Nimbus 1980-81 in 1981 Artist’s statement, 1981 It is not true that the world of the visual arts and especially of painting, possesses a unique language of its own. It is therefore both inappropriate and superfluous for the artist to write about it, as the work must be allowed to speak for itself. […]
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illustrated: Two broken eggs and a rainbow, 1973-74 Exhibitions – Merete Bates writing in the Guardian December 12 1975 (snippet)… David Platts’s visual association of an egg and a rainbow, for all its strangeness, so swiftly suggests potency to the mind that it is difficult to understand why it has not been made before. His pastels, at the Vision Gallery, […]
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illustrated: Strawberry Painting 17 1972 David Platts: One person show – Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield 1974 For the second exhibition in the Upstairs Gallery at the Mappin, we are showing a small selection of the recent work of a young designer and lecturer David Platts. This series of “strawberry paintings” was produced from 1969 to 1974. Several factors governed David […]
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illustrated: David Platts with Strawberry Painting 1 at the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield in 1974 David Platts – One person show – Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield 1974. ‘Letter to the Public’ by Margaret Anderson It is the artist who, gathering his thoughts, ideas, experiments and experiences together, gives us a refined visual result. What, I have asked myself, is the […]
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