King Street Gallery on William welcomes UK painter David Pearce. David exhibited in a 2023 group exhibition at King Street Gallery, Aliferous: Having Wings, with Genevieve Carroll and Angela Malone. David will have his first highly anticipated solo exhibition with the gallery in February 2025.
David Pearce was born in 1963. He lives and works between Padstow in Cornwall, UK and various locations in Australia. David takes his inspiration from the St Ives School of painting, a movement which came to prominence internationally after WWII. His unique primitive style invokes the limited palette landscape traditions of Modern British Painting.
Showing since 1987 Pearce’s work has been exhibited in Europe and the USA; with recent exhibitions at Padstow Gallery [2022], Cricket Fine Art [2019] and the John Moores Painting Prize [2018].
Pearce has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, with work included in the permanent collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum. David Pearce is represented in the United Kingdom by Padstow Gallery, Cricket Fine Art and Jenna Burlingham.
“My work explores the notion of the ephemeral and the fragility of existence in both a personal and wider context. In these fast-paced virtual times, I paint as it feels innate, constant, tangible. I try to work with a primitive directness, using seemingly simple compositions and just enough complexity and confusion to hold the attention. The paintings are deliberately intimate in size, with no ego or grandeur. I celebrate the innocence of awkward lines and nervous tension.” – David Pearce, 2018
2022
Padstow Gallery, Padstow, Cornwall 2021 The Table Hay, Hay on Wye, Wales 2019 Cricket Fine Art, Chelsea, London 2017 Padstow Fine Art, Cornwall
2016
Cadogan Contemporary, Chelsea, London 2014 Padstow Fine Art, Cornwall
2013
Stonewall Gallery, Berwickshire
2011
Cadogan Contemporary, Chelsea, London 2010 Newcraftsman Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall 2009 Padstow Fine Art, Padstow, Cornwall 2007 Aldeburgh Gallery, Suffolk
2006
Edgarmodern, Bath, Avon
2004
Padstow Contemporary, Cornwall
2003
Cadogan Contemporary, Chelsea, London 2001 Alex Gerrard Fine Art, Sussex
1999
Middle Street Gallery, Padstow, Cornwall 1998 Bolton Street Gallery, London
1996
Gallery Pic Vanderdonk, Amsterdam, Holland 1995 Salthouse Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
1993
Salthouse Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
1991
Padstow Contemporary, Padstow, Cornwall
1989
Padstow Contemporary, Padstow, Cornwall
2023
Aliferous: Having Wings King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW
2022
Portland Gallery, London Art Fair
2021
Jenna Burlingham Fine Art, Hampshire
2020
John Martin Gallery, London
2019
RA Summer Exhibition
London Cricket Fine Art, London
2018
John Moores Painting Prize, Liverpool
2017
RA Summer Exhibition
2016
RA Summer Exhibition
London Cadogan Contemporary, London
2015
Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge
British Art Fair, London
2015-21
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Padstow Gallery, Cornwall
Whitespace Gallery, Devon
2015-17
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London
2014-16
Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall
2013
Marion Harris Fine Art, Park Avenue, New York
Stonewall Gallery, Berwickshire
2012
Accidental Genius, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
2011-16
London Art Fair, Islington
London Cadogan Contemporary, London
2009
Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Stockbridge
2008
The Discerning Eye
2007-23
Padstow Fine Art
2007
Aideburgh Gallery [Foss Fine Art], Aldeburgh, Suffolk
2006
Edgarmodern, Bath
Padstow Contemporary Art Gallery, Cornwall
2005
Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London
Edgarmodern, Bath
2004
Waterhouse and Dodd, Cork Street, London
Marion Harris Gallery, London
Thompsons Gallery, London
2003
Cadogan Contemporary, London
The Intruit Show, 846, Chicago
Marion Harris Gallery, New York
Blue Monkey Gallery, Cornwall
2001
Alex Gerrard Fine Art, East Sussex
2000
Paul Edelstein Gallery Memphis, Tennessee
1998
Bolton Street Gallery, London
1996
Gallery Pim Vanderdonk, Amsterdam
1992
Hanover Gallery, Liverpool
1998-2022
Newcraftsman Gallery, St Ives
Anthony Pettullo Collection
Idle Rocks
Milwaukee Art Museum, Permanent Collection
Rick Stein Restaurants
Tate Gallery London, “Painted Wine Box” In Collaboration with Chateau Civrac and Tate Modern
Warbertons
