'Dream Landscape'

'Dream Landscape' 1990 oil on stretched canvas: 1390 x 2300mm by David Armitage (born 1943) within a closed-corner Christopher Salmon designer frame hand-painted in black rubbed through on edges to red under paint. David Armitage says:“I listen to music as I paint: I love the musical space as it breathes and floats. At times the equivalent can be rather like painting on the sky or on water” 

Born in Tasmania in 1943 Armitage studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he lectured in life drawing and portraiture during his final year. In 1967 he moved to New Zealand with his wife Ronda and took up the post of Exhibition’s Officer at Auckland City Art Gallery, curating national and international exhibitions. He has lived in the UK since 1974 where he has continued his art practice as well as illustrating many successful children’s books, authored by his wife Ronda. Armitage has enjoyed much success, garnering respect from fellow artists and critics.  Exhibited and sold work widely, with shows in London, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Bristol, Auckland, New York and Montreal.

EXHIBITIONS: 

1968 – 1978 Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland.

1971 Palmerston North Art Gallery.

1973 Survey exhibition touring N.Z. public galleries.

1988 Beldesign, Cambridge.

1989 Quay Arts Centre, Newport; One One Nine Gallery,London.

1992 ADT College, London.

1993 Duncan Campbell Contemporary Art, London.

1994 Christ Hospital, Horsham.

1995 Atlantis, London.

1996 Mitre Gallery, Chichester; The Maltings, Farnham; The Hawth Arts Centre, Crawley.

1997 Windsor Arts Centre; Hanover Gallery, Liverpool; Seagate, Dundee; Star Gallery, Lewes; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield.

1998 Trinity Arts Centre,Tunbridge Wells.

1999 Rye Festival Artist

1999 Art 2000: Listening to Bruckner:Exhibition in Guildford Cathedral

2000 Bridgeview Office Complex, Aberdeen; Modern Artists Gallery, Oxon;
Parkview Fine Paintings, Bristol; Bishop Phillpott Gallery, Truro

2003 Steading Gallery, near Kirkudbright

2004 Modern Artists Gallery: Oxon.

2005 Trinity Arts Tunbridge Wells

2006 & 2008 The Designs Gallery, Castle Douglas

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1966-78 Many group exhibitions throughout New Zealand.

1972 Bonython Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1975 New York; Young Artists 75, USA

1991 John Gruzelier Modern and Contemporary Art, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex, England

1998/9 Rye Gallery, Star Gallery, Lewes: Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, England

1999/2000 Crossover: A Millenium Exhibition, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, England 

2001 Sussex Artists, Abbeville Festival, France; Parkview Fine Paintings, Bristol, England

2002 Bettie Morton Gallery, Brixton; Duncan and Jordanstone College, Dundee, Scotland

2003 Australian High Commission, London, England

2008 Farleys Farm Gallery, Chiddingly, East Sussex, England

2009 Oxford Union debate on conceptual art, England

2010 Modern Artists Gallery, Oxon, England

2011 Farleys Farm Gallery, Chiddingly, East Sussex, England

2012 Gallery Gora, Montreal, Canada

2013 Michael Wood Fine Art, Plymouth, England