David Finnigan

Born: 1964, York, England

David Finnigan studied fine art at Falmouth School of Art, specialising in painting. Since he graduated in 1988, his work has been exhibited widely and is held in private and corporate collections nationally and internationally.

David Finnigan’s work pursues a cool, precise but painterly realism as a way to see the world with deliberate neutrality, stripping away sentiment so that composition, light and surface can speak.

As well as using traditional drawing methods, he sometimes builds complex virtual 3D scenes from sketches. He “photographs” them via the 3D rendering process and then paints the result as if it were a real place. This creates an image that has a documentary quality but in fact never existed. In this way, he reframes everyday urban or suburban ephemera and architectural elements that test where representation ends and invention begins.

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