David Musgrave

Biography

Lambda, a work of speculative fiction set in an alternate contemporary world, was published in 2022 by Europa Editions.

Recent solo exhibitions include greengrassi, London, 2018; Luhring Augustine, New York, 2014; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, 2011.

Group exhibitions include Slow Looking, Tate Britain, 2013; Tracing the Century, 2013, Tate Liverpool and mima, Middlesbrough; and The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, curated by Mark Leckey, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Nottingham Contemporary, and De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea, 2013. Studio golem was broadcast on Channel 4 in January 2013 as part of the Random Acts strand.

My most recent work encompasses drawing, photography, moving image and novel writing. Literature has provided a space to evolve my ideas in narrative form, and to test them with a new audience.

I often draw because a drawing can embody very concisely the possibilities of expression and representation, the peculiar relationship between images and things, and the potential for making and remaking worlds.

I have an open yet critical position in relation to recent developments in AI, and continue to explore its ongoing challenge to what we understand as essentially human.