David John ScarboroughAbout
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I am a British-Australian artist based in Charnwood, East Midlands, UK. My practice navigates the desire lines between technology, ecology, and music, drawing from autobiography, heritage and natural history. I create environments that integrate multidimensional narratives, visuals, and sounds to explore the knotty relationships between language and land. From video games set in underground forests to visual albums crafted from samples and stock footage, each project functions as a living archive that reimagines a more generous British folk tradition.

EXHIBITIONS / ONLINE
    2026 
    Earth-Stepper → Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth, UK
    2025 
    Hybrid Realities Lab 2 → New Art City, INTL
    Paint By Style Sheet → Phoenix, Leicester, UK
    Worship The WIP → Grpahic Deisgn, Glasgow, UK
    2024 
    Dead Wood Burning → Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire, UK / INTL
    2023 
    Our Common Mercies with Ursula Rose Rae → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK
    Xylophobia with Ama Dogbe → Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire, UK / INTL
    2022 
    Screwed Black Gospel Notes → Kiln House, Charnwood, UK & YouTube, INTL
    2021
    White Castle → YouTube, INTL
    2019
    A Mountain Is A Mountain → Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough, UK
    2019
    Sleeper, Giant → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK
    2016
      Get Fit → Turf Projects, Croydon, UK
      2015
        Dekay & Ruyne → Nottingham Castle Museum and Gallery, UK
        Gustatory Delights with Colette Griffin → Lace Market Gallery, Nottingham, UK
        2014
        • Records Ruin The Landscape → BACKLIT, Nottingham, UK
        2013
        • EM13 → Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
        • Free Range → The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK

        RESIDENCIES2026
          AA2A → Nottingham Trent University, UK
          2025
            Hybrid Realities Lab 2 → Six Minutes Past Nine, INTL

            2019
              The Studio → Loughborough University Enterprise Network, UK

              2013
                Graduate Residency → Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK

              PUBLICATIONS2022
                A Million Objects → The Leicestershire Collection, UK

                2020
                  Gold Resin Onyx → Self-published, Charnwood, UK

                  2019
                    Axe Man Shadow Land → Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough, UK

                    2018
                      Sleeper, Giant → Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough, UK

                    PRESS2026 David John Scarborough: Earth-Stepper → Corridor8
                    Interview with Sarah White → YAC | Young Artists in Conversation
                    2023
                      Fermynwoods Focus → Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Podcast
                    2021
                      Earthling by Modern Painters, New Decorators → ArtReview
                    TALKS2024
                      Dead Wood Burning → Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Podcast,  INTL

                    2020
                    • Collaboration In An Age Of Individuality → Creative Leicestershire, UK
                    • 2019
                    • It Takes A Region To Raise An Artist → Leicester University, UK

                    AWARDS / GRANTS
                      2025 
                      Hybrid Realities Bursary → Near Now, Nottingham, UK
                      2024 
                      Folk Threads: Project Grant → Arts Council England, UK
                      2023 
                    Designing A Dynamic Arts Community: Project Grant → Arts Council England, UK
                      2022 
                      Signal Symbol Sign: Project Grant → Arts Council England, UK
                      2021
                      Archive Fever: Project Grant → Arts Council England, UK