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David Batchelor's work is concerned above all things with colour, a sheer delight in the myriad brilliant hues of the urban environment and underlined by a critical concern with how we see and respond to colour in this advanced technological age.

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His studio is a treasure trove piled high with an endless variety of fluorescent plastic objects - clothes pegs, fly-swatters, buckets, spades, children's toys, empty bottles of household products - found in pound shops and markets in cities the world over. He combines these everyday items with a range of light-industrial materials: steel shelving, commercial lightboxes, neon tubing, warehouse dollies, acrylics, plastics and so on to produce extraordinary installations which exalt the ordinary and celebrate the lurid and trashy whilst being, in themselves, often mesmerisingly beautiful.

Batchelor was born in Dundee in and lives and works in London. A separate exhibition of Batchelor's Monochrome Archive was also on display at Whitechapel Gallery until May Batchelor has written and edited a number of books including Concretos , The Luminous and the Grey , Found Monochromes , Colour , and Chromophobia The show was a celebration of the work of 6 artists whose focus is non-representational, materials based, and balanced between two and three dimensions.

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