Discipline
Architectural / Monumental / Relief
Conceptual
Installation / Land / Site-specific
Political/Religious
Water
Material
Found Objects
Granite/Marble/Stone
Mixed media
Region
London
Biography
David Jacobson’s sculpture, prints and drawings have been exhibited in the U.K., U.S.A., Italy, France, Switzerland, Japan, Spain and South Africa. His work is represented in public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Basler Afrikanischer Bibliotek, the Modena Museum of Art and Castello dei Nelson in Sicily.
His public commissions include Emergent Property for the British Consulate General and British Council in Hong Kong made for the handover of the colony to China in 1997; Spring Celebration for the Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum in the Royal Pump Rooms and more recently The Pudding, Intervention at Cockshaw Burn, a 100 meter long intervention, part of the flood defences and reinstatement of the river in Hexham Northumberland, with the Environment Agency and Northern Arts.
He has won awards for both his sculpture and prints and his work is included in numerous publications.
He works from London and Italy.
Earth Lung by David Jacobson - As Part of the 'Time Space Existence' Installation - 22 May 2021 – 21 November 2021 Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora, Giardini della Marinaressa, Venice – Italy As we all know by now, Covid-19 is a virus that primarily affects the lower respiratory tract, our lungs. During the lockdown, it has been documented how in such a short time, nature has taken its spaces back, how it has started to breathe again. “Parks, gardens, and green spaces are the lungs of our cities! Since the pandemic with fewer cars, trains, boats, and airplanes it has been well documented that nature has reclaimed much of its territory. The air is cleaner, the waters clearer, and birds have returned en mass to our cities and green spaces. One could ask that for how long this will continue after lockdown ends but we can only hope that humanity has learned some lessons and nature is also more resilient.” As we are fighting against the virus which is attacking our lungs and blocking our breath, we should start doing the same for the lungs of our Earth.
Earth Lung II by David Jacobson - As Part of the 'Sculpture & Nature'' Exhibition - 21 May 2022 – 16 October 2022 The Schlossgut Schwante Sculpture Park, Schlossgut Schwante, Schlossplatz 1-3, 16727 Oberkrämer OT Schwante, Germany The Schlossgut Schwante Sculpture Park provides a rare environment to explore sculpture in Northern and Eastern Germany, located only 25 km outside of Berlin and 45 minutes from Berlin-Mitte. The sculpture park opened to the public in 2020 with its inaugural exhibition Sculpture & Nature, showing works of leading international artists including Jean Arp, Dan Graham, Björn Dahlem, Gregor Hildebrandt or Hicham Berrada. Featuring new commissions from David Jacobson and Paul McCarthy, the exhibition explores relationships between art and nature.