David Spriggs

Bridging the gap between the second and third dimensions

David Spriggs’ spatial-image sculptures bridge the gap between the second and third dimensions, creating a truly immersive phenomenal experience.

David Sprigg’s work lies in a space between the 2 and 3 dimensions. He explores phenomena, space-time and movement, colour, visual systems and surveillance, the strategies and symbols of power, and the thresholds of form and perception.

“Spriggs’ work invites us to see-with what is not actually there and to move-with the constellation of what we’re beginning to see. Moving-with perception composing itself, we experience the dynamics of an object becoming spacetime. We no longer simply observe – we are moved by the experience of watching, and we move with it. We note the contours but feel the colors. We see the lines but feel the rhythm. We see-with the becoming-work. This is the activity of plastic dynamism expressing itself through the emergence of a body-image constellation.”

– Erin Manning. ‘Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy’ MIT Press

Installation view: Vision II, 2017, Messums Wiltshire, England, U.K. Image courtesy of David Spriggs.
Installation view: Gold, 2017, Woodstreet Art Galleries, Pittsburgh and Arsenal Montreal. Image courtesy of David Spriggs.
Installation view: Beyond Borders, (Group show) 2019, Unit London. Image courtesy of Unit London.
Installation view: Stratachrome Green, 2010, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal. Image courtesy of David Spriggs.
Installation view: Vision II, 2017, Messums Wiltshire, England, U.K. Image courtesy of David Spriggs.
Installation view: Beyond Borders, (Group show) 2019, Unit London. Image courtesy of Unit London.
Installation view: Gold, 2017, Woodstreet Art Galleries, Pittsburgh and Arsenal Montreal. Image courtesy of David Spriggs.
Installation view: Divided Power, 2017, Kraftwerk Berlin, Berlin Atonal, Germany. Image courtesy of David Spriggs.
Installation view: Stratachrome Green, 2010, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal. Image courtesy of David Spriggs.

Works

David Spriggs

Gravity Series

2019

Acrylic on layered plexiglass in plexiglass display case with light box.

81 x 20 x 84 cm
32 x 8 x 33 in

Edition of up to 10

David Spriggs

Vision Series

2019

Acrylic on layered plexiglass in plexiglass display case with light box.

81 x 20 x 84 cm
32 x 8 x 33 in

Edition of up to 10

David Spriggs

Regisole-The Sun King

2015

Ink, layered transparent film, display case and lighting, springs.

479 x 185 x 580 cm

Edition of 4

David Spriggs

Antimatter

2018

Silkscreen on 8 sheets of tempered glass, wall brackets.

124.5 x 124.5 x 15.2 cm

David Spriggs

Yellow

2012

Black acrylic, transparent film, display case, springs, eyelets, steel rod, lighting.

92 x 92 x 30 cm

David Spriggs

Stratachrome Gold

2017

Yellow acrylic paint on layered sheets of transparent film, triangular gold colour structure, lighting units.

1100 x 304 x 72 cm

David Spriggs

Epoch

2018

Layered anodised aluminium.

4.8 x 3 x 1.8 m

David Spriggs

Antithesis

2017

Painted layers of transparent sheet in lit display case.

56 x 22 x 55 cm
22 1/8 x 8 5/8 x 21 5/8 in

David Spriggs

Transcendent/Immanent

2008

Acrylic on transparent sheets in display case.

106 x 76 x 33 cm

David Spriggs

Vision

2010

Acrylic paint on layered sheets of transparent film, display case, springs, lighting.

264 x 315 x 91 cm

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Biography

David Spriggs is known internationally for his unique large-scale 3D ephemeral installations that layer transparent images, a technique he pioneered in 1999. Spriggs is currently based in Vancouver, BC. He was born in 1978 in Manchester, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1992. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal, and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University in Vancouver. He undertook student residencies at Central St. Martin’s College of Art in London, England (1999) and the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany (2006). He has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums such as Messums Wilthsire in the UK, Arsenal Montreal in Canada, the Prague Biennial 5 in the Czech Republic, the Louis Vuitton Gallery in Macau, and at the Sharjah Biennal 9 in the UAE. His work can be found in many prestigious collections such as in Hotel VIC Hong Kong, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec.