David Haines

Based on images sourced from the internet, David Haines uses painting, drawing and video to interrogate the male body, queer performativity and the production of images of desire. He actively examines digital identities, online communities, contemporary myths and the indexical nature of drawing itself. In his Man Reading Messages portrait series, he has drawn material from a live sex website and paints the models as young men looking at their screens, possibly at their own image, while in Still Life with Flyer he reproduces advertising flyers for gay and trans parties and nightclubs. In Your Fluffer [Fluffer: a person employed on a pornographic film set to ensure that male actors are kept aroused] and Self Portrait with Cutout and Dating App Profiles, he associates his image with the technologies of the self that are involved in the online construction of the homoerotic identity.

Biography

David Haines was born in Nottingham and he lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied at Camberwell School of Art, London and The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. He works mainly with drawing, painting and video. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Skin’s Gaze, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (2020) and Two Way Mirror, Tyneside Cinema Gallery, Newcastle (2017). Selected recent group exhibitions include: Drawing Attention – Emerging British Artists, British Museum, London (2022) and A Slice Through the World, The Drawing Room, London and Modern Art Oxford (2018). Publications include: Publications in which his work is featured include Vitamin D2, published by Phaidon; Drawing People, published by Thames and Hudson. He was awarded the Refresh Irinox Prize at the Disegni section of Artissima Turin (2017) and the Jeanne Oosting Prize (2012).

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