About the artist

David James Grinly’s work is about the photographic - using photography as a central orienting medium his practice expands into painting, writing and music.

David works as a lecturer in Critical Studies and as a Research Associate, and worked for ten years as a photographer. His approach balances technical understanding with theoretical and philosophical insight, one being as important to his practice as the other.

Defining his work via a series of balances, contradictions and negations.

“Theoretical rather than conceptual, theological rather than therapeutic, ethical and legal rather than logical or political, and metaphysical rather than epistemological.”, and describes the central themes of his practice as “photos, faith and love” - David James Grinly