David Thorpe will show groups of sculptures, screens, drawings and an intricate collage, made of grass, wood, leather and Formica, that simultaneously open up and close off the viewer from the world.

Thorpe’s work is currently on view in The British Art Show 6, a touring group exhibition of British contemporary art that opened at BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England, this September and will travel to other venues in the UK. Earlier this year Thorpe’s work was included in Desire Worlds – New Romance in the Art of the Present, at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. In 2004 Thorpe had a one-person exhibition at the Tate Britain, London, as a part of the Art Now series, and published an artist book A Rendezvous with my Friends of Liberty with Revolver, Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Thorpe’s work was included in 2004’s Into My World: Recent British Sculpture, at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Drawing Now: Eight Propositions at the Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York in 2002. Upcoming exhibitions include solo shows at the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts in 2006, and at the Camden Arts Centre, London that will travel to the Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland in 2007.