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DaveHilliard

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About Me

Dave Hilliard is a distinctive visual artist who creates paintings, drawings and installations with all the exuberance and anarchic energy of eighties comedy heroes 'The Young Ones'.

Born in Northampton in 1978, he graduated with a degree in printmaking from the University of Wolverhampton in 2002. He has since gone on to develop a strong style of drawing with a darkly comic vision of the booze saturated retail park that is modern Britain.

His drawings and politically mischievous installations have been exhibited in shows and events in various venues and gallery spaces including the Whitechapel gallery, 'The Others' project space in Stoke Newington, London, and Birmingham’s Custard factory gallery.

Read an interview about Dave's work HERE.

And check out his non-MySpace blog HERE
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Artists, non-artists, people who are interested in interesting things!

Heroes:

Not so much heroes as influences, but I like these creative types- Raymond Pettibon, Francisco Goya, Gustav Mertzger, The Chapman Brothers, Jasper Joffe, Egon Schiele, Bob and Roberta Smith, David Shrigley, John Lydon and PiL, Mark E Smith and The Fall, Brett Easton Ellis, J G Ballard.

My Blog

More smoking


Posted by DaveHilliard on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:21:00 PST

Silver smoke 4


Posted by DaveHilliard on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:33:00 PST

I am finally living the life I always dreamed of.

Sometimes I like to drink American beer....
Posted by DaveHilliard on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:38:00 PST

Silver smoker 3


Posted by DaveHilliard on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:37:00 PST

New picture-Silver Smoker 2

The Dave Hilliard Blog...
Posted by DaveHilliard on Sat, 31 May 2008 08:36:00 PST

New picture I cannot show you on MySpace

So I have made a new drawing, but I am not going to show it here as it does feature a penis. You may think Im being over cautious, but I know somebody who's profile was deleted for this sort of thing....
Posted by DaveHilliard on Fri, 30 May 2008 02:11:00 PST

Silver shit.

I did another drawing. This one has some silver shit in it.So click HERE to go over to my other blog and check it out....
Posted by DaveHilliard on Fri, 30 May 2008 04:30:00 PST

New picture, 29/5/08


Posted by DaveHilliard on Thu, 29 May 2008 01:38:00 PST

Two new pictures 27/05/08

I might do some more work on the Wal Mart painting. I don't do paintings very often, so Im never quite sure about the results when I do....
Posted by DaveHilliard on Tue, 27 May 2008 05:12:00 PST

My visit to the J G ballard show in Bournville, Birmingham

On Saturday I spontaneously decided to visit to go and see 'Zodiac 3000', a J. G. Ballard themed art show at the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts in Birmingham.I only became aware of Ballard's work w...
Posted by DaveHilliard on Sat, 17 May 2008 05:45:00 PST