David Fulford is a photographer, designer and artist based in West Yorkshire, UK.
Primarily his practice provides a supporting role to artists, creative enterprise, schools and community groups, trading as Black Hill Creative.
His playful approach led to self-initiated experiments in a number of creative technologies including web-design, sound, electronics, fabrication and print media.
Of late these self-directed projects have focused primarily on photographic practice, including silver gelatin printing, creative lighting and zine publishing.
Particular interests include portraiture, edgeland landscapes. documentary/still-life and assembling performative studio-based studies.
EXHIBITIONS
2023
2023
2022
2021
2019
2016
Glasgow Gallery of Photography
Holmfirth Artweek, invited artist
Sculpture Lounge Summer Show
Cupola Gallery w/ Jamie Frost
Sculpture Lounge
Artsmith, Derby
RECENT EXPERIENCE
Black Hill Creative – Studio founded 2018
Sculpture Lounge Ltd – co-director
Biography
b. 1973 Derby, England
Having learnt the basics of film photography, aged 17 David went on to study Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University where he developed a strong interest in sound, technology and electromagnetic radiation.
After graduating in 1999, he spent a year or so endeavouring to build a sustainable creative practice in Glasgow. While this was creatively and professionally rewarding (securing technician roles with Transmission Gallery and the CCA) financial pressures lead to a move to Huddersfield, Yorkshire where David has resided since.
10 further years of dead-end jobs and abandoned projects were left behind upon the birth of his son in 2009 and as time became more of a luxury, photography became a primary creative outlet.
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A hugely inconsistent and unfocussed overthinker, David’s infrequent and fleeting brushes with clarity keep him bound to a futile pursuance of creative illumination.