David Wightman

Who is David Wightman?

David Wightman is an English painter known for his abstract and landscape acrylic paintings using collaged wallpaper. He graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2003.

In 2003, while still studying at the Royal College of Art, Meredith Etherington-Smith, former editor of Art Review, said of his short-listed piece: "David Wightman frames his picture perfect Swiss postcard in the cool collateral of a Ben Nicholson modernist painting".

In 2009, he showed a large site-specific painting: Behemoth at Cornerhouse, Manchester and went on to exhibit with Sumarria Lunn Gallery at The Hempel, London. In 2010-11 he was one of two artists selected for the Berwick Gymnasium Arts Fellowships - a six-month residency supported by English Heritage and Arts Council England. The residency took place in a Nicholas Hawksmoor designed former military gymnasium in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. In 2013, he was commissioned by HOUSE Festival in Brighton to make a site-specific painting for a disused pavilion on Brighton's seafront. The piece is the largest painting by the artist to date.