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Join us for this performance art piece by David Sherry, as part of Still, We Gather about: folding your arms, meta-introductions, social restriction, checking out, death, comedy, dog owners, delusion, margarine, sunsets, success and café chains.

“I am influenced by social interaction and observing ordinary behaviour. Many everyday interactions become a source for my work. Drawing and writing are important starting points, incorporating different influences and experiences. Performing, drives much of my work, using the energy of a live event to push a comedy routine without a punchline. Comedy and comedians are a source of inspiration.

Growing up in Northern Ireland, has a large bearing on my thinking, as an artist. Every purposeful experience becomes abstracted within my work, forming a series of real and surreal moments in succession.
I am interested in arts’ effect on everyday reality and what can be learned from these interventions. My aim is to continually develop a creative process that critiques, questions and reassess contemporary experience. My studio practice interests encompass: routines, pattern of social expectation, etiquette, humour in art / stand-up comedy, politics and environmentalism.”
-David Sherry

David Sherry graduated with an MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2000 and a BA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster Belfast in 1997.

He will make a multi video project at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, Feb 2026. In 2024 he performed at P-ART-Y Kristiansand Norway, Performance Festival. Recent projects include a performance at The Old Hairdressers Glasgow, 2024. Voices in Buildings, Edinburgh, 2024. Stereo Glasgow, 2024. The Revelator research symposium Glasgow, 2024. Art Night Dundee 2023. Performances at IMMA Dublin, for ‘Outdoors’ in 2023. In 2022 he was commissioned by De Warande Belgium, to make a new performance film. In 2021 he was awarded a Climate Change Commission by Scene Stirling. In May 2020 he undertook a residency at Findhorn Bay Arts.

Recent exhibitions at The Hilbert Raum Berlin 2018 and The Golden Thread Belfast for the Belfast International Festival 2018. Performance, Das Dritte Land, Kulturforum Berlin at the Korean Garden, 2018. Recent performances at: Art Late Edinburgh Art Festival, Platform Arts Glasgow for Outskirts, Look Again Festival in Aberdeen. In 2016 he showed at the Liverpool Biennial. Performing at the Cabaret Voltaire Zurich for Manifesta 11 in 2016. Performances at De Player Rotterdam and Het Bos Antwerp 2017.

Solo exhibitions at Outpost Norwich, Summerhall Edinburgh, Catalyst Arts Belfast; Villa Concordia Bamberg Germany, Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Jack Hanley San Francisco 2005 and Tramway.

Selected group exhibitions including ‘Generation’ at the Kelvingrove Glasgow, ‘RIFF’ Baltic 39 Newcastle, Film and video at BBC Scotland, ‘Grin and Bear It’ at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork and ‘One fine morning in May’ at GAK Bremen. In 2003, he was selected to represent Scotland at the 50th Venice Biennale and his work is held in many collections including the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art.