“The key to a really successful sculpture is to catch that little bit of magic that gets you in the stomach and makes you breathe in. I think the essence is to catch that energy and feeling of something about to happen and leaves you, the viewer, with anticipation.”
David’s work in recent years has focussed on commemorating significant moments in history for Britain. The D Day memorial at Gold Beach, commissioned by the Normandy Memorial Trust was unveiled in 2021, and the ‘Mancity Legends’ at the main entrance to the Etihad Stadium commemorating the golden age of the football club’s success was unveiled in 2023. Both of these sculptures hold in them a passion and vitality that immortalise those chapters in history they depict. These public sculptures unify and connect those people who pilgrimage to see them on their site-specific grounds, they instil into those who gaze up at them a sense of pride and inspiration. The effervescent spirit and dynamism they give is a testament to David’s ability to understand the human form and capture those important historical moments.
Other than his numerous public commissions, David’s figurative artwork has been exhibited worldwide in galleries and in prestigious private collections. He produces exquisite small scale maquettes alongside their monumental counterparts The way he approaches the very first steps of creating is in a three dimensional way. It echoes his early memory of making objects as a very young child building models of people and objects in plasticine.
