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SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2000 The Decorating Business, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada. 2003 A Factory As It Might Be or The Hall Of Flowers, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The Hall of the Modern, The Economist, London, UK presented by the Contemporary Art Society. 2004 Useless Work Versus Useless Toil, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2005 Morris in Jaipur: The work of Art in the Context of Hand-made Reproduction, Mandawa Haveli, Jaipur, part of Jaipur International Festival and The Queens Gallery, The British Council, New Delhi, India. 2006 Art into Everyday Life, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. Smash the Bourgeoisie! Victory to the Decorating Business! Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2007 The Rotting Fruits of Revolution. Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto 2008 A Miniature Retrospective and Rhythm 69, Jugendstilsenteret/Kunstmuseet Kube, Alesund, Norway. 2009 Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2010 The Morris Kitsch Archive, Delaware Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. 2013 David Mabb / Henrik Schrat, LoBe, Berlin, Germany. Regime Change Begins at Home, William Morris Gallery, London, UK. 2014 Announcer, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, UK. 2015 Announcer, William Morris Gallery, London, UK 2016 About Two Worlds, Handel Street Projects, London. UK 2017 Rise Up! Nunns Yard, Norwich, UK

1 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2000 Vague but True, Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark touring to Arnolfini, Bristol and Real ArtSpace, Limerick, Ireland and Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK. 2001 East of Eden, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK Moving, 72 Balls Pond Road, London, UK Critical Video Lounge, York City Art Gallery, York as part of SightSonic Enter, Villa Kunstsiftung Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 2002 Sidewinder, Centre for International Modern Art Gallery, Calcutta, touring to Habitat Centre, New Delhi, and Coomaraswarmy Hall, Mumbai, India. Showhouse, Pittshanger Manor and Gallery, London, UK Pattern Crazy, Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK Blow up your TV, York City Art Gallery, York, UK as part of SightSonic 2002. Fabric: Reinterpreting The House, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK Critical Home Video, Artspace, Peterborough, Canada touring to Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand and Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada. Further Up In The Air, Linosa Close, Liverpool, UK as part of the Liverpool Biennale. 2003 Fine Arts, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy. Science Fiction, Double Feature, Margaret Street Gallery, Birmingham, UK Transmission: Portfolio 2, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK Sample, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, UK touring to the Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands and Hall Place, Bexley, UK 2004 Wish You Were Here Part 2, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, UK (with Paul Noble). Art Futures 2004, London, Organised by the Contemporary Art Society, UK. The Sneeze, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens, Greece touring to Iziko

2 South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Durban Art Gallery, Albany History Museum, Grahamstown, Substation, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa and Reed Gallery, Cincinnati, USA. Spotlight on the Collection, David Mabb ‘Fruit’, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada. Art Textiles 3, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery touring to Edinburgh City art Centre, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby Museum and Art Gallery, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire, Harley Gallery, Worksop, Devon, Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, UK. Inter… Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK. 2005 There is Always an Alternative, Temporarycontemporary, London and The International 3, Manchester, UK Gallery Artists, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Transmission Portfolio, Haus Am Lutzowplatz, Berlin, Germany and Redux, London, UK. Morris in Jaipur, Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing, Amber, Jaipur. Turn to the Left, 291 Gallery, London, UK. Ex Roma, APT Gallery, London, UK. 2006 Modern Lovers, Three Colt Gallery, London, UK. John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK part of the Liverpool Biennial. Unwrapped! Cuming Museum, London, UK 2007 New Recent Additions to the Art Collection, Paisley Museum and Art Galleries. Paisley, UK. Dialogues, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Menage, St Petersburg. 2008 Commodity Form, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast and The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland. Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. 2009 Commodity Form, part of 4x4, Four Galleries, Four Exhibitions, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK. Mongrel Love, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

3 2010 The Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. An Exhibition of Proposals for a Socialist Colony, Eldorado Ballroom at Project Row Houses, Houston, USA. Organised by Skydive Office of Cultural Affairs. Wallpaper, The Cuming Museum, London, UK. 'When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever' Margaret Street 125th Anniversary Exhibition, BIAD Margaret Street, Birmingham, UK Inspired by Morris, William Morris Gallery, London, UK. 2011 Utopia Ltd, Wexford Art Centre and the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland. Simulacrum, Moon Gallery, Hong Kong. I Level, Katzman Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada Serial Pursuits, Nature Morte Berlin, Germany. 2012 An Unregarded Art: Stylized Nature from the Permanent Collection, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Come Together: New acquisitions, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. Through Disobedience We Progress, part of ‘Glad Tidings of Struggle and Strife: A history of protest Christmas Cards’, Newport Art Gallery, UK. Bed Peace, for ‘Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde, Dreamers of Dreams’, Tate Britain, London, UK. 2013 The Difference Loom, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Ornament and Crime, Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York, USA. 2014 Refined Linen, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada. You've Really Got a Hold On Me, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Wallpaper- Artist’s Interior Worlds, London Print Studio, part of London Design Festival, London, UK.

4 Who Thinks the Future, Lewisham Art House, part of Artlicks and Deptford X, London, UK. The Social Bases of Abstraction, Updown Gallery, Ramsgate, UK. /Seconds, Sharjah Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE. Mr and Mrs Andrews, Transition Gallery, London, UK. 2015 Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, UK. Tolerance – Forbearance, 2nd International Bodrum Biennial, Turgutreis Sevket Sabanci Art and Culture Center, Turgutreis, Turkey. 2016 Material Nuclear Culture, KARST, Plymouth, UK The Gardener Digs in Another Time, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester RHA Open Studio - A Conversation on Drawing, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland Perpetual Uncertainty / Contemporary Art in the Nuclear Anthropocene, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden touring to Z33, Hasselt, Belgium and Konsthalle, Malmö, Sweden. Buffet d'art, Ambika P3, London, UK 2017 Public View, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK #WorldsUpsideDown, Firstsite, Colchester, UK Fellowship is Heaven: Sixty Years of The William Morris Society, Kelmscott Coach House, London, UK

CURATING 2000 Problems of Everyday Life, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK with Don Bury, Isobel Chacon, Volker Eichelman, Kevin Francis Gray, Robert Harper Jones, Yasu Ishige, Alison Jones, Lynne Marsh, Andrew Olssen and Victoria Putler. 2001 Critical Video Lounge, York City Art Gallery, York, UK as part of SightSonic, with K R Buxey, Volker Eichelmann and Ruth Mclennan, Mark Harris and Pete Lloyd Lewis, Janet Hodgson, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, David Mabb, Johannes Maier and Angus Wyatt. 2002 Blow up your TV, York City Art Gallery, York, UK as part of SightSonic

5 2002, (curated with Janet Hodgson) with Amanda Beech, Don Bury, K R Buxey, Volker Eichelmann / Jonathan Faiers / Roland Rust, Christoph Girardet, Janet Hodgson, Pete Lloyd Lewis, David Mabb, Sheena Macrae, Matthias Müller, Abigail Reynolds, Paul Rooney, Mark Wallinger, Andy Warhol. Critical Home Video, Artspace, Peterborough, Canada touring to Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand and Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada with Don Bury, K R Buxey, Volker Eichelmann and Ruth Maclennan, Mark Harris and Peter Lloyd Lewis, Janet Hodgson, Yasu Ishige, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, David Mabb, Sheena Macrae, Johannes Maier, Kate Smith, Angus Wyatt. 2004 William Morris, “ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich” an exhibition by David Mabb, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. 2005 Death is Part of the Process? Void, Derry, NI with Jane Harris, Gerard Hemsworth, Kapitza, Bashir Makhoul, Pam Skelton, Annie Whiles. 2011 Utopia Ltd. Wexford Art Centre and the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland (curated with Mary-Ruth Walsh) with Blaise Drummond, Brendan Earley, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, David Mabb, Lizi Sanchez and Mary-Ruth Walsh.

CATALOGUES/BOOKS 2001 Marnie Fleming David Mabb: The Decorating Business, Steve Edwards, The Trouble with Morris, Matthew Higgs, 20 Questions in The Decorating Business Oakville Galleries, Ontario. 2002 Steve Edwards, Gerard Hemsworth, Suhail Malik, Peter Nagy, Alka Pandy, Sidewinder, CIMA Gallery, Calcutta. Carol McNicoll and Jacqueline Poncelet, Pattern Crazy, Crafts Council Gallery, London. David Mabb, Critical Home Video, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. Steve Edwards, The Trouble with Morris , David Mabb, Some

6 Introductory Notes On My Morris Works, in The Journal of William Morris Studies, Volume XV No1. 2003 David Mabb, Critical Home Video, Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario. David Mabb Spring, Fine Arts 2002-2003, The British School at Rome, London. Polly Leonard, Art of the Stitch and Sample, Embroiderers Guild, London. David Mabb, Further Up In The Air, Further A Field, Liverpool. James Patten, A Factory as It Might be or The Hall of Flowers, David Mabb, Introductory notes on A Factory as It Might be or The Hall of Flowers, Colin Mooers, Dialectics at a Standstill: The Art of David Mabb, in A Factory as It Might be or The Hall of Flowers, The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Science Fiction Double Feature, Aas, Birmingham. 2004 Steve Edwards, The Colonisation of Utopia, Caroline Arscott, Four Walls: Morris and Ornament in William Morris, David Mabb, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester. Arttextiles 3, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery. Shirley MacWilliam, Inter… Interessay, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston David Mabb, Furthermore … ‘a book of proposals’ Proposal for The Linosa Close Transitional Monument, Further A Field, Liverpool. David Mabb, Pilot:1 Doubleplusgood Books, London. David Mabb, Transmission: Speaking and Listening, Ornament and Utility, Sheffield Hallam University and Site Gallery, Sheffield. JJ Charlesworth, Wish You Were Here, Waygood Gallery and Studios, Northumbria University Fine Art Press. 2005 David Mabb, Notes on William Morris in Jaipur: The Work of Art in the Context of Hand-made Reproduction, Peter Nagy, Mabb takes Morris to Jaipur: The Whirligig of Influence in William Morris in Jaipur: The Work of Art in the Context of Hand-made Reproduction, British Council and Nature Morte, New Delhi

7 David Mabb, Two series of paintings: Elegies to the Third International and Unrealised Projects Series in There is Always an Alternative Dave Beech and Mark Hutchinson, London. David Mabb, Pilot:2 Doubleplusgood Books, London. 2006 David Mabb, Art into Everyday Life, Simon Rees, Fraying at the Edges: Carpets and Paintings by David Mabb, Lolita Jablonskiene A Brief History of the “Art into Everyday Life” Movement, in Mabb, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius. David Mabb The Paintings of Yujin Kang, in Between, Yujin Kang, Kumho Museum, Seoul. The Sneeze, essays by Taru Elfving, Nelson Henricks, Mary Anne Kearns and Edward Sumner, Article Press, Birmingham. Modern Lovers, essays by Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Sala-manca, Avi Pitchon, London. John Moores 24, National Museums Liverpool. 2007 Dialogues, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Menage, St Petersburg. 2008 David Mabb on Colin Darke’s Capital Paintings and Colin Darke on David Mabb’s Rhythm 69, “Commodity Form”. Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. David Mabb, Pilot: Pilot, London 2010 David Mabb, Morris/Fruit, Rodchenko/Triple Peaks, in Gill Saunders, “Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture”, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and KWS Publishers, Chicago and London. David Mabb, Hijack: Morris Dialectically, “William Morris in the Twenty- First Century” edited by Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, published by Peter Lang. 2011 David Mabb, Green Engineering Object, cover of Lisa Fishman, “Current”, Parlor Press, South Carolina. David Mabb, Morris/Honeysuckle, Rodchenko/Hard Currency, in Diana Newall and Christina Unwin, “The Chronology of Pattern: Pattern in Art from the Lotus Flower to Flower Power”, A&C Black, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

8 2013 David Mabb, Art into Everyday Life, in “The Everyday of Memory: Between Communism and Post Communism” edited by Marta Rabikowska, published by Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013 ISBN 978-3-0343-0847-2 2014 David Mabb, Announcer, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, ISBN 978-1-907185-17-5 Alex Michon, Meet the Newlyweds, ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’, Transition Gallery http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/MrandMrsAndrews_meet thenewlyweds.html 2015 David Mabb, Announcer. Part of ‘Lançamento do Livro “And Painting? A pintura contemporânea em questão”’, Faculdade de Belas-Artes Da Universidade de Lisboa Michelle Weinroth, Redesigning the Beautiful, Morris, Mabb, and the Politics of Wallpaper, chapter 9 in ‘To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss: William Morris's Radicalism and the Embodiment of Dreams’ Michelle Weinroth, Paul Leduc Browne, published by McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 0773596984, 9780773596986

SELECTED REVIEWS, FEATURES, INTERVIEWS, JOURNALS 2000 Penny Fray, A surreal look at everyday problems, The Big Issue, 20 January. Gilbert Bouchard, Mabb paints a bigger picture, See Magazine, 23-29 March. Maureen Fenniak, Idiots is delightful, Vue Weekly, 23-29 March. Charles Mandel, Tantalized by touristy tea towels? Does Latitude have a show for you! Edmonton Journal, 31 March. Carol Baldwin, The Decorating Business, The Oakville Beaver, 10 October. Jennifer Malotek, Malevich meets Morris at Mabb’s solo show at the Oakville Galleries, The Medium on Line. Elaine Hujar, If the walls could only talk, The Hamilton Spectator, 10

9 November. 2002 Stephen Palmer, Showhouse, Artists Newsletter, February. Sally O'Reilly, Showhouse, Time Out, February 20-27. Charlotte Edwards, Showhouse, Art Review, March. Kate Mcintyre, Pattern Crazy, Crafts, No. 179 November/December. 2003 John Laycock Artist is stuck on wallpaper, history, The Windsor Star, 9 August. Interview with Steve Edwards, Video 1, Displaying Modern Art, Art of the 20th Century, Open University. 2004 Pete Clark, David Mabb: Ministering to the Swinish Luxury of the Rich, a-n Magazine, August. Gill Saunders, Mining Morris, The Wallpaper History Review, 2004/05. Sarah Milroy, A Morris Dance, Globe and Mail, 26th November. Lisa Andrews, William Morris – Ministering to the Swinish Luxury of the Rich, Embroidery, November/December. Peter Goddard, Getting crafty with Morris, Toronto Star, 11th December. Dave Beech, As it Might Be. The Radical Legacy of William Morris in the Work of David Mabb, Marcus Waith, David Mabb, with essays by Caroline Arscott and Steve Edwards, William Morris, The Journal of William Morris Studies Volume XVI Number I. 2005 Crafty Cuts, Grafik, January. Dave Beech, David Mabb, Untitled, Number 33 Spring. Ginnie Mahajan, Activism inspires David Mabb’s art, Hindustan Times 24th March. David Mabb, Artists and Their Art, First City, Delhi’s City Magazine, May. Rosie Miles and David Mabb, Pop Art, Modernism, and Morris: An Interview with David Mabb, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, New series 14:Spring. Gopika Nath, Re-orienting Design, William Morris in Jaipur, an Exhibition of Works, Art India, volume x issue ii, quarter ii.

10 Eileen Walsh, Weird or Wonderful Art? Daily Ireland, April 21st. Martin Herbert, What is the Alternative, Art Monthly, October. 2006 Jurgita Ludaviciene, Williamas Morrisas ir ,,Lietuvos” kino teatro, Liteiatiana Menas, 17, Vasario. Laima Kreivyte, Menas kadienybei: dizaino politika. Pokalbis su britu menininku Davidu Mabbu. Meno Dienos, Sausio 27, Nr 4 (693). Ruta Miksioniene, Modernizmo pastatai isliks kilimous, Vos Rytas, Sausio 23, No 18. Regina Statkuviene, Kilimu Rastuose - Sovietmecio Architektura, Lietuva Eliubs, Sausio 30, No 4. Ruta Miksioniene, Zinomus Viliaus pastatus btitas iamzino Lentvario Kilimuose, Sostine/Lietuvos rytas, Vasario 7, No 31. David Mabb, Lie uvis pristato parodas MC gyvai ir gerai; brit menininkas David Mabb pristato Vilni, kur suaud kilimus, Beatbox MC CAC TV 15th March. Anna Matyukhina, David Mabb in Lithuania, The William Morris Society in the United States Newsletter, Spring. Sorrel Hershberg, Art into Everyday Life in Design and Architecture, Souvenirs, British Council, Spring. Jonathan Trayner, Ornamental Paths of Least Resistance, Garageland, Issue 2. Mildos Rapkauskaites, Nostalgiski Paradoksai, Namas Ir As, Nr. 3 (77). Alice McEwan, The Rotting Fruits of Revolution: William Morris meets the Constructivists in the Work of David Mabb, Principia Dialectica, Issue No. 2 Autumn / Winter. 2007 David Mabb Miniature Retrospective, Issue 7 /seconds: sci-fi, utopia, roadside picnics. Anna Matyukhina, “Dialogues”: David Mabb’s Videos in St. Petersburg, The William Morris Society in the United States Newsletter, Winter 2007. 2008 Colin Darke and David Mabb, Commodity Form, Web TV. 7th April Michelle Weinroth. Reading Matters. David Mabb Introduction to

11 Rhythm 69. David Mabb Rhythm 69 Slideshow. Colin Darke. David Mabb's Rhythm 69 all in ‘Reading Matters’ Special Issue on William Morris, AE Canadian Aesthetics Journal, Volume 15, Fall. Gill Saunders, Commodity Form: Colin Darke, The Capital Paintings, David Mabb, Rhythm 69, Wallpaper History Review 2008. 2009 David Balzar, David Mabb, Eye Weekly, March 11 Leah Sandals, Art Is Our Homeboy, The National Post, Saturday March 14th Marnie Fleming, David Mabb: William Morris and Constructivism Meet the Marketplace, Canadian Art, March 19th. David Mabb, Notes on the Morris Kitsch Archive, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 7, Number 3, November. Lucy Chapman, 4x4: Four Galleries, Four Exhibitions, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 7, Number 3, November. 2010 Joe Lewis, This Wallpaper Isn't Killing Me: Review of David Mabb's Have Nothing in Your Houses That You Do Not Know to Be Useful, or Believe to Be Beautiful, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 8, Number 1, April. Goldsmiths: But is it Art? Dragonfly TV for BBC 4 transmitted 12th and 19th April 2010. Gail Day, Steve Edwards, David Mabb, 'What Keeps Mankind Alive?': the Eleventh International Istanbul Biennial. Once More on Art and Politics, Historical Materialism 18.4 (2010) 135–171. 2011 Edward Epstein, David Mabb, Willmington, DE. Art Papers, Jan-Feb. Henry Lydiate and David Mabb, Art and Appropriation – when does artistic freedom become copyright infringement? Artlaw TV, Artquest, London. Kitty Rogers, Utopia Ltd, Paper Visual Art Journal. Milada Burcikova, William Morris in the Twenty-First Century. Utopian Studies - Volume 22, Number 2, 2011, pp. 377-383 E-ISSN: 2154- 9648 Print ISSN: 1045-991X John Parkis, William Morris in the Twenty-First Century. The Journal of

12 William Morris studies Volume XIX Number 2 Summer 2011 pp 65-69 ISSN1756-1353 2012 Gilbert Bonifas, William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, Cercles ISSN:1292-8968 David Mabb, Morris Kitsch, The William Morris Society Newsletter, New Year. Rachel Francis, Morris reconstructed, V&A Magazine, Issue No 28 ISSN:1465-8291 2013 Howard Brad Halverson, David Mabb: Re-Signaling the Regime, Sick of the Radio, 25 April 2013, http://sickoftheradio.com/2013/04/25/david- mabb-artist/ David Mabb, Commodity as comrade: Luibov Popova – Untitled textile design on William Morris wallpaper for Historical Materialism, in ‘The Politics of Consumption’, Ephemera: theory and politics in organization. Volume 13, number 2, ISSN 2052-1499 (online) ISSN 2052-1499 (Print) May Peter Stansky, William Morris in the Twenty-First Century. Journal of Victorian Studies, Volume 55 No 4 2013 David Mabb, Elegies to the third International ‘Totem - Haunted Technologies’, /seconds: Issue 14 2013 ISSN 1751-4134 2014 David Mabb, Transitional Monument part of the ‘Agency of Unrealised Projects’, e- flux Interview with David Mabb at Focal Point Gallery, IDEA13 TV Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann, The Social Bases of Abstract Art, UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate, Abstract Critical. Larne Abse Gogarty, Announcer, Focal Point Gallery Southend, United Kingdom, 14 April-12 July 2014, Art & the Public Sphere Volume 3 Number 1. 2015 David Mabb. Interview with Brainard Carey for Yale University Radio WYBCX 21/07/2015 Emily Rosamond, The Background Speaks: David Mabb's Announcer and the Emergence of Information, Message, Edition 2.3/8

13 2016 Miranda Charalambous, David Mabb, About Two Worlds, Art Cube, February David Mabb, About Two Worlds, Salvage 3 ‘Or What’s Hell For’ May Eva Szwarc, Material Nuclear Culture, this is tomorrow – Contemporary Art Magazine, 11th August David Mabb, Protest and survive: Reclaiming William Morris from Britain’s nuclear fleet, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 20/9/16 David Mabb, A Provisional Memorial to Nuclear Disarmament. The Journal of William Morris Studies, Vol. XXII No. 1, 2016. Special Issue: ‘Morris and Utopia’ 2017 Colin Martin, About Two Words, Parenthesis 32, Spring 2017 David Mabb, William Morris and the atomic, Special Issue: ‘Commitment in Painting’, Journal of Contemporary Painting, Volume 3, Numbers 1-2, 1/4/17 ISSN 2052-6695 (Print); ISSN 2052-6709 (Online) Joan Francesc Ainaud, "A Provisional Memorial to Nuclear Disarmament", una obra d'art de David Mabb que denuncia l'armament nuclear i que reclama el desarmament del món. Beteve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSOuoFXl_Mo 18/9/17

Conferences, talks since 2000 2000 Problems of Everyday Life, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK. David Mabb, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Decorating Business, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada. 2001 In Conversation, part of “Sightsonic 2001”, York City Art Gallery, UK. Four9one, part of “Sightsonic 2001”, York City Art Gallery, UK. 2002 Open House, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata, India. David Mabb, Raider of the Lost Archive, part of “Out of the Archive”, London School of Economics, UK. Living in a Material World part of “Art Textiles 3”, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Helen Baker and Kate Smith, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, UK.

14 In Conversation, part of “Sightsonic 2002”. York Art Gallery, York, UK. 2003 David Mabb Works 1998-2002, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy. Locate and Classify: New approaches to curating the crafts, Second International Crafts Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Utility and Ornament, The Showroom, Sheffield part of “Transmission: Speaking and Listening”. Sheffield Hallam University, UK. 2004 Wish You Were Here. Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, UK. Overlap Symposium, Tihaney International Postgraduate Program, The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Tihaney, Hungary. Ministering to The Swinish Luxury of The Rich, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. An evening with David Mabb and William Morris, Wallpaper History Society, Coles, London, UK. Useful Work Versus Useless Toil, William Morris Society of Canada, Emmanuel College, Victoria University, Toronto, Canada. 2005 Enthusiasm, Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska, “Sunday Sightlines”, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK. Death is Part of the Process? Curators talk, Void, Derry, NI. Artists Talks, There is Always an Alternative, Temporary Contemporary, London, UK. Smash the Bourgeoisie! Victory to the Decorating Business! Or, William Mabb in the Work of David Morris. Plenary Lecture. “Morris in the 21st Century. The 50th Anniversary Conference of the William Morris Society”. Royal Holloway College, Surrey, UK. 2006 Smash the Bourgeoisie! Victory to the Decorating Business! Or, William Mabb in the Work of David Morris. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, UK. Art into Everyday Life as part of “My world: New Subjectivities in Design”, The British Council, The Contemporary Art Centre and The Academy of Art and Design, Vilnius, Lithuania.

15 On the Passage of A Few Patterns through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: William Mabb in the Work of David Morris 1998-2006 part of “Riffs on Pattern”, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada. David Mabb part of the “Wallpaper Study Day”, at the V&A and the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK. Thomas Demand, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK. 2007 Rhythm 69, “William Morris Research Seminar”, University of Northampton, UK. 2008 Colin Darke’s The Capital Paintings part of “Creativity and Commodity”, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Rhythm 69, Historical Materialism First North American Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada. “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”: William Morris and Kitsch. Part of “Why is everything for sale?” Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. 2009 Commodity Form, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK. William Morris and the Constructivists. What went wrong? Part of “Constructivism and the Art of Everyday Life”, Tate Modern, London. In collaboration with The Open University and the Research Forum, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. Everyday Utopias, part of Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization: Contemporary Art in Britain and Asia, Hong Ik University, Seoul. Art into Everyday Life, part of “The Ghosts of the Past: everyday life 20 years after the fall of Communism”, University of East London, UK. Allan Sekula’s The Lottery of the Sea: A Screening and Discussion. Xenos research group at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Rhythm 69’: Morris/Richter/Malevich. An everyday utopia? Part of “Is the Future Past” Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Chto delat/What is to be done? Sixth Historical Materialism Annual Conference. SOAS and Birkbeck, London, UK.

16 2010 Proposals for a Socialist Colony. Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA. Critical Realism, A Screening of Alan Sekula’s Lottery of the Sea and Symposium. CentreCATH, University of Leeds, UK. The Constructivists and the appropriation of the designs of William Morris. Part of “William Morris: Radicalism and Aesthetics”, Canadian Society of Aesthetics, Congress 2010, Concordia University, Montreal. William Morris Interventions. The Cuming Museum, London, UK. David Mabb’s Collaboration with William Morris. Art Colloquia Lecture in association with “Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites” University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA. The Morris Kitsch Archive, in association with “Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites” Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Inspired by Morris, William Morris Gallery, London, UK. Utopia Reconstructed, in “Radicalism in Contemporary Art and Literature” with China Mieville and Caroline Arscott, Historical Materialism Annual Conference. SOAS, London, UK. Street Art of the Russian Revolution: Students, Teachers, Artists in “Cultures of Occupation and Demonstration: 2010/1968/1917”. Marxism in Culture, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, UK. 2011 Utopia Ltd. Wexford Art Centre, Wexford, Ireland. Art. Is There an Alternative? Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. The Morris Kitsch Archive, Penelope Fitzgerald Memorial Address, William Morris Society, Kelmscott Coach House, London, UK. Utopia Ltd. Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland. Redesigning the Beautiful: Morris, Mabb, and the Politics of Wallpaper, “Rethinking William Morris, Rethinking Ourselves”, University of Ottawa, Canada.

17 William Morris, ‘The Campaign for Drawing’ at “William Morris: Story, Memory, Myth”. Two Temple Place, London, UK. 2012 On the Passage of A Few Patterns through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: David Mabb’s appropriations of William Morris 1999-2011. The Courtauld Institute, in conjunction with “William Morris: Story, Memory, Myth”. Two Temple Place, London, UK. Speaker part of “Lineages of Modernism and the Avant-Garde”, Historical Materialism Annual Conference. SOAS, London, UK. 2013 Meet the Artist, Gallery talk ‘Regime Change Begins at Home’, William Morris Gallery, London, UK. David Mabb: in conversation, part of “…how is it towards the east” Calvert 22 Gallery, London, UK. Regime Change Begins at Home for The Friends of the William Morris Gallery, William Morris Gallery, London, UK. Protest Paintings as part of ‘Heckler’ Trade Gallery, Nottingham, UK William Morris in the work of David Mabb as part of ‘How We Make and How We Might Make’, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK. Off with his head! Reworkings of Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International and monuments to Lenin in art since the 1960s, part of “Avant-Garde”, Historical Materialism Annual Conference. SOAS, London, UK. 2014 Announcer, as part of “And Painting? Questioning contemporary painting”, Facudade de Bela- Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. David Mabb: In Conversation with Morgan Quaintance, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, UK Announcer, Peer Sessions, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, UK The Decorating Business: William Morris Wallpaper and Constructivism as part of ‘The Wallpaper of Revolution’ with Ulrich Lehmann, Open University Camden Centre, London, UK But what does it mean to paint politically? Part of “Commitment in Painting”, Paintclubeast in collaboration with Firstsite, Colchester, UK

18 Symposium: Legacies of Malevich; abstraction then and now, with Briony Fer and Hal Foster, Camberwell College of the Arts, University of the Arts, London, UK A Romance in Fourteen Parts, part of “Art, cultural labour and reproduction of capitalism” Historical Materialism Annual Conference, SOAS London, UK Co-creation, Art Talk Public Lecture Series. School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire, St Albans, UK 2015 Détournement, Appropriation and Copyright. Part of "Keeping Within the Lines: Approaches to copyright in art and design archives". Histories of Archaeology Research Network, London Metropolitan Archives, London, UK William Morris and Art History, Friends of the William Morris Gallery AGM, William Morris Gallery, London, UK. David Mabb: In Conversation with Larne Abse Gogarty, William Morris Gallery, London, UK. Announcer as part of ‘William Morris in the 21st Century”, Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham, UK We are Fucking Angry: Protest Paintings and History Lessons, Historical Materialism Annual Conference, SOAS London. 2016 A Provisional Memorial to Nuclear Disarmament, “Roundtable”, Material Nuclear Culture, KARST Gallery, Plymouth, UK Perpetual Uncertainty / Contemporary Art in the Nuclear Anthropocene, “Roundtable”, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden. William Morris goes Atomic: A Provisional Memorial to Nuclear Disarmament, William Morris Society, Kelmscott House, London, UK 2017 Maggots and Men and David Mabb, part of #WorldsUpsideDown Firstsite, Colchester, UK. The Works and ideas of William Morris, Nunns Yard, Norwich, UK

Teaching Reader in Art, Goldsmiths, University of London