HOSIE, DAVID

BORN:  06 / 1962

NATIONALITY:  Scottish

LIVING IN:  Kololi, The Gambia

LANGUAGES:  English

STYLE:  Figurative Artist

CONTACT:  +220 - 727 3841  (WhatsApp)

Hosie’s figures appear to symbolise a sense of aloneness and a search for identity. Where the onlookers eye is made to rest on a frozen stillness. Child/adult figures wrestle with their own presence, often accompanied by images of broken aeroplanes, guns and other toy like props. Lovers float and fall within silent skies where the static quality of the protagonists serve to intensify the emotional aspect to the viewer.

John Griffiths describes Hosie’s work as “figures like secular saints of a maimed culture, belonging to a work of new magic painting. Influences ranging from the static nature of Piero della Franchesca and early Renaissance painting to the dislocated human presence found in the metaphysical work of Carlo Carra”.

Hosie says of his work “we are confronted with destruction, guilt, conscience and perhaps a frail optimism”. Apptly conveyed in a painting titled “Guilt, Hate, Shame, Revenge, Love” where a beautiful woman looking out at us in a long evening dress holds an automatic waepon framed by an evening sky.

The stark introspective of imagery in the work is challenging and ominus yet images of youth are arguably symbols of hope, optimism and regeneration which serves to emphasis Hosie’s notion of the “fragility of optimism”.

Born Glasgow, 1962. Trained at Edinburgh College of Art graduating with MA in 1986.

Related professional experience:

Tutor and Lecturer of Drawing and Painting, Glasgow School of Art, 1988-91. Edinburgh College of Art, 1993-2005.

Visiting Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone, 1990. Berkeley University, California, 1990

AWARDS

  • 1996 BP National Portrait Exhibition
  • 1992 Royal Glasgow Institute
  • 1986 George Jackson Hutchison Award (for painting)
  •         Andrew Grant Major Award
  •         Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship
  • 1985 Richard Ford Award (Spanish Travelling Scholarship), Royal Academy, London

 

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS  include works owned by

  •   SIR BOB GELDOF
  •   J.K. ROWLING
  •   PETER GABRIEL

 

COLLECTIONS

  • The Scottish Arts Council
  • The Royal Scottish Academy
  • City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
  • Bank of England
  • Financial Services Authority
  • Robert Fleming & Co
  • Contemporary Arts Society
  • Unilever PLC
  • Bankers Trust
  • Electra PLC
  • Allied Breweries
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Arthur Andersen
  • WH Smith & Son Ltd
  • Gartmore Investment Management

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2020  ROOM27 Gallery, The Gambia
  • 2009 New Paintings, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
  •         Jill George Gallery, London
  • 2007 Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
  • 2000 Front Store Gallery, Basle, Switzerland
  •         Jill George Gallery, London
  • 1998 Jill George Gallery, London
  • 1995 Jill George Gallery, London
  • 1994 Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow
  • 1992 Jill George Gallery, London
  • 1990 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
  •         Artside Gallery, Bath
  •         Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
  • 1989 Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
  • 1987 Raab Gallery, London

 

MURALS

2013 - 2021 Various Mural Commissions in The Gambia

  • BRITTANIA BAR / RESTAURANT
  • ALEX BAR / RESTAURANT
  • As well as in/on Private Properties

 

PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS

2013 - 2021 Various Portrait Commissions realised in The Gambia & Casamance, Senegal

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 25.05 - 23.07 2026 /ART27 Group Exhibition, African Art Gallery / Kololi / The Gambia
  • 21/03/2026 to 21/05/2026 - Group Exhibition - AFRICAN ART GALLERY  -  Kololi / The Gambia
  • 06/02/2026 to 18/03/2026  -  Group Exhibition  - TOP SHOP ART GALLERY  -  Kololi / The Gambia
  • 02. JANUARY 2026  -  05. FEBRUARY 2026 - Group Exhibition - AFRICAN ART GALLERY, Kololi / The Gambia
  • 26./27./28. December 2025  -  "ART & BEACH"  Group Exhibition at Sanyang´s  RAINBOW BEACH & RESORT
  • 2025 AFRICAN ART GALLERY  - Senegambia / The Gambia
  • 2024 The QUAY GALLERY U.K.
  • 2023 The QUAY GALLERY U.K.
  • 2016 "THE DRAWING EXHIBITION" Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh University
  • 2011 Head to Head, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
  • 2010 Festival Exhibition, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
  • 2009 20/21 British Art Fair, London
  •         ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Art 2009, Business Design Centre, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Albany Lane, Edinburgh
  • 2008 20/21 British Art Fair, London
  •         ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Art 2008, Business Design Centre, Jill George Gallery, London
  • 2007 ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Glasgow Art Fair, Jill George Gallery
  •         Art Chicago, Jill George Gallery
  • 2006 ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Art Chicago, Jill George Gallery
  • 2005 ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Art Chicago, Jill George Gallery
  •         Art London, Burton’s Court Chelsea, Jill George Gallery
  • 2004 ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  • 2003 Art London, Burton’s Court Chelsea, Jill George Gallery
  • ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  • 2002 Art 2002, London
  •         ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  • 2001 Art 2001, London
  •         20/21 British Art Fair, London
  •         ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Toronto International Art Fair, Canada
  • 2000 San Francisco International Art Exposition
  •         Toronto International Art Fair, Canada
  •         20/21 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
  •         Art 2000, London
  • 1999 Santa Fe Art Fair, Santa Fe, USA
  •         Art ‘99, London
  •         ‘The Figure Show’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         20th Century Art Fair, London
  •         British Airways Exhibition, Edinburgh
  • 1998 ‘Figure Paintings III’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Art ’98, London
  •         Art Aid, Crusaid Scotland, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Edinburgh
  •         Glasgow Art Fair
  •         BP Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London
  • 1997 ‘Figure Paintings II’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Art ’97, London
  •         Glasgow Art Fair
  •         Group Exhibition, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Contemporary Print Fair, Barbican, London
  • 1996 ‘Figure Paintings’, Jill George Gallery, London
  •         Art ’96, London
  •         Glasgow Art Fair
  •         BP Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London
  • 1995 Art ’95, London
  •         LA Invitational, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, California
  •         ‘Drawing Show III’, Jill George Gallery, London
  • 1994 Art ’94, London
  • 1992 Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow
  •         6 British Artists, de’Serpenti Gallery, Rome (selected by Lady Marina Vaizey)
  •         ‘London to LA’, Venice, California, Jill George Gallery
  •         ARCO ’92, Madrid, Spain, Jill George Gallery
  • 1991 ‘Discerning Eye’, Mall Gallery, London (selected by John Russell-Taylor)
  •         6th International Art Fair, Los Angeles
  • 1990 ‘Lion Rampant’, Art Space, San Francisco
  •         Raab Gallery, Berlin
  •         Gian Ferrari Artecontemporanea, Milan
  •         ‘Turning the Century: The New Scottish Painting’, Raab Gallery, Millbank, London
  • 1989 Opening exhibition of Raab Gallery, Millbank, London
  • 1988 ‘Works on Paper’, Raab Gallery, London
  •         ‘The Rape of Europe’, Raab Gallery, London
  •         ‘The Rape of Europe’, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan
  • 1987 ‘Germinations’, Frauen Museum, Bonn
  •         ‘Germinations’, Royal College of Art, London
  •         ‘Germinations’, De Beyerd Centre for Contemporary Art, Breda
  •         ‘Germinations’, Centre de la Vieille Charite, Marseilles
  • 1986 The Tron Gallery, Glasgow
  •         ‘Works on Paper’, travelling exhibition, San Francisco
  •         ‘New Generation Show’, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
  • 1985 Contemporary Arts Society, London