David Spiller: If Music Be The Food Of Love... Play On

David Spiller’s paintings are, first and foremost, personal statements. They are meditations on love, relationships and the wider cultural references that help bond people together. These bonds can be conduits between two people who know each other intimately, or they can refer to the more tangential bond between two strangers who have a shared experience. Spiller is acutely aware that popular culture, and in particular music and film, can have both universal meanings and highly specific meanings to an individual or a couple. 

Spiller regularly employed song lyrics in his compositions. These were occasionally writ large in painted block capitals - a central element of the painting's composition - but were also scribbled more hastily in coloured pencils over the surface of the painting. Each lyric would have a personal relevance to the artist, and he relied heavily on artists who he particularly revered. Spiller had a special appreciation of Bob Dylan, and his words feature in every one of the paintings we present in this show. 

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