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David Spiller
If Music Be The Food Of Love... Play On, 12 - 28 Mar 2025

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

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Overview
David Spiller playing his guitar
David Spiller playing his guitar

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. 

 

For enquiries or more information, please email Jamie Anderson.

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Works
  • Blue Skies, 2006 David Spiller
    Blue Skies, 2006
    David Spiller
    £ 7,500.00
  • Born To Be Wild, 2014 David Spiller
    Born To Be Wild, 2014
    David Spiller
    £ 30,000.00
  • Born To Run, 2015 David Spiller
    Born To Run, 2015
    David Spiller
  • Come And See Me, 2016 David Spiller
    Come And See Me, 2016
    David Spiller
    £ 8,750.00
  • Crazy You, 2010 David Spiller
    Crazy You, 2010
    David Spiller
    £ 8,500.00
  • Days of Love, 2011 David Spiller
    Days of Love, 2011
    David Spiller
    £ 8,500.00
  • Forever True, 2015 David Spiller
    Forever True, 2015
    David Spiller
  • Forever Young, 2010 David Spiller
    Forever Young, 2010
    David Spiller
    £ 32,000.00
  • Forever Young, 2016 David Spiller
    Forever Young, 2016
    David Spiller
    £ 7,500.00
  • Fuck It, 2003 David Spiller
    Fuck It, 2003
    David Spiller
    £ 7,500.00
  • I Could Hold You For a Million Years, 2003 David Spiller
    I Could Hold You For a Million Years, 2003
    David Spiller
    £ 16,000.00
  • If Not For You, 2015 David Spiller
    If Not For You, 2015
    David Spiller
  • Is There Life On Mars, 2001 David Spiller
    Is There Life On Mars, 2001
    David Spiller
    £ 40,000.00
  • It's Written in the Stars, 2015 David Spiller
    It's Written in the Stars, 2015
    David Spiller
  • Just To Say Hello, 2002 David Spiller
    Just To Say Hello, 2002
    David Spiller
    £ 40,000.00
  • Just to see you smile, 2015 David Spiller
    Just to see you smile, 2015
    David Spiller
    £ 13,500.00
  • Just To See You Smile, 2015 David Spiller
    Just To See You Smile, 2015
    David Spiller
  • Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, 1996 David Spiller
    Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, 1996
    David Spiller
    £ 50,000.00
  • Lay Lady Lay, 2015 David Spiller
    Lay Lady Lay, 2015
    David Spiller
    £ 18,500.00
  • Let It Be - All Our Dreams, 2015 David Spiller
    Let It Be - All Our Dreams, 2015
    David Spiller
    £ 17,500.00
  • Let's Fall in Love, 2015 David Spiller
    Let's Fall in Love, 2015
    David Spiller
  • Love and Only Love, 1995 David Spiller
    Love and Only Love, 1995
    David Spiller
    £ 40,000.00
  • Love Is All There Is, 2014 David Spiller
    Love Is All There Is, 2014
    David Spiller
    £ 16,500.00
  • Love You with All My Heart, 1996 David Spiller
    Love You with All My Heart, 1996
    David Spiller
    £ 40,000.00
  • Miss You Tonight, 2010 David Spiller
    Miss You Tonight, 2010
    David Spiller
    £ 8,500.00
  • Once Upon a Time, 2016 David Spiller
    Once Upon a Time, 2016
    David Spiller
    £ 8,750.00
  • One True Love, 2015 David Spiller
    One True Love, 2015
    David Spiller
    £ 18,500.00
  • Spike, 1993 David Spiller
    Spike, 1993
    David Spiller
    £ 25,000.00
  • Stay With Me, 2011 David Spiller
    Stay With Me, 2011
    David Spiller
    £ 32,000.00
  • Still Crazy For You, 2015 David Spiller
    Still Crazy For You, 2015
    David Spiller
  • Take Me Home, 2006 David Spiller
    Take Me Home, 2006
    David Spiller
    £ 7,500.00
  • Take Me Home, 2014 David Spiller
    Take Me Home, 2014
    David Spiller
    £ 30,000.00
  • Take My Hand, 2001 David Spiller
    Take My Hand, 2001
    David Spiller
    £ 40,000.00
  • There Must Be Someway Out Of Here, 2006 David Spiller
    There Must Be Someway Out Of Here, 2006
    David Spiller
    £ 7,500.00
  • To Be With You, 2010 David Spiller
    To Be With You, 2010
    David Spiller
    £ 32,000.00
  • True Love, 2010 David Spiller
    True Love, 2010
    David Spiller
    £ 32,000.00
  • Walk On (Marilyn), 2001 David Spiller
    Walk On (Marilyn), 2001
    David Spiller
    £ 55,000.00
  • We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day, 2014 David Spiller
    We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day, 2014
    David Spiller
  • Who's Gonna Hold Your Hand Tonight, 2002 David Spiller
    Who's Gonna Hold Your Hand Tonight, 2002
    David Spiller
    £ 16,500.00
  • Wild Thing, 2015 David Spiller
    Wild Thing, 2015
    David Spiller
    £ 17,500.00
  • You Shake My Nerves, 2008 David Spiller
    You Shake My Nerves, 2008
    David Spiller
    £ 48,000.00 + ARR
  • Sweet Dreams David Spiller
    Sweet Dreams
    David Spiller
Installation Views
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