Rmutt : David Aston Art Portfolio - Rmutt

David Aston Art Portfolio - Rmutt

David Aston is a British artist (b. 1975, Edinburgh) based in London. David secured his BA from Bath Spa University and interned with Bonhams as a fine art auctioneer. David's art practice is inspired by his studies of history and the art market. His work explores dimensions of time and the concept of 'diachronic', which observes how culture and language evolves through time. David's recent works act as markers for our transition from material past to technology and data fuelled future. They highlight the profound and sometimes humorous duality of our past, present and future and question our humanity and culture at a time of unprecedented change. These multimedia works observe our transition to an age where we need to attest our humanity to machines, proclaim our rights to data, virtual assets and memory, question our collective cultural legacy through acts of digital archeology, and explore digital possibilities through hashtag muses. David's earlier sculptural photographic works explore themes of anonymity, commoditisation and copyright through the curation of anonymous 19th century social histories (ULOs, Unidentified Living Objects). Collected photographs are represented as postage stamps, re-packaged as modern point of sale consumables, t-shirts and made into playthings in antique slot machines. These early works also explore the potential for both copyright and copywrong in the reevaluation of historical and personal objects. In the Muses series David draws upon his knowledge of early photographies to create timeless highly-choreographed photographic paintings which play with identity, place and time. David exhibits at the Royal Academy of Arts, national exhibitions and The Other Art Fair. He is regularly featured on Saatchi Art and appeared in FAD Magazine's top 5 for his show at the Other Art Fair 2017. Rmutt is the pseudonym Marcel Duchamp chose when signing his most famous work fountain (urinal readymade), 1917.