David Dawson

David studied at the Royal College of Art from 1984 - 1987, where he was a contemporary of Tracey Emin and Jake and Dinos Chapman. He considered himself to be almost exclusively a painter and after leaving the Royal College of Art he became an assistant to the artist Lucian Freud, as well as modelling for a number of his paintings which he continued until Freud died. Dawson exhibited his paintings at Marlborough Fine Art in London in a two-person show with Catherine Goodman in 2004, and at a solo show in 2011. As well as being a painter, Dawson is also a photographer, with his most well-known photographs being a series started in 2000 of Freud at work. These were shown at London's National Portrait Gallery in 2004, and 26 of them were acquired for the Gallery's collection. Dawson is represented by Marlborough Fine Art in London.