Writings by/on David Hancock

by David Hancock

REVIEW Sept 2025 Albert Richards at The Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead

To coincide with the 80th anniversary of Albert Richards’ death, the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead is currently hosting a small retrospective of the Liverpool artist’s work, running until 20th December. FREE entry. Director of the Fourdrinier, artist, lecturer, and curator David Hancock reviewed the exhibition

by David Hancock

FEATURE July 2025 To Distant Lands - Remembering Ann Fordham

Director of the Fourdrinier, artist, lecturer, and curator, David Hancock remembers the work of the Isle of Man-based painter, Ann Fordham who recently passed away. Hancock included the only known work by Fordham in the exhibition, The Omnipotence of Dream that was presented at Salford Museum & Art Gallery.

by Kirsty Jukes

REVIEW Nov 2024 ‘The Omnipotence of Dream’ at Salford Museum and Art Gallery

Art historian and writer Kirsty Jukes reviews ‘The Omnipotence of Dream’ at Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Created in response to the 100 year anniversary of André Breton’s writing the ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’, Surrealist works from the Salford Museum and Art Gallery collections are presented alongside commissioned responses. Rarely seen works by Marion Adnams, John Tunnard and others can be considered in fresh contexts alongside work from contemporary artists.

by David Hancock

REVIEW Sep 2024 Object – Space – Time:  John Tunnard and the English Modernists at Leeds Art Gallery

Director of the Fourdrinier, artist, lecturer, and curator, David Hancock provides a fascinating insight into the work of the British Surrealist artist, John Tunnard, from his exhibition ‘Object – Space – Time:  John Tunnard and the English Modernists’ at Leeds Art Gallery until 23 March 2025. Hancock is currently developing work on six Surrealist artists from the collection at Salford Museum & Art Gallery for the exhibition, ‘The Omnipotence of Dream’ which will run from 19 October 2024 – 23 February 2025. One of the artists that Hancock will be focusing on is John Tunnard, whose work Pas de Deux (1946) will be included in the show. Hancock came across the exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery by chance.

by David Hancock

REVIEW Aug 2024 40 Years of the Future: Where Should We Be Now? Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

Director of PAPER Gallery Manchester Ltd and the Fourdrinier, artist and lecturer David Hancock reviews ‘40 Years of the Future: Where Should We Be Now?’, presented at Castlefield Gallery, in partnership with the University of Salford Art Collection, on show until 6 October 2024, and gives a fascinating insight into the work of the three exhibiting artists: Jeffrey Knopf, Theo Simpson and Hope Strickland.

by Mike Chavez-Dawson

In the wake of a dream, the surreal is evoked…

Manchester based artist-curator and previous Visual Arts Editor of FLUX Magazine – Mike Chavez-Dawson (Rogue Artists’ Studios stalwart) reflects on the work of Artist David Hancock and talks to him about his highly ambitious, multi-layered and collaborative exhibition The Omnipotence of Dreams at Salford Art Museum & Art Gallery which is on until 23rd February 2025.

by Sarah Jaspan

David Hancock: Freedom by Proxy

The internet is many things. Vast, complicated and ever-evolving. Yet perhaps, on its most fundamental level, it is no more than a portrait. A detailed snapshot of the individuals, society and culture that built, contribute towards, and use it.