This website is a work in progress to which we continue to add selected past and present projects.

David Ward - Yonder Stone 2023-24, 1 - 5

David Ward – Touching Light
The Gallery, New Art Centre, Roche Court
4 October – 23 November 2025

 

David Ward looking through images in a planchest in his studio his studio

David Ward – An Art360 Film by David Bickerstaff 2022

 

David Ward - Yonder Stone 2023-24, 1 - 5

David Ward – The Skylark and The Stones
Salisbury Museum
14 September – 1 December 2024

 

Woman Holding a Balance - film still

Woman Holding a Balance 2021

 

Spread from 'The Bell Folio' by DW in A Sculpture That Sings: The Art of the Bell By David Ward and Orlando Gough

‘The Bell Folio’ in A Sculpture That Sings – The Art of the Bell by David Ward & Orlando Gough
Published by Little Toller Books June 2024

 

David Ward - Analemma 2015 (detail)

Analemma 2015
Collection Display 2021-2022
Pier Arts Centre, Stromness

 

David Ward – Walking / Pausing / In Gathering Light (The Orchard Suite), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 26 March 2022. Photo: Chris Scott

WALKING / PAUSING / IN GATHERING LIGHT
(The Orchard Suite)
2022
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

 

Shadows and Light – installation view

Shadows and Light 2020-2021
Southampton City Art Gallery

 

The Pneuma Project 2019, Riley Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds

The Pneûma Project 2019
Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds

Kilver Court Garden, Shepton Mallet, Somerset

In the Air 2017
Kilver Court Gardens, Somerset

Make Shift, Make New, Lift Shift 2016 Black Barn, Cockley Cley, Norfolk

Make-shift 2016
Black Barn, Cockley Cley, Norfolk

Light on their Feet – Footfalls for Rambert

Light on their Feet – Footfalls for Rambert  London Lumiere 2018

DW - Light on the Feet (Footfalls for Samuel Beckett)

Light on the Feet (Footfalls for Samuel Beckett) 2017, Strange Cargo, Cheriton, Nr Folkestone

Edmund de Waal and David Ward – wavespeech 2015

Edmund de Waal and David Ward
wavespeech 2015
Pier Arts Centre, Stromness

After Vermeer: Holding a Balance – Dutch Light for JB

After Vermeer: Holding a Balance – Dutch Light for JB 2017
Turner Contemporary, Margate

David Pratley rehearsing 'In a Landscape – for Louise Lippold' by John Cage, performed at the opening of the exhibition

David Ward – In a Landscape 2016
Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Light on the Feet (Footfalls) King’s College, Cambridge

Light on the Feet (Footfalls) 2015
King’s College, Cambridge

David Ward – Canopy I, 1994-2017

Art of the Postcard 2017
Handel Street Projects, London

Seeing Round Corners 2016 – installation view

Seeing Round Corners:
The Art of the Circle
2016
Turner Contemporary, Margate

It’s All About the River 2014
River Tamar Project, Plymouth

David Ward – Waterfalls: Rivers of Britain 2007 (detail)

Artists for Kettle’s Yard 2011
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

Museum of Natural History, Oxford

The Pneûma Project 2014
Museum of Natural History, Oxford

David Ward – Cutty Sark A Tale 2010

Cutty Sark: A Tale 2010
Docklands Light Railway, London

David Ward – Canopy 2011

In Cloud Country 2013
Harewood House, Yorkshire

The Glass Hammock – performance, New Art Centre, Roche Court

The Glass Hammock performance 2012
New Art Centre, Roche Court

Rink, A Skating Drawing Floor 2009

Rink, A Skating Drawing Floor 2009
Ambika P3, London

Bird Song 2004 Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House London (contributing artist with Siobhan Davies)

Bird Song 2004
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden, London

Plumb 2000

Plumb 2000
Durham Cathedral

Landscape, Portrait, Light, 2007-08

David Ward – Slow Time 2008-2009
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton

David Ward - Night Light 2002-2003, BBC Broadcasting House, with All Souls, Langham Place, London

Night Light 2002-2003
BBC Broadcasting House, London

David Ward – Cromer Prospect 2006 (detail). Photo: The Artist

Cromer Prospect 2006
Cromer Pier, West Cliff Esplanade, Norfolk

David Ward – Saint Elmo's Fire 2002, Claremont Pier, Lowestoft. Photo: David Ward

Saint Elmo’s Fire 2002
Claremont Pier, Lowestoft, Suffolk

Catherine Tucker Dancing 1988 - 2006

Catherine Tucker Dancing 1988 – 2006
Modern Art Oxford

Zenith 2000, Millenium Square, Bristol

Zenith 1999-2000
Millennium Square, Bristol

Recollection 1999, in the exhibition View R, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick

Recollection 1999
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick

David Ward – Audience listening to Canopy in Harvard Yard, Cambridge Massachusetts 1994. Photo: Mischa Gorchov-Brearley

Canopy 1994
Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Limina 1998, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

Limina 1998
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

Casting and Stepping – Light on the Feet 1992

Casting and Stepping –
Light on the Feet 1992
Kunsthalle, Vienna

Well 1997, Royal Pump Rooms and Baths, Leamington Spa

Well 1997
The Royal Pump Rooms and Baths, Leamington Spa

Cast 1991, King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Cast 1991
King’s College Chapel, Cambridge

Air Waves 1994 - Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Air Waves 1994
Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Pneûma 1991, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Classics University of Cambridge

Pneûma 1991
Museum of Classical Archaeology,
University of Cambridge

Man, Melon, Moon - A Study in Stillness 1988

Man, Melon, Moon – A Study in Stillness 1988
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Huge Veil 1984, Riverside Studios, London

Huge Veil 1984
Riverside Studios, London

Struck 1988

Struck 1988
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Charm, Beauty and Strangeness 1988

David Ward – Paintings and Photoworks
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London 1988

A Song for the North 1986

A Song for the North 1986
Albert Dock, Liverpool