David McCue is a visual artist born in Glasgow in 1980. He studied at the Surrey Institute of Art, Farnham, and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, and was awarded a Creative Scotland Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2015. He has exhibited widely across the UK and internationally, including Aberdeenshire, Dundee, Edinburgh, London, Glasgow, New York, and Rome. His work spans painting, sculpture, installation, documentary photography, and moving image, and has been broadcast on BBC, Channel 4, and streamed on Netflix.
His latest work, Untitled, (Black and Blue) (Day Eighteen: The History Room), revisits a fragment of a temporary installation he staged in a former classroom in an Edwardian school building. Drawing on an archive of photographic records from an earlier phase of this ongoing project, it marks a shift in both material and presentation. Captured transient arrangements of borrowed objects are translated across media and realised in egg tempera paintings that renegotiate the original image’s relationship to established art historical genres.