Dave Evans


Dave Evans explores the passage of time, and its subsequent labelling as history, the past, present and future. Recent works explore the transient nature of narratives of the future, looking at how the history of science fiction can be viewed as a series of failed attempts at imagining a future, which, by its very nature, is unknowable. In his work, this failure and transience is explored through building basic units of futuristic imagining, alien landscapes and rockets, using no allusion to permanence. Materials used retain a fragility, foil, paper, cardboard, are held together with string, or pins, or gravity, and although these objects ‘fly,’ there is no pretence to actual flight, objects are elevated or hung. Field recordings, made in museums and galleries around the UK are often combined with these constructions as a way of drawing in the whole ‘constructed’ conception of time. The sound recordings themselves are monuments to our organisational skills, they describe places where we try to reconstruct and make sense of past events, which again, like our science fictions, are ultimately unknowable, but through the act of listening, draw us into the present. 

Dave Evans (born 1975, Liverpool) studied at the Royal College of Art and is an artist and lecturer based in Liverpool. He is a senior studio member at the Royal Standard artist run space in Liverpool, and a Visiting Lecturer at Lincoln School of Art and Design. 


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Half Mile Island (2012)
Books bedside tables, TV, DVD, Lamp, cardboard tubes, rope 

Ridge (2012)
Aluminium food containers, hoover dust, dowl, string, cardboard, tracing paper

Sandwich Wrapper No.3 (2012)
Tin foil, pins