David Quinn was born in Dublin in 1971 and studied Visual Communications in DIT His modestly-scaled work is often executed on board and paper that has the softened edges of well-thumbed pages in a notebook. Quinn's paintings are not images in the traditional sense, but rather records of the processes involved in their creation that reveal their individual histories. These histories can be read in the careful layering of thinly applied and richly coloured paint performed in a series of controlled experiments.
Quinn has been exhibiting his paintings regularly both in Ireland and abroad since 1995, and he has completed a Fellowship at Ballinglen Arts Foundation and residencies at Roundstone Arts Week and Mountjoy Prison as part of the Arts Council's Artists in Prisons Scheme. Quinn is a regular exhibitor at Éigse Carlow Arts Festival, the RHA Annual Exhibition and Boyle Arts Festival. He has had solo exhibitions at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, the Blue Leaf Gallery, Daintree and Jute, Dublin, and at Maudespace in Sydney, Australia. Quinn's work is represented in numerous private collections as well as the public collections of the Morrison Hotel, Bank of Ireland, ESB, the OPW and AIB Corporate Banking, amongst others. He lives and works in his native Dublin and is co-curator of the exhibition series LACUNA [ ] at Taylor Galleries.