Dave Buonaguidi
Iconic Hackney-based screen printer Dave Buonaguidi made his career in advertising before transitioning to being a full time artist. Known for his use of bright prink letterform and tongue in cheek statements. Dave loves to make art work that causes a stir. Often working with found images and materials Dave experiments with the practice of screen printing to push the boundaries of what it is and can be. Past examples include printing with pheromones, sprinkles, printing onto copper plates and just about anything else he can find, showing the investigative approach he takes to his printing practice.
‘Being creative is a wonderful curse. I mean that in the most positive sense. Actually, I’m being dramatic; it’s not a curse at all. It’s a calling’
A prolific artist, each screen print is a combination of visual and verbal language that resonate his past career and interest in propaganda and rebel posters. In 2003 he created the iconic MAKE TEA NOT WAR poster for the anti-war march. It now is part of the collection at the V&A and hangs in the Trento museum of modern art.
Since then Dave has continued to use screen print to push the boundaries of his creativity and respond to cultural subjects and events in almost real time, as if a publisher going to print. Most recently he created a series of Keep Yer Chin up prints in response to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic.
