David Harding (1937 – 2026)

Arlene told me late last week that David Harding, the man who more or less invented the idea of the town artist, has died.

For those who don’t know of him or his work, here is his description of his own areas of interest, borrowed from his website,

Visitors and readers of this website will discern that my interests lie in the contemporary development of public art and social/political art in both practice and education; in practice, in terms of my own work and that of other artists; in education, in terms of how those practices can be taught in art schools; in particular my experiences working on the Art and Social Contexts course at Dartington College of Arts and then as founding Head of the Environmental Art course at Glasgow School of Art.

You will find a fuller obituary of David at MemoriTree. There will no doubt be many other obituaries too.