Dave Pescod was born and brought up in Muswell Hill, moving to Buckinghamshire aged ten where he persuaded the grammar school he attended that it might be a good idea to offer art as a GCSE. This qualification helped him to return to North London to study at Hornsey College of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art. He continued his own work, set up a design practice and for many years taught Fine Art and Visual Communication part-time at various art colleges.
‘I work in diverse media, my personality uniting broad interests in response to this changing world. It’s a drive, a fundamental part of me that wants to see what happens when you make and explore.’ Humour prevails through a lot of his work, with a side order of hope.
‘You’ve got some explaining to do,’ teachers would say to him after unfortunate experiments, and he still feels part of a much bigger experiment - trying to seek out reason and understanding of the human predicament.
CV
Visual Arts
2023 Aka Fine Art Cambridge, Spring Forward Show 2023
2022 RA Summer exhibition. Open Studios Waterbeach Group show
2021 Waterbeach Open Studios.
2019 Cambridge Open, ARB Cambridge University
2009 ‘All Embracing’ film selected for Aspen Shorts Festival USA.
2006 Exhibited at Milsoms Gallery, Dedham, Essex
2004 Eastern Open Exhibition, Kings Lynn, Norfolk
2002 ‘Sweetpeace’ animation film shown at BAM Children’s Film Festival New York, also Atlantic Film Festival Novia Scotia & others. Also International Film Festival Isfahan, Iran where I attended.
2000 Exhibited Forefront Gallery Ipswich
Co-promoted World Music Concerts as Global Beats Ipswich, designed projection. VJ at Oxford Jazz concerts.
1981 Exhibited Whitechapel Open, Coracle Press mixed show
1981 – 90 Director of Reginald Widdas graphic design and stationary products.
1978 Covent Garden Dryden Street Gallery, Prizewinner Observer Contemporary Printmakers
Writing
2021 Completed the novel ‘Circle LIne’
2019 Summerhouse playscript selected Drama Festival at ADC Theatre Cambridge
2018 The Dresser’s Apprentice published in the Bath Short Story Award Anthology
2015 ‘The Lost Boy’ play selected for performance at The Scott Polar Institute Cambridge. ‘Pink Leather’ monologue performed at ADC theatre Cambridge
‘A Nice Girl’ prizewinner in Toowoomba Rep Theatre Competition Australia
2014 Short story ’Pink Leather published in ’Home’ anthology by Emmaus International Homeless Organisation.
2013 play shortlisted for Bottle Tree One Act Playwriting USA,
‘Badly Drawn Star’ shortlisted for Bath Short Story Competition,
‘Pink Leather’ shortlisted for Bridgewater Homestart Competition
One Act plays selected for readings in Cambridge ADC Theatre
2012 Short story Collection ‘All Embracing’ published by Route, taught creative writing at HM Hollesley Bay & other writing workshops.
2011 stories selected for Bridport Anthology and commended in Manchester Fiction Prize. Commissioned to produce film of ‘An Accommodation’ by Simon Armitage, shown at Lit Festivals.
2010 Escalator Award Norwich Writers Centre
Edited anthology for Bury Writers
2009 ‘All Embracing’ Highly commended in The Commonwealth Short Story Competition, ‘The Archaeologist’s Wife’ Highly commended in The Writers & Artists Yearbook Short Story Competition. ‘The Circle Line’ long listed in ‘Novel Pitch’ by Spread the word, One act play ‘The Present’ long listed for Windsor Fringe Award, and selected for Naked Stage readings by Write On, Cambridge ‘Scalp’ published in Route Collection, Bedtime Stories.
2008 ‘Signature’ published in Transmission Magazine, Wrote and produced short film ‘All Embracing’ shown at Raindance Festival London, Canadian + USA Festivals, Selected for Top 20 TCM Shorts, ‘Rising Laughter’ repeated on BBC Radio 4.
2007 afternoon short story broadcast on BBC Radio 4, published in Bonne Route collection by ID publishing, Won Suffolk short story competition, run by Bury Writers, published in Suffolk magazine. Stories published in Dreamcatcher
2006 selected for one-year Royal Literary Fund mentor scheme, prose development
2005 selected for BBC Manchester Radio Drama New Writers workshop
2004 attended Arvon course Advanced Radio run by BBC Exec Producer and poet Simon Armitage. UK Film Council course Introduction to screen writing at Signals Colchester.
2003 Produced, directed and wrote half hour radio programme ‘Doing Time’ documentary about Hepatitis C for BBC Norfolk.
2002 Wrote & produced 5 short radio programmes ‘Worship’ for BBC Radio Suffolk
2001 Prizewinner BBC Talent Competition wrote & produced 5 short radio programmes for BBC Suffolk
