Zadok Ben-David is an internationally acclaimed London-based artist. Born in Yemen and raised in Israel, he studied at London’s St. Martin’s School of art, where he also taught from 1977-1982. In 1988 he was selected to exhibit as Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale.

His delicate, hand-cut painted aluminium sculptures play with shape and use strong lines and fine detailing to suggest growth, renewal and the connectedness of natural forms.

Ben-David has received numerous awards including the Grande Biennial Prémio at the XIV Biennale Internacional de Arte de Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal (2007) and the Tel Aviv Museum prize for sculpture (2005). He was commissioned to make a sculpture for the Beijing Olympics in 2008 following his solo exhibition at the Guangdong Art Museum in Guangzhou, China (2007). In 2010 Ben-David’s solo show ‘Human Nature’ broke all records for attendance at the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.

Zadok Ben-David recently showed at the Busan Biennale in South Korea, and in a major solo exhibition at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. His works feature in the collections of important public and private institutions in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Israel and Australia.

Blackbox is a small version of the installation “The Other Side of Midnight” a circle of 300 cm diameter where the front side features over 2000 hand painted stainless steel butterflies and the other side features insects. The installation is viewed in a dark room, lit by ultraviolet light projectors. Blackbox makes the circle glow in the dark and gives to it an impression of 3 dimensions. 

Zadok Ben-David is an internationally acclaimed London-based artist. Born in Yemen and raised in Israel, he studied at London’s St. Martin’s School of art, where he also taught from 1977-1982. In 1988 he was selected to exhibit as Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale.

Having photographed this young girl performing a handstand in 2017 on a beach of the red sea in Eilat, Israel, Zadok Ben-David found the inspiration for Figure 1599.

Zadok Ben-David is an internationally acclaimed London-based artist. Born in Yemen and raised in Israel, he studied at London’s St. Martin’s School of art, where he also taught from 1977-1982. In 1988 he was selected to exhibit as Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale.

Movement Box features the images of a young girl Zadok Ben-David photographed when she was performing the handstand in 2017 on a beach of the red sea in Eilat, Israel. 

This work was also part of the impressive Zadok Ben-David installation “People I saw but Never met”, which contained more than 5000 acid etched stainless steel figures. 

His delicate, hand-cut painted aluminium sculptures play with shape and use strong lines and fine detailing to suggest growth, renewal and the connectedness of natural forms.

Zadok Ben-David’s fine and exquisite sculptures play with shadow and light. So typical of his work, Up and Above explores the renewal and connectedness of natural forms.

Ben-David is an internationally acclaimed London-based artist. Born in Yemen and raised in Israel, he studied at London’s St. Martin’s School of art, where he also taught from 1977-1982. In 1988 he was selected to exhibit as Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale.