David Tremlett

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David Tremlett (born February 13, 1945) is an English sculptor, installation artist and photographer.

Tremlett was born in St. Austell, Cornwall and grew up on his parents' farm. He attended Falmouth College of Art from 1962 to 1963, before studying sculpture at Birmingham School of Art from 1963 until 1966 and then at the Royal College of Art in London.^[1] He travelled from the early 1970's in North America and Australia, and from 1978 to 1987 in the Middle East and Africa.

He rose to prominence in the 1970s alongside artists such as Richard Long and Gilbert and George.^[2] His work has often featured large drawings on the walls of buildings, his intention being to "give the building a certain new structure to support the window aperture or whatever part I was using. It’s a gesture almost of 'Don’t fall down anymore, let me give you a little more life and hold you up.'"

Since 1970 has exhibited internationally in many private galleries and major museums with 10 catalogues and many artist books to his credit.

In 1992 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize "for his many wall drawings displayed around the world, most notably at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hanover"^[3] Since the late 1970s has been creating Wall Drawings notably at the British Embassy in Berlin (his largest to date 16 mts x 46 mts), the British Council Buiding in Nairobi and the Capella di Barolo with his friend Sol Lewitt. The stained glass windows for the church of St.Peter and S.Paul in Villenauxe la Grande in France were completed in 2006.

It's said when he first got married Gilbert and George were his best men.^{[citation needed]}

Was given £100 to hitchhike from UK to Australia by Situation Gallery, London and a £100 by Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf in 1972. He made it in 8 months.