David Trigg is a writer, critic and art historian based in Bristol. He is a regular contributor to books on art and his exhibition reviews, features and interviews with artists have been published in Art Quarterly, Studio International, Art Monthly, ArtReview, Frieze, The Burlington Magazine and Art Papers.
He earned his PhD in Art History from the University of Bristol with a thesis examining the historical significance of the Penguin Modern Painters, a series of British art monographs published from 1944 to 1959.
His book Reading Art (Phaidon Press, 2018) explores the relationship between art and literature, creatively tracing the history of how artists have depicted books as symbols, subjects and objects. It was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book programme and selected by The Times as a book of the year. His most recent book, Spring (Tate Publishing, 2020), explores the season of spring through 50 artworks from the Tate collection.
David’s writing appears in numerous other books on art, including Vitamin D2 (Phaidon 2021), Great Women Artists (Phaidon, 2019), Vitamin T (Phaidon, 2019), 30-Second Great Art (Ivy Press, 2018), Flying Too Close to the Sun (Phaidon, 2018), Body of Art (Phaidon, 2015), and The Twenty-First Century Art Book (Phaidon, 2014). A selection of his interviews with artists is published in Talking Art 2 (Ridinghouse, 2018).
David is the host of the Exhibiting Faith podcast, supported by Arts Council England: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040214