David Hazelwood Biography
David Hazelwood (1932 – 1994) was born in Ipswich in 1932, son of the composer Wasley Gordon Hazelwood. He was a photolithographic artist and then, as a self-taught artist, became a professional artist and collagist of abstract works in mixed media, acrylic, collage in a range of materials, including wood, fabric, jute, sheet music and natural dyes. For a time he was a member of Free Painters and Sculptors and of the Ipswich Art Club from 1965. His output has been exhibited at international art fairs since 1985, including those in Basel, Chicago, Cologne and Frankfurt and he has held exhibitions personal exhibitions at the Medici and Loggia Galleries in London, Bedford College and in 1993 Galerie Peerlings, Krefeld, Germany and Galerie Krakeslatt, Bromölla, Sweden. His work is represented in the Victoria & Albert Museum and many other institutions. In 1995 a tribute exhibition was held at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich and Chappel Galleries, Essex welcomed a solo exhibition of his collages in 2005. He married in Ipswich in 1954 and ended his life in Ipswich on 11 February 1994.