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Boys High School. Early on he showed promise as an artist and won a competition to design a poster for a local suicide hotline. His winning entry was displayed as an ad on Cape Town municipal buses. After graduating in 1976, he was conscripted for two years to the South
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he began recording a visual diary of the experience including doing paint-studies of the
Infusion Rooms. This became the basis for his first solo exhibition "Hotel Chemo", a collection of paintings and writings. Cancer radically changed his artistic outlook. From 2008 up to the time of his death in
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as healing tool. In his final years, he is bent on capturing specific moments in the creation of a painting, moments when he pauses and just for that second, the painting is complete. He used resin to preserve these moments, which he called "skins".
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government and after it appeared on the front page of The Cape Times newspaper, the security police confiscated anything with his label and the tag-line: “clothes for people by david”.
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