David Marron (born 1972) is a London-based contemporary artist whose work stems from his fascination with life - its peculiarities, its banality, complexity and anatomy. His installations combine the high visual and emotional impact of figurative sculpture with a rich proliferation of symbolic and literary detail. This compels the onlooker to 'read' the work, forging a wealth of ideas and associations as they engage with it.

David trained in fine art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, and currently divides his time between his art practice and his work as a paramedic. His art brings together language, drawing, images, objects and a vast array of substances. It's a combination that David calls 'an assembled oddity', designed to breed thought and feeling. To 'weigh up anchor in the mind' long after you first encounter it.

Each of David's pieces shares a fundamental similarity in its relationship between object, language, drawing and substance. However, his approach varies between different subjects. His most recent piece, Imaginary Shipwreck , began as a series of drawings based on Rembrandt's portrait of Margaretha de Geer. He then explored his response to the image in a text and finally a sculpture of sculpted plaster and objects. The drawings and notes with which David documented the progress of work became integral to it and a part of the installation itself.

David's work can be both profound and playful. His texts touch lyrically on our mortality, observing the traces that passing time leaves on the mind and body. He also revels in the corporeality of language. Figure of Speech takes a range of commonplace expressions and represents them literally in a Frankenstein figure, greater than the sum of his parts, yet somehow bound and constrained by each of them.