David Stanley has a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of Liverpool, England. He first gained international exposure during 1995 when he accepted an invitation to exhibit at Ward-Nasse Gallery in New York. Since then his work has been shown in California in 1996 and Stuttgart, Germany in 1998. He won the Daler Rowney award for Best British Artist at the NAPA Exhibition at Westmeniser Gallery, London in the summer of 1999. During June 2000 he was awarded a "Year of the Artist" residency by the Arts Council of Great Britain. In 2001 he won the Major Prize for the most accomplished work in the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts 142nd Annual Open Exhibition from over 300 submissions. David Stanley is an abstract painter who concentrates on the interplay between presence and absence, time and the materiality of paint. Working mainly with acrylics, he is a member of the National Acrylic Painters Association and the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.