DAVID THURSTON: NEW WORKS
11-18 July 2009. Birdwood House Gallery,  44 High Street, Totnes.

I am delighted that two of my photographs were selected to hang in the Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibition, the largest open show of contemporary art in the world.
I am even more delighted that one of the pictures was bought for £950.
From an entry of more than 10,000 only about 500 works, mostly paintings, are chosen from submissions by non-Academician members of the public.
So, indeed, it is a rare honour and very thrilling: an ambition formed when I was 18 years old. This was my first try.
The summer exhibition, which has been held annually since 1768, ran for three months at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1. It is estimated that some 300,000 visitors walked through the galleries.
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/

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In conjunction with Ways With Words, a selection of my photographs will be on display and for sale at the Cider Press Centre, Dartington from 11 July to 6 August.
www.dartingtonciderpress.co.uk