David J Batchelor lives and works in London and studied at both the Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Norwich School of Art.  He is currently a senior lecturer in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. In Batchelor’s works you are invited to witness scenes that capture brief encounters of everyday life. Often placed within an architectural/ theatrical framework these scenes are fabricated spaces that may remind us of an experience past or present. Originating from the process of collage and referencing technology by both computer manipulation and literally cutting and pasting the image. They become detached from their original context. The whole experience for Batchelor is often what he calls a “Freudian  clash….I don’t attempt to make a narrative, but it just happens. It verges on the chaos theory – making order out of the unordered”. His scenes combine fragments of painting with photographically processed material offering a shift of play between both the image and space. This offers a certain displacement for the viewer. On one hand you are drawn into the macro world of events and then on the other you are kept at bay. Not quite a voyeur but an observer.