The human spirit, reimagined

David Roman is a Birmingham-based contemporary artist whose work bridges ancient craft and contemporary dilemmas. His practice combines Byzantine gilding traditions with ornamental and figurative elements to reflect on concerns around human worth in a society driven by attention economies and data extraction.

Through original works made with precious materials, hand-crafted surfaces, and symbolic forms, the paintings serve as reminders of the transcendent quality of the human spirit, which can't be reduced to measurable reality.