[1][3] He is currently teaches at the University of Waterloo [4] In 1986 he was part of the Hybrid Cultures exhibit at Oboro gallery that showed the affinities between the art movements of Mexico City and Montreal.
[12] In 2002 he became a member of Arte y Desarrollo, a group of development and experimental artists whose activities are centralized in rural Dominican Republic.
[1] His work, through private sales or charity auctions,[13] is held in numerous public and private collections, including Art Bank of Canada, Banque Nationale du Canada, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
[3][14] Initially interested in the potential for interconnectivity suggested by new media and the internet, Blatherwick evoked the immense complexity of these center-less networks in his paintings.
[15] "Fusing the technological and the biological in a single frame of reference, David Blatherwick has evolved his painting language while offering ample high-tech and organic eye candy to the viewer's hungry eye" [16] Consistent throughout his entire oeuvre is a fascination with all forms of seething, rampant life, with organic shapes that bring to mind intestines, stomachs, molecules and viruses.