94. IAN
DAVENPORT
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Colorfall: Cobalt, Vermillion, Cobalt, 2013
acrylic on stainless steel mounted on aluminum panel 3 panels Overall: 200 x 300 cm |
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Staggered Lines: Flanger, 2013
acrylic on stainless steel mounted on aluminum panel 122.9 x 98.1 cm |
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Puddle Painting: Pyrrole Orange, 2010
acrylic paint on aluminum 45.1 x 38.1 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
Born in 1966 in Sidcup, Kent, UK
Nowadays:
Lives and works in London, UK
Studies:
1984 –
1985 Northwich College of Art and Design, Cheshire, UK
1985 – 1988 B.A., Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College of
Art, London, UK
Themes and
style:
Many of Davenport's
works are made by pouring paint onto a tilted surface and letting gravity
spread the paint over the surface. He has usually worked on medium density
fibreboard rather than canvas, and most often employs household gloss paint,
such that the viewer can glean their own reflection in the work. He has made a
number of diptychs and triptychs as well as single works.
Techniques:
His work is developed in paintings.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
“Melismatic,” XIPPAS GALLERIES, Geneva, CH
PACE
PRINTS, New York, NY
“Ian
Davenport,” DAN GALERIA, São Paulo, BR
“Ian
Davenport,” GALERIE FLORE, Brussels, BE
2014
“Colourfall,” WADDINGTON CUSTOT GALLERIES, London, UK
2013
“Colorfall,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York, NY
2012
“Ian Davenport,” GALERIE ANDRES THALMANN, Zürich, CH
“Between
the Lines,” ART PLURAL GALLERY LTD, Singapore, SG
“Ian
Davenport: Reflex,” GIACOMO GUIDI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Rome, IT
2011
“Ian Davenport,” WADDINGTON CUSTOT GALLERIES, London, UK
GALERIE
FORSBLOM, Helsinki, FI
“Ian
Davenport: Prismatic,” ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, London, UK
“Ian
Davenport,” GALERIE HOPKINS, Paris, FR
2010
“Ian Davenport,” ALLERART, Bludenz, AT
“Ian
Davenport,” GALERIE SLEWE, Amsterdam, NL
GALERIE
XIPPAS, Paris, FR
2009
“Ian Davenport,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York, NY
“Poured
Lines,” WADDINGTON CUSTOT GALLERIES, London, UK
“Ian
Davenport: Fabstraction,” ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, London, UK
“Puddle
Paintings,” WADDINGTON CUSTOT GALLERIES, London, UK
2008
“Ian Davenport,” GALLERY HAKGOJAE, Seoul, KR
“Ian
Davenport & the Simpsons,” INGLEBY GALLERY, Edinburgh, UK
2006
ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, London, UK
2005
GALERIE SLEWE, Amsterdam, NL
GALERIE
XIPPAS, Paris, FR
2004
IKON, Birmingham, AL
2003
WADDINGTON CUSTOT GALLERIES, London, UK
INGLEBY
GALLERY, Edinburgh, UK
2001 THE
BOX ASSOCIATI, Turin, IT
GALERIE
XIPPAS, Paris, FR
GALERIE
SLEWE, Amsterdam, NL
2000
WADDINGTON CUSTOT GALLERIES, London, UK
Project
Space, TATE LIVERPOOL, Liverpool, UK
1999
DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Scotland, UK
PATRICK
DE BROCK GALLERY, Knokke, Belgium, BE
1998 GALERIE
XIPPAS, Paris, FR
1997
GALERIE LIMMER, Cologne, DE
GALLERIA
MONCADA, Rome, IT
1996
“Statements,” WADDINGTON CUSTOT GALLERIES, Art 27'96, Basel, CH
RIDINGHOUSE
EDITIONS, London, UK
WADDINGTON
CUSTOT GALLERIES, London, UK
1994
TURNER & BYRNE GALLERY, Dallas, TX
1993
WADDINGTON CUSTOT GALLERIES, London, UK
1992
GALERIE LUDWIG, Krefeld, DE
GALERIE
MICHAEL HAAS, Berlin, DE
GALERIE
LIMMER, Freiburg, DE
PAUL
KASMIN GALLERY, New York, NY
1990
WADDINGTON CUSTOT GALLERIES, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2015
“British Artists,” GALERIE ANDRES THALMANN, Zürich, CH
“Right
Now!,” MISSION GALLERY, Swansea, UK
2014
“Summer Exhibition,” ROYAL ACADEMY, London, UK
2013
“Hidden in Plain Sight: British Abstract Art from the Collection,” PLYMOUTH
CITY
MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, Plymouth, UK
“Once
Upon a Time and what a very good time it was,” INGLEBY GALLERY,
Edinburgh,
UK
“Touching
Colour,” HATTON GALLERY, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2012
“Sweethearts: Artist Couples,” PIPPY HOULDSWORTH, London, UK
“The
Materiality of Paint,” THE FINE ART SOCIETY, London, UK
“Means
Without Ends,” PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY, London, UK
“Royal
Academy Summer Exhibition,” ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, London, UK
2011
“Lineage: Prints by Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport and Julian Opie,”
EDINBURGH
PRINTMAKERS, Edinburgh, UK
“UK
& US Contemporary Artists,” GALERIA PILAR SERRA, Madrid, ES
“Why
Patterns?,” SLEWE GALLERY, Amsterdam, NL
“I
Promise to Love You: Caldic Collection,” KUNSTHAL ROTTERDAM,
Rotterdam,
NL
“Gravity’s
Rainbow,” INGLEBY GALLERY, Edinburgh, UK
2010
“ART,” HAAS AND FUCHS, curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Berlin, DE
“Layers:
John Moores Prize Paintings in Korea,” SEONGNAM ART CENTER,
Seongnam-si,
Gyeonggi, KR
“Summer
Exhibition,” ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, London, UK
“Process/Abstraction,”
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York, NY
“Abstraction
and Structure,” BERNARD KNAUS FINE ART, Berlin, DE
“Abstract
Vision Now,” ART+ART GALLERY, Moscow, RU
“Eleven,”
ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, London, UK
“John
Moores Painting Prize 2010,” WALKER ART CENTER, Liverpool, UK
“Fast
Forward,” SAO PAULO BIENNALE, Sao Paulo, BR
“The
Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British
Council
Collection,” MINSHENG ART MUSEUM, Shanghai, CN
“Pictures
on Pictures: Discursive Painting from Albers to Zobernig from the
Daimler
Art Collection,” MUSEUM MODERNER KUNST STIFTUNG LUDWIG,
Vienna,
AT
“Save
Us,” MACCLESFIELD VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL, UK
2009
“Artissima,” GALERIE XIPPAS, Turin, IT
“Contemporary
Prints: Including Lichtenstein, Davenport, Opie,” ALAN
CRISTEA
GALLERY, London, UK
“Northern
Print Biennale,” LAING ART GALLERY, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
“Setting
the Pattern,” KORAALBERG CONTEMPORARY ART, Antwerp, BE
“Ian
Davenport Michael Craig-Martin Julian Opie: Múltiple,” GALERIA
ESTIARTE,
Madrid, ES
2008
“New Gallery Editions,” ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, London, UK
“2008
Blitzkrieg Bop,” MAN&EVE GALLERY, London, UK
“20 at
The Hospital Club,” THE HOSPITAL CLUB GALLERY, London, UK
“Weight
Watchers,” GALERIE XIPPAS, Paris, FR
“New
Contemporary Art Displays,” TATE BRITAIN, London, UK
“Cover
Versions,” ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA, Milan, IT
2007
“Painting in the Noughties,” REGIONAL CULTURAL ARTS CENTRE, Letterkenny,
Donegal,
IE
“The Jerwood
Drawing Prize 2007,” JERWOOD SPACE, London, UK
“Turner
Prize A Retrospective 1984-2006,” TATE BRITAIN, London, UK
“New
Space New Work,” ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, London, UK
“Between
the Lines,” GALLERY HAKGOJAE, Seoul, KR
“A
Summer Selection,” CRANE KALMAN GALLERY, London, UK
2006-08
“Drawing Breath, The Jerwood Drawing Prize - Special Exhibition,”
WIMBLEDON
COLLEGE OF ART, London, UK
2006-07
“You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference,” HARRIS MUSEUM
AND ART
GALLERY, Preston, UK; HAYWARD GALLERY, London, UK; GLYNN
VIVIAN
ART GALLERY, Swansea, Lowry, Salford. UK; NEW ART GALLERY,
Walsall,
UK; TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM, Carlisle, UK
2006
“Passion for Paint,” BRISTOL’S CITY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, Bristol, UK;
NATIONAL
GALLERY, LAING ART GALLERY, London, Newcastle, UK
“Artists
+ Alchemists,” SHERBORNE HOUSE, Sherborne, Dorset, UK
“Colour
and Chemistry,” SHERBOURNE HOUSE, Dorset, UK
“Compilation
2,” ROCKET GALLERY, London, UK
“How to
Improve the World British Art 1946-2006, Arts Council Collection,”
HAYWARD
GALLERY, London, UK
“Concrete
Matters,” NIEUWE VIDE GALLERY, Haarlem, NL
“Thread,”
INGLEBY GALLERY, Edinburgh, UK
“Abstract
Painting and the University of Warwick Art Collection,” MEAD
GALLERY,
Warwick, NY
“Monochromed,”
THE FINE ART SOCIETY, London, UK
“Edition,”
INGLEBY GALLERY, Edinburgh, UK
"The
hardest thing to draw is a kiss," WIMBLEDON SCHOOL OF ART, curated
by David
Austen, London, UK
“Compilation
3,” ROCKET GALLERY, London, UK
2005
“Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue?,” INGLEBY GALLERY, Edinburgh, UK
“Minimalism
and After IV,” DAIMLERCHRYSLER CONTEMPORARY, Berlin, DE
“Painting:
London,” GALLERY HOLLY SNAPP, Venice, IT
“Ian
Davenport, Kaoru Tsunoda,” RACHMANIOFF'S, London, UK
“Elements
of Abstraction,” SOUTHAMPTON CITY ART GALLERY, Southampton,
UK
2004
“Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting,” EARL LU GALLERY, Lasalle-sia
College
of the Arts, Singapore, SG
“Other
Times: Contemporary British Art,” CITY GALLERY, in association with
the
British Council Prague, CZ
“Post
Impact,” XIPPAS GALLERY, Athens, GR
“John
Moores 23,” WALKER ART GALLERY, Liverpool, UK
2003
“Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art,” TATE BRITAIN,
London,
UK
“Blanc
en Blanc,” GALERIE XIPPAS, Paris, FR
“Exodus:
between promise and fulfilment,” KETTLE'S YARD, Cambridge, UK
“Circular,”
ROCKET GALLERY, London, UK
“Prints
Published by the Alan Cristea Gallery,” ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY,
London,
UK
“On,”
XIPPAS GALERIE, Athens, GR
2002 “In
the Freud Museum,” FREUD MUSEUM, London, UK
“Prospects
2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition,” ESSOR GALLERY
PROJECT
SPACE, London, UK
“Super-Abstr-Action
2,” GALERIE NO CODE, Bologna, IT
“Inheriting
Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art,” ROCKET
GALLERY,
London, UK
“Peintures
- contrainte ou recette,” GALERIE DU CLOÎTRE, organized by
L'Ecole
des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, FR
SLEWE
GALERIE, Amsterdam, NL
“Abstraction,”
INGLEBY GALLERY, Edinburgh, UK
“John
Moores 22,” THE WALKER, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
“Jerwood
Drawing Prize,” UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Cheltenham;
JERWOOD
SPACE, London, UK
“Berlin/London/Minimal,”
GALERIE MARKUS RICHTER, Berlin, DE
“New
Commissions,” ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, London, UK
“Colour
- A Life of Its Own,” MÜCSARNOK, KUNSTHALLE BUDAPEST,
Budapest,
HU
2001
“Complementary Studies: Recent Abstract Painting,” HARRIS MUSEUM AND
ART
GALLERY, Preston, UK
“Camberwell
Artsweek 2001,” EGER ARCHITECTS, London, UK
“British
Abstract Painting 2001,” FLOWERS EAST, London, UK
“Jerwood
Painting Prize,” JERWOOD GALLERY, London, UK; GALLERY OF
MODERN
ART, Glasgow, UK
“UBS
Warburg Exhibition,” UBS WARBURG AT PLANIT ARCHES, London, UK
2000
“Surface,” AN TUIREANN, Isle of Skye, UK
“Fact
and Value,” CHARLOTTENBURG UDSTILLINGSBYGNING, Copenhagen,
DK
“Profiles
of Young European Painting,” PREMIO DEL GOLFO, La Spezia, IT
1999
“Examining Pictures,” WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, London, UK; MUSEUM OF
CONTEMPORARY
ART, Chicago, IL; ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM, Los Angeles,
CA
“A Line
in Painting,” GALLERY FINE, London, UK
“John
Moores Liverpool 21,” WALKER ART GALLERY, Liverpool, UK
“Now
Showing II,” HOULDSWORTH FINE ART, London, UK
“21
years of Spacex,” SPACEX GALLERY, Exeter, UK
1998
“Elegant Austerity,” WADDINGTON GALLERIES, London, UK
“Up to
2000,” SOUTHAMPTON CITY ART GALLERY, Southhampton, UK
“Roberto
Caracciolo, Ian Davenport,” GALLERIA MONCADA, Rome, IT
1997
“Treasure Island,” CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION, Lisbon, PT
“Ian
Davenport, Michael Craig-Martin, Zebedee Jones, Michael Landy and
Fiona
Rae,” WADDINGTON GALLERIES, London, UK
“Finish,”
SPACEX GALLERY, Exeter, UK
1996-98
“About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s,” MUSEUM OF MODERN ART,
Oxford,
Oxford, UK; THE FRUITMARKET GALLERY, Edinburgh, UK; WOLSEY
ART
GALLERY, Ipswich, UK; LAING ART GALLERY, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1996-97
“Ace! Arts Council Collection new purchases, South Bank Centre exhibition,”
HATTON
GALLERY, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; HARRIS MUSEUM AND ART
GALLERY,
Preston, UK; OLDHAM ART GALLERY, Oldham, UK; HAYWARD
GALLERY,
London, UK; IKON GALLERY, Birmingham, UK; MAPPIN ART
GALLERY,
Sheffield, UK; ANGEL ROW GALLERY, Nottingham, UK; ORMEAU
BATHS
GALLERY, Belfast, UK; ARNOLFINI GALLERY, Bristol, UK
1996
“Nuevas Abstracciones,” MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA,
Madrid,
ES; KUNSTHALLE BIELEFELD, Bielefeld, DE; MUSEU D'ART
CONTEMPORANI,
Barcelona, ES
“50
Jahre Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal,” KUNSTHALLE BARMEN,
Wuppertal-Barmen,
DE
“British
Abstract Art Part 3: Works on Paper”, FLOWERS EAST, London, UK
1995-96
“Real Art - A New Modernism: British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s,”
SOUTHAMPTON
CITY ART GALLERY, Southampton, UK; STEDELIJK MUSEUM,
Amsterdam,
ND; LEEDS CITY ART GALLERY, Aalst, BE
1995
“From Here,” WADDINGTON GALLERIES AND KARSTEN SCHUBERT, London,
UK
“30
Years of Northern Young Contemporaries,” WHITWORTH ART GALLERY,
Manchester,
UK
1994
“Here and Now,” SERPENTINE GALLERY, London, UK
“British
Abstract Art Part 1: Painting,” FLOWERS EAST, London, UK
“Summer
94,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York, NY
“British
Painting 1988–1994: a selection from stock,” RICHARD SALMON LTD,
London,
UK
1992-95
“New Voices: recent paintings from the British Council collection,” British
Council
exhibition, CENTRE DE CONFERENCES ALBERT BORSCHETTE, British
Council
exhibition, Brussels, BE; MUSÉE NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE ET D'ART, LU;
ISTANBUL
GREATER CITY MUNICIPALITY TAKSIM ART GALLERY, Istanbul, TR;
ANKARA
STATE FINE ARTS GALLERY; IZFAS GALLERY, Izmir, TR; MUSEO DE
BELLAS
ARTES, Bilbao, ES; SANTA MONICA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE,
Barcelona,
ES; CENTRO CULTUREL GALILEO, Madrid, ES; VERONICAS: SALA
DE
EXPOSICIONES, Murcia, Spain; PESCADERIA VIEJA: SALA DE ARTE, Jerez,
ES
1992
“The Vertical Flatbed Picture Plane - En Valise,” TURNER & BYRNE GALLERY,
Dallas,
TX
“Dumb
Painting,” CENTRAAL MUSEUM, Utrecht, NL
“L'Attico,”
Fabio Sargentini, Rome, IT
“Gifts
to the Nation: Contemporary Art Society Purchases,” CAMDEN ARTS
CENTRE,
London, UK
1991-92
“Confrontaciones: Arte ultimo britanico y espanol,” INSTITUTO DE LA
JUVENTUD,
in collaboration with the British Council, Madrid ES
1991
“British Art from 1930,” WADDINGTON GALLERIES, London, UK
“Metropolis
Internationale Kunstausstellung,” MARTIN-GROPIUS BAU, Berlin,
DE
“Broken
English,” SERPENTINE GALLERY, London, UK
“Ian
Davenport, Stephen Ellis, James Nares,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New
York, NY
“Abstraction,”
WADDINGTON GALLERIES, London, UK
“Turner
Prize Exhibition,” TATE GALLERY, London, UK
“New
Displays,” TATE GALLERY, London, UK
“Galerie
Fahnemann,” Berlin, DE
1990-91
“Carnet de Voyages - 1,” FONDATION CARTIER POUR L'ART CONTEMPORAIN,
Jouy-en-Josas,
FR
1990
“The British Art Show,” MCLELLAN GALLERIES, Glasgow, UK; LEEDS CITY ART
GALLERY,
UK; HAYWARD GALLERY, London, UK
“Painting
Alone,” PACE GALLERY, New York, NY
1989
“Current,” SWANSEA ARTS WORKSHOP, Swansea, UK
“West
Norwood 1,” WEST NORWOOD RAILWAY ARCHES (7, 8, 9), London, UK
1988
“Freeze,” SURREY DOCKS, London, UK
“Ian
Davenport, Gary Hume, Michael Landy,” KARSTEN SCHUBERT GALLERY,
London,
UK
1985
“Young Contemporaries,” WHITWORTH ART GALLERY, Manchester, UK
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2010 Residence Programme at the Josef
and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany
2004 Retrospective opens at Ikon
Marries Sue Arrowsmith
2002 Prospects (sponsored by Pizza
Express), Essor Project Space
2000 Prizewinner Primo del Golfo
1999 Prizewinner John Moores Liverpool
Exhibition 21
1991 Nominated for Turner Prize
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council Collection, Hayward
Gallery, London, UK
Birmingham City Art Gallery,
Birmingham, UK
British Council Council, Manchester, UK
Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
FNAC Fonds National d’art contemporain,
Paris, FR
Museum of Modern Art, La Spezia, IT
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Southampton City Art Gallery,
Southampton, UK
Tate, London, UK
The Government Art Collection, London,
UK
Unilever, London, UK
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, DE
Weltkunst Collection, Zurich, DE
In his own words:
"I'm not painting, I am
directing," he says. Exploring the accidental might be a better
description, for one series that used industrial-sized fans and watering cans
to move and pour paint. He also investigated "gravity"– poured works
and dipped paintings. "The drip is not invented, it is something from
everyday. It is quite Duchampian," he says.
Representative
Galleries:
Paul Kasmin
Ingleby
Waddington Custot
Alan Cristea
For
more Information:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/ian-davenport-painter-the-drip-is-something-from-everyday-it-is-quite-duchampian-9532752.html