Ian Davenport
Ian Davenport | |
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Born | Sidcup, London, England | 8 July 1966
Education | Northwich College of Art and Design, Goldsmiths College |
Known for | Painting, Printmaking |
Ian Davenport (born 8 July 1966) is an English abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee.
Life and work[edit]
Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup, and studied art at the Northwich College of Art and Design in Cheshire and then at Goldsmiths College, where he graduated in 1988.[2] HIs that year he exhibited in the Freeze exhibition organised by Damien Hirst.[citation needed] His first solo show was in 1990 and in the same year he was included in the British Art Show. In 1991, he was nominated for the annual Turner Prize.[3][4]
Many of his works are made by pouring paint onto a tilted surface and letting gravity spread the paint over the surface.[5]
For the Days Like These exhibition at Tate Britain in 2003, he made a thirteen-metre-high mural by dripping lines of differently-coloured paint down the wall from a syringe. In September 2006 he unveiled his largest public commission to date on Southwark Bridge, entitled Poured Lines: Southwark.[citation needed] He painted the West End Wall of the University of Oxford Department of Biochemistry.[6]
Stylistic comparisons have been made between his work and that of Bridget Riley, Helen Frankenthaler and Callum Innes.[7]
A monograph on him was published in 2014.[8]
He is a Patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ "Everything by Ian Davenport". University of Warwick. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
- ^ "Ian Davenport". University of Warwick Art Collection. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
- ^ Serena Davies (19 August 2006). Dance to the music of lines. The Telegraph. Accessed October 2013.
- ^ Tom Teodorczuk (6 September 2006). Tate lines up bankside mural. London Evening Standard. Accessed October 2013.
- ^ Ian Davenport (20 September 2009). "Artist Ian Davenport on how he paints". The Observer. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
- ^ "West End Wall, Salt Bridges, University of Oxford". Saltbridges.bioch.ox.ac.uk. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
- ^ Marilyn Goh (27 June 2012). "Ian Davenport: Between the Lines". DailyServing.
- ^ "Ian Davenport: The Book". Ian Davenport Studio. 2014.
- ^ Wrathall, Claire (13 October 2017). "Exploring the palliative power of art". howtospendit.ft.com. Retrieved 18 December 2018.[permanent dead link]
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