Ian Davenport
Ian Davenport | |
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| Born | 8 July 1966 Sidcup, London, England |
| 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
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
- ^ "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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