Peter Daverington
Peter Daverington paints landscapes that merge his interest in travel, culture and art history. In his maximalist aesthetic Daverington recreates disparate images, styles and references from the masters of Western and Eastern art. Having built upon a foundational practice of graffiti and street art, the immaculate baroque quality of his rich oil paintings and diverse painterly techniques announce that he is a painter of rare distinction.
Daverington’s practice is supported by an erudite hunger for images. Rather than appropriating any one particular artist from the past, he narrows in on the anonymous features of broad traditions. How did the High Renaissance artists paint skin, hair and lips? How did the Romantics paint light and mountains? How do Australian artists paint gumtrees? In Daverington’s work the profession of art is spoken for, and the visuality of the past reaches out into our contemporary moment.
ARTWORKS
David, 2019
Oil, gold leaf, resin on linen, artist frame
29.0 x 24.5 cm
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Jacob's Place, 2019
Oil, gold leaf, resin on linen
29.0 x 24.5 cm
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Tragic Romantic, 2019
Oil, gold leaf, resin on linen, artist frame
29.0 x 24.5 cm
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Ecclesiastical Landscape, 2016
Oil on canvas
60.0 x 45.0 cm
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Jacob's Solace, 2019
Oil, gold leaf, resin on linen
29.0 x 24.5 cm
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Welcome to the Jungle, 2019
Oil, gold leaf, resin on linen, artist frame
29.0 x 24.5 cm
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Fatima, 2019
Oil, gold leaf, resin on linen, artist frame
29.0 x 24.5 cm
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Pascual's Ridge, 2019
Oil, gold leaf, resin on linen
29.0 x 24.5 cm
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Jacob, 2019
Oil, gold leaf, resin on linen
36.0 x 28.0 cm
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NFS
Shaft in the Mountain, 2019
Oil, gold leaf, resin on einen, artist frame
29.0 x 24.5 cm
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A disquieting muse, 2017
Oil on canvas
158.0 x 121.0 cm
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Self portrait as objects in a room, 2017
Oil on canvas
158.0 x 122.0 cm
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Cluster in the attic, 2017
Oil on canvas
122.0 x 91.0 cm
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Two objects arranged in a room, 2017
Oil on canvas
61.0 x 45.0 cm
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Date with de Chirico, 2016
Oil on canvas
158.0 x 122.0 cm
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Room with a view, 2017
Oil on canvas
106.0 x 81.0 cm
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EXHIBITIONS
Peter Daverington
New Paintings
16th May - 22nd June 2019
Peter Daverington
Daverington does de Chirico
9th September - 21st October 2017
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Melbourne 1974
Lives and works in Kingston, NY
Education
2006 Master of Fine Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts
2004 Graduate Diploma in Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Palimpsest, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Chapter 22, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Peter Daverington: Work to the Finish, Michael Reid, Sydney
2019 New Paintings, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich
2018 Surface Zero, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Daverington does de Chirico, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich
2016 Weltlandscaft, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Before the Apocalypse, Shanghai Mass Art Center, Shanghai
2015 Iconophilia, The Lodge Gallery, New York
2015 Lacuna, Chasm Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Because Painting, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Into the Never, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
2013 From the Future With Love, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Poiesis, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Holy Mountain, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2009 The Continuum, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Peter Daverington, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Everness, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2007 The Dervish Series, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2024 ARTitecture, JAHM, Melbourne, Australia
2022 John Leslie Art prize, Gipplsland Art Gallery
2022 Sydney Contemporary 2022,ARC ONE Gallery ,Melbourne, Australia
2021 Out Of The Darkness: A Survivor’s Journey, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia
2020 MINUTIAE, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2020 Colour Sense ,Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Sydney Contemporary, ARC ONE Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
2017 Latent Content Analysis, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Digital: The World of Alternative Realities, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
2016 The Oasis, Gitler_& Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Lurid Beauty - Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria
2015 The Garden, QUT Museum, Queensland
2015 The Unicorn Tapestries, Gitler_& Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Post Human Utopia, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Synthetic Landscapes, MAF Video, Melbourne Art Fair
2014 Currents - Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2014 Perceptions of Space: Justin Collection, Glen Eira City Council Gallery
2014 Archibald Prize, National Gallery of New South Wales
2014 A World Apart, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2013 TGF Sports, The Lodge Gallery, New York
2013 Fleurieu Art Prize, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia
2013 New Horizons, Gippsland Gallery
2013 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2013 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2013 Innovators 1, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2013 Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Centre of Contemporary Art, NY
2013 100 Little Deaths, Bravin Lee Programs, New York
2012 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2012 Currents-Santa Fe International New Media Festival
2012 Under The Influence, Kianga Ellis Projects, Brooklyn
2011 New Romantics, curated by Simon Gregg, Gippsland Art Gallery
2011 KIAF11, ARC ONE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Art + Architecture II, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2010 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Gallery
2010 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2010 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2010 Constellations - Australian Contemporary Drawing1, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Turbulent Terrain, La Trobe Regional Gallery
2009 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Gallery
2008 Blake Prize, NAS Gallery, Sydney
2008 Bal Tashchit- Thou Shalt Not Destroy, Jewish Museum Australia
Collections
Artbank
KPMG
MacQuarie Bank
Geelong Gallery
Gippsland Art Gallery
City of Port Philip
Bibliography
2023 Ryan Keegan, A Spray-Painted Hudson River School Mural, Chronogram, Dec 1, 2023
2016 Sarah Casscone, The Top 30 Most Exciting Street Artists Right Now: Part I, Artnet, Nov 16, 2016
2016 Andrew Frost, Why A Mountain: An Interview with Peter Daverington, The Art Life, Nov 7, 2016
2016 Bronwyn Watson, Peter Daverington’s Welcome to the pleasure dome at Geelong Gallery, The Australian, April
2014 Phip Murray, On the World Stage, Art Collector, p.76-77, (illus), Jan, 2014
2013 Kirsten Rann, Reviews: International, ARTnews, p.110, Sept, 2013
2013 Sunzhong Qin, Shanghai Evening Post, Front Page, (illus), 31 May, 2013
2013 Dan Rule, Around the Galleries - Peter Daverington, The Age, 16 March, 2013
2013 Steve Dow, Big, bold and full of possibilities, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Jan, 2013