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.
Peter Daverington
The Fall Oil and Enamel on Linen 158 x 122 cm $12,000
Punch Boy Oil, Enamel and Gold Leaf on Canvas 78 x 66 cm
Naked Mountain Oil and Enamel on Linen 152 x 122 cm $12,000.00
Union Oil, Enamel and Gold Leaf on Canvas 77 x 60 cm
Broadway Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 200 x 150 cm $20,000
Soylent Green Oil and Enamel on Canvas 122 x 91 cm
Urban Woman Oil, Enamel and Gold Leaf on Canvas 64 x 48 cm
Urban Boy Oil and Enamel on Canvas 64 x 48cm
Swan Song Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas 260 x 198 cm $35,000
Falling Cherries Oil and Enamel on Linen 158 x 122 cm $12,000
A Tree in the Bronx Oil and Enamel on Linen 158 x 122 cm $12,000
PETER DAVERINGTON
EDUCATION
2006 Master of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2004 Graduate Diploma in Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Chapter 22, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Peter Daverington: Work to the Finish, Michael Reid, Sydney
2019 New Paintings, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich
2019 Small Works, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich
2018 Surface Zero, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Daverington does de Chirico, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich
2016 Before the Apocalypse, Shanghai Mass Art Center, Shanghai
2016 Weltlandschaft, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
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
2006 Reflections on Hyperspace, Until Never Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Modulations II-Style Crisis, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Modulations, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2004 New Paintings, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Earth, Roar Studios, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 John Leslie Art prize, Gipplsland Art Gallery
2022 Sydney Contemporary 2022,ARC ONE Gallery ,Melbourne, Australia
2021 Sydney Contemporary 2021,ARC ONE Gallery ,Melbourne, Australia
2021 Out Of The Darkness: A Survivor’s Journey, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
2020 MINUTIAE, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2020 ONLINE: Sydney Contemporary, ARC ONE Gallery ,Melbourne, Australia
2020 Colour Sense ,Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney
2018 Classic Nouveau, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Moran Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney
2017 Sydney Contemporary, ARC ONE Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
2017 9 X 5 NOW, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
2017 Latent Content Analysis, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Digital: The World of Alternative Realities, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
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
2016 Divine Abstraction, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne
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
2015 Post Human Utopia, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Synthetic Landscapes, MAF Video, Melbourne Art Fair
2014 Render, Screen Space, Melbourne
2014 Archibald Prize, National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014 Currents – Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Perceptions of Space: Justin Collection, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
2014 A World Apart, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2013 TGF Sports, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Fleurieu Art Prize, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia
2013 Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space
2013 New Horizons, Gippsland Gallery
2013 The lie of the land – contemporary landscapes from the collection, Geelong Gallery
2013 Archibald Prize, National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2013 Sulman Prize, National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2013 Innovators 1, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2013 Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2013 100 Little Deaths, Curated by Tom Sanford, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY
2012 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2012 Currents-Santa Fe International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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 NSW
2010 Constellations-Australian Contemporary Drawing1, RMIT Gallery
2009 Turbulent Terrain, Latrobe Regional Gallery
2009 Aurthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Gallery
2009 Lang-scapes, Curated by Kirsten Rann, Conical Inc, Melbourne
2009 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2009 Blake Prize (touring), Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2008 Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2008 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2008 MacarthurCook Award, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery
2008 Melbourne Art Fair, with Boutwell Draper Gallery and Arc One Gallery
2008 Bal Tashchit- Thou Shalt Not Destroy, Jewish Museum Australia
2007 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2007 Australian Drawing Part 2, John Buckley Gallery
2007 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA
2006 Metro 5 Art Prize, Metro 5 Gallery
2006 Abn Amro, Optus Tower, Melbourne
2006 Nude, Mars Gallery. Melbourne
2005 Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Old Castlemaine Gaol Graduates, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2004 Special, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Athenaeum Award, Athenaeum Club, Melbourne
2004 ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship, ANZ Bank, Melbourne
2004 National works on paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2004 Umpa Art Prize, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University
2003 Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Gallery, AGNSW
2003 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2003 Banyule Works on Paper, Banyule City Council Gallery
2003 MLC Acquisitive, MLC Melbourne
2003 Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival
2002 Architectural drawings, Sofa Gallery, Istanbul
1998 Tagged, Sects Gallery, Vancouver
1992 Off the Wall, National Gallery of Victoria
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, The Gippsland Art Galleries
2018 Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
2011 The Rupert Bunny Fellowship
2010 Australia Council for the Arts, Skills and Development – Music
2010 Basso Residency, Kreuzberg, Berlin
2010 Point-B Worklodge Residency, New York City
2008 John Coburn Emerging Artist Award
2008 City of Melbourne, Arts Project Grant
2007 Artist in Residence, Australian Embassy, Buenos Aires
2006 KPMG Tutorship
2006 City of Melbourne, Arts Grant
2005 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work – Visual Art
2004 National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Postgraduate Award
2003 Dominique Segan Drawing Prize