“The last few years I have been trying to merge my broad interests in painting into a single image––one that is almost like a history lesson in the evolution of painting.” – Peter Daverington

Peter Daverington paints landscapes that art history can live in. In his peerless, maximalist aesthetic Daverington recreates disparate images, styles and references from the masters of Eastern and Western art. Having built upon a foundational practice of graffiti and street art, the immaculate baroque quality of his rich oil paintings 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 hair and lips? How did the Romantics paint 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 (b. 1974, Melbourne, Australia) has held more than sixty group and solo exhibitions in Australia, Europe, the Americas, and Asia since 2003. In 2006 Daverington completed an MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts, where he received the prestigious KPMG tutorship to teach in the painting department. He has received two Australia Council for the Arts project grants, in 2005 and 2010 respectively; the John Coburn Emerging Artist Award in 2008, and the Rupert Bunny Fellowship in 2011 for his first moving image work. Recent solo international exhibitions include Small Works, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich (2019); Daverington does de Chirico, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich (2017); Before the Apocalypse, Shanghai Mass Art Centre, Shanghai (2016); Iconophilia, The Lodge Gallery, New York (2015); Lacuna, Chasm Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (2015); and Weltlandschaft (2016). Recent group exhibitions include Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney (2018); Classic Nouveau, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY (2018); Latent Content Analysis, The Lodge Gallery, New York (2017); The Oasis, Gitler_& Gallery, New York; Divine Abstraction, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne (2016); Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2015-16); The Garden, QUT Museum, Brisbane (2015); 100 Little Deaths, Bravin Lee Programs, New York (2013); Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Centre of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York (2013); and Currents 2012 & 2014 – Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work has been acquired by several major collections, including Artbank, KPMG, Macquarie Bank, Geelong Gallery and Gippsland Art Gallery, as well as private collections throughout Australia and abroad.

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
Before the Apocalypse, Shanghai Mass Art Center, Shanghai

2015
Iconophilia, The Lodge Gallery, New York
Lacuna, Chasm Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2014
Because Painting, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
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
Everness, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

2007
The Dervish Series, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne

2006
Reflections on Hyperspace, Until Never/City Lights
Modulations II, Style Crisis, Mars Gallery, Melbourne

2005
Modulations, Mars Gallery, Melbourne

2004
New Paintings, Smyrnios Gallery Australia

1998
Earth, Roar Studios, Melbourne

2022
Sydney Contemporary 2022, ARC ONE Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney

2021
Sydney Contemporary 2021, ARC ONE Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
Out Of The Darkness: A Survivor’s Journey, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat,

2020
MINUTIAE, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
ONLINE: Sydney Contemporary, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Colour Sense, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2017
Sydney Contemporary, ARC ONE Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
9 X 5 NOW, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
Latent Content Analysis, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
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, NGV
The Garden, QUT Museum, Queensland
The Unicorn Tapestries, Gitler_& Gallery, New York, NY
Post Human Utopia, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY

2014
Synthetic Landscapes, MAF Video, Melbourne Art Fair
Currents - Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Perceptions of Space: Justin Collection, Glen Eira City Council Gallery
Archibald Prize, National Gallery of New South Wales
A World Apart, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne

2013
TGF Sports, The Lodge Gallery, New York
Fleurieu Art Prize, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia
Banyule Award for Works on Paper, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space
New Horizons, Gippsland Gallery
The lie of the land - contemporary landscapes from the collection, Geelong
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Innovators 1, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Centre of Contemporary Art, NY
100 Little Deaths, Bravin Lee Programs, New York

2012
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
Currents-Santa Fe International New Media Festival Under The Influence, Kianga Ellis Projects, Brooklyn

2011
New Romantics, curated by Simon Gregg, Gippsland Art Gallery KIAF11, ARC ONE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art + Architecture II, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

2010
John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Gallery
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Constellations - Australian Contemporary Drawing1, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

2009
Turbulent Terrain, La Trobe Regional Gallery
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Gallery
Lang-scapes, Conical Inc, Melbourne
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Blake Prize (touring), Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

2008
Blake Prize, NAS Gallery, Sydney Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
MacarthurCook Award, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne Bal Tashchit- Thou Shalt Not Destroy, Jewish Museum Australia

2007
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery Australian Drawing Part 2, John Buckley Gallery
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Margaret
Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts 2006 Metro 5 Art Prize, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
Abn Amro, Optus Tower, Melbourne
Nude, Mars Gallery, Melbourne

2005
Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Old Castlemaine Gaol
Graduates, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney

2004
Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Special, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
Athenaeum Award, Athenaeum Club, Melbourne
Umpa Art Prize, George Paton Gallery
ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship, ANZ Bank, Melbourne
National works on paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

2003
Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Gallery, AGNSW
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Banyule Works on Paper, Banyule City Council Gallery
MLC Acquisitive, MLC Melbourne
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

2019
Aouth Melbourne Primary School, City of Port Phillip, Melbourne
Minhang Arts and Design District, Shanghai, China

2018
Audobon Mural Project, East River, Queens, New York, NY

2014
Audobon Mural Project, Harlem, New York, NY

2013
Minhang District Health Bureau, Shanghai, China

2011
Hibernian House, Sydney, Australia

2010
Biosol, Ahrweiler, Germany

2007
Villa 21, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2005
Langham Hotel, Melbourne
Habiba Resort, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt

2003
MAB, Condor Building, Docklands, Melbourne

2001
Wish, Seattle, USA

1998
Sultanahmet, Istanbul Turkey

1997
Malostranska, Prague, Czech Republic

1996
Ahrweiler, Germany

1993
San Pedro, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

1991
Ministry of Transport Mural project, Collingwood

2012
Turkish Music Concert, The Amati and Friends of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sufi Songs of Love, Dergah Al Farah, New York City 2011 Illuminations of the Heart, Melbourne Recital Centre
Biography of an Empire, Columbia University, New York City 2010 New Rome, Aya Irini Museum, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Dualities Twilight Series, Elder Hall, Adeaide Festival

2009
Ney recital, Yerebatan Sarnici (Basilica Cistern), Istanbul, Turkey
From the Garden of Ecstasy, Sunday Live, ABC FM
Alchemy of Joy, 3MBS Radio: Live at the Convent

2008
Sufi-Jazz Fusion, with Kudsi Erguner Ensemble, BMW Edge, Melbourne International Arts Festival
Alchemy of Joy, fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne Mystical Journeys, Monash University, Victoria

2006
Turkish Sufi Music ceremony, fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne

2005
Turkish Sufi Music performances at; Parliament House Canberra; State Parliament House, Victoria

2001
STV, Turkish Television, live performance with Ertugrul Erkisi
Spaceboat TV, Experimental Music Project, Seattle

1998-00
Principal Ney Flute with the Mevlevi of North America

2018
Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

2011
The Rupert Bunny Fellowship

2010
Australia Council for the Arts, Skills and Development - Music
Basso Residency, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Point-B Worklodge Residency, New York City

2008
John Coburn Emerging Professional Artist Award
City of Melbourne, Arts 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 Women’s Association Postgraduate Award

2003
Dominique Segan Drawing Prize

2009
The Continuum – 8 Tracks, self-published, 51:07

2006
The Dervish Series Soundscape (recorded in the Cheops pyramid, Giza, Egypt) – 2 Tracks, self-published, 20:11

Artbank
KPMG
MacQuarie Bank
Geelong Gallery
Gippsland Art Gallery
City of Port Philip

2016
Sarah Casscone, The Top 30 Most Exciting Street Artists Right Now: Part I, Artnet, Nov 16, 2016

Andrew Frost, Why A Mountain: An Interview with Peter Daverington, The Art Life, Nov 7, 2016

Bronwyn Watson, Peter Daverington’s Welcome to the pleasure dome at Geelong Gallery, The Australian, April, 2016

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

Sunzhong Qin, Shanghai Evening Post, Front Page, (illus), 31 May, 2013

Dan Rule, Around the Galleries - Peter Daverington, The Age, 16 March, 2013 Steve Dow, Big, bold and full of possibilities, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Jan, 2013

2012
Ashley Crawford, The Party Before the Apocalypse, Art Wall, Issue 4, p.8-23 (illus), 2012 Kirsten Rann, Shapeshifter, Art Monthly, p.5-8,(illus) March 2012

2011
Simon Gregg, New Romantics - Darkness and Light in Australian Art, The Glacial, p. 97-106.

Micaela Boland, Fair Give locals a Brush with Korea, The Age, Sept, 2011 Dan Rule, Peter Daverington, Poiesis, The Age, 24 Sept, 2011

2010
Gunter Schmitt, Eine Weinlandschaft entsteht, General Anzeiger, 14 Aug, 2010 Harbant Gill, Out Of This World, Herald Sun, 18 Jan. 2010

2009
Penny Webb, Galleries-Peter Daverington, The Age, Melbourne Magazine, 11 Dec

Bryony Nainby, Beyond Imagination-into the Abyss, Exhibition Cataloque Essay, Sept.

Cabrilo Harvey, Stamer Kings Way- The beginnings of Australian Graffiti, p.184, 284.

Yavuz Uluturk, Ney’in Pesinde bir Avustrayali, ZAMAN, p.17, 27 July 2009

2008
Ashley Crawford, Sublime Aspirations, Australian Art Review, p.20-22, Vol 17, 2008

Robert Nelson, Air of trepidation in world of uncertainty, The Age, 27 Oct, 2008

Annemarie Kylie, Digital Life, Vogue Living, Oct-Dec, 2008

Ashley Crawford, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Oct, 2008

Harbant Gill, Such Lavish Sprays, Herald Sun, 9 June 2008

Virginia Fraser, Wading into Scripture:Bal Taschit, Melbourne, Art Monthly, June 2008

Tracey Clement, When Mars Met Venus, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April, 2008

2007
Harbant Gill, Whirl of his own, Herald Sun, 9 May 2007

Andrew Stephens, Artist puts a fresh spin on Islam, The Age, 21 April 2007

Ali Alizadeh, The Poetics of Sufi Madness, Exhibition Catalogue Essay.

Prue Miller, Making a Mark, Australian Art Review, p. 71, Vol 13, May -June, 2007

Jeannette Neumann, Inside Villa 21, Buenos Aires Herald, 4 March 2007 Harbant Gill, Colouring his world, Herald Sun, 12 February 2007

2006
Lorena Oliva, “Extranjeros que vienen para ayudar, una costumbre que se afirma”, LA NACION, 20 January 2006.

Megan Backhouse, Awards round-up, The Age, 6 December 2006

Lachlan Macdowell, The Pleasure-Dome, Catalogue Essay, 2006

2005
Knifey, When Worlds Collide, The Art of Peter Daverington, Brain Damage, #13, Polish

Aerosol Culture Magazine, (illus), Nov 2005, p. 86 – 88

Karen Burns, Modulations, Catalogue Essay, 2005

2004
Harb Gill, Writing on the Wall, Herald Sun, (illus), 13 March 2004

1998
Tim Carlson, Renegade Painters Come Above Ground, The Georgia Straight, (illus), Vancouver, 18 June 1998

1991
Peter Timms, Melbourne Scene, Art in Australia (illus), p.131,Vol 32, May 1991