PETER DAVERINGTON has just completed this five-metre long mural on Well Street Park, Brighton for Bayside City Council.
Daverington’s mural design creates a trompe l'oeil effect incorporating a finely detailed landscape in the Romantic tradition with a geometric framework giving the illusion of three panels.
PETER DAVERINGTON - PALIMPSEST
PETER DAVERINGTON, The Messenger, Oil, spraypaint and gold and copper metal leaf on canvas, 198 x152 cm.
PETER DAVERINGTON: PALIMPSEST
10 April - 11 May 2024
Opening: Wednesday, 10 April, 6PM, ARC ONE Gallery
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Using canvases that have been painted, painted again, abandoned (even destroyed), before being rescued, Daverington’s delicate surfaces are composed out of crumbling images, oxidisation, and entrancing lacunas. With each artwork containing traces of countless other paintings, this exhibition acts as a visual diary, even a retrospective.
Daverington’s intentional pentimenti reveal both problems and solutions that he has discovered. As the artist notes, “These paintings are an aggregate of imperfections. The scar tissue left after a fight between hope and despair. The beauty of painting is that you can always paint over it. Nothing’s irredeemable.”
PETER DAVERINGTON mural at the Lofts in Beacon, New York
PETER DAVERINGTON has just completed an epic large-scale mural at the Lofts in Beacon, New York. Executed entirely in spray paint, Daverington's mural depicts an idealised landscape, like the Hudson River School artists before him. To capture the essence of the valley, he amalgamated features of the region, including Bannerman Island and the Catskill Mountains, all tied together by the Hudson River.
"The romantic tradition of landscape painting really came on the back of the Industrial Revolution, of which this valley was a key player," explains Daverington. "The impact the revolution was having on the environment led the Hudson River School painters to focus on the beauty of nature. When I started incorporating the school into my work, I didn't even know what the Hudson River was. But it's really an essential piece of America." - Peter Daverington
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2022
Welcome to ARC ONE at SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
From today will be showing a selection of major artworks from some of Australia's most significant contemporary practitioners, including PAT BRASSINGTON, LYNDELL BROWN / CHARLES GREEN, PETER DAVERINGTON, MURRAY FREDERICKS, JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, DANI MARTI, JULIE RRAP, IMANTS TILLERS, GUAN WEI, CATHERINE WOO, and JOHN YOUNG. We are also proud to be presenting, for the first time, the work of internationally acclaimed artist DESMOND LAZARO.
Our booth is showcasing brand new artworks, alongside some of the most iconic works from ARC ONE Gallery, in celebration of these artists and their significant contribution to contemporary art in this country.
PETER DAVERINGTON selected as a finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize
Peter Daverington, Brodribb River Marlo—Looking North Toward the Snowy Mountains, 2022, Oil on linen, 46 x 61cm.
Congratulations to PETER DAVERINGTON for being named as one of 47 finalists in The Gippsland Art Galleries 2022 John Leslie Art Prize!
To see more of Peter's captivating work visit his most recent exhibition 'Chapter 22' available to view at ARC ONE Gallery until August 27.
PETER DAVERINGTON AT ART GALLERY OF BALLARAT
Peter Daverington, The Raft of the Clan, 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, 260 x 397 cm.
PETER DAVERINGTON'S The Raft of the Clan is featured in Out of darkness: A survivor's journey, which opens today Art Gallery of Ballarat.
Out of the darkness: A survivor’s journey is an exhibition of works collected, commissioned and curated by Robert House, a survivor of child sexual abuse. The memories of House’s childhood experiences have continued to haunt him and affect his mental wellbeing, but he has employed determination and resilience to become an advocate for survivors, and work towards a more just society.
House has developed a passion for art, becoming convinced of its ability to represent the complexity of the trauma and other emotions experienced by survivors. He has commissioned, collected and created art, building a unique collection of works that reveal the journey of our society as it comes to terms with this shocking history. His collection reflects his personal journey, carrying the message that the voices of survivors should be heard and responded to with compassion and understanding.
“This was a difficult subject to portray,” says Daverington. “I settled on the idea of survival at sea as a metaphor for the survivors of child abuse - they were abused by a system entrusted with their care. I chose Gericault’s, ‘raft of the Medusa’ (in the louvre) as a source of inspiration… The young people in my painting are empowered, fighting for their rights and protesting injustice. This is a tribute to the people of the CLAN (Care Leavers Australia Network) , who after years of protest, have their voices finally heard. The portraits on the border are significant individuals involved with bringing the case to a royal commission. They include former prime ministers, politicians, royal commissioners and CLAN members.”
The exhibition continues to 1 August.
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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY GOES LIVE ONLINE
Sydney Contemporary is taking a different shape this year. From tomorrow, the art fair will be live online for the entire month of October!
ARC ONE Gallery will be featuring new works by PETER DAVERINGTON, MURRAY FREDERICKS, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, JACKY REDGATE and GUAN WEI.
This year’s art fair is free to browse! The SC Team have worked tirelessly to build a custom platform to connect artists & galleries with the arts community.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
VIP Preview: 1 October 10am
Public Viewing: 1 October 2pm
Visit the fair HERE!
PETER DAVERINGTON COMPLETES MURAL IN SOUTH MELBOURNE
PETER DAVERINGTON has completed a large-scale mural at South Melbourne Primary School, the first public vertical school in Victoria.
Featuring an Australian landscape of banksias and verdant growth interrupted by geometric, hard-edge line work continued from the building's facade, the mural will be enjoyed by students for years to come.
Watch Peter at work in the footage captured by Danny Ronin here.
Peter Daverington, Coxsakie mural, 2019, South Melbourne Primary School, Victoria.
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PETER DAVERINGTON has put the finishing touches on these incredible private commissions. In these works Daverington has engaged with the legacies of Western art history from a contemporary context, seamlessly integrating a vast array of disparate images, styles and references in an aesthetic maximalism relevant to our time.
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Gail Albert Halaban, photo of Peter Daverington’s Bald Eagle, Audubon Mural Project. Photo courtesy of Aperture.
PETER DAVERINGTON's painting of a bald eagle on a shopfront in uptown Manhattan has been documented in a new photographic project by Gail Albert Halaban.
The Audubon Mural Project commissioned a spectrum of artists to create murals of imperilled birds, with each mural loosely based on the watercolours of John James Audubon, the pioneering 19th century ornithologist. Today, more than 100 bodegas, barbershops & other businesses in Harlem & Washington Heights are home to large-scale paintings of North American birds endangered by global warming.
The murals, like the birds they depict, are threatened by changing weather conditions and will soon begin to fade or disappear. Gail Albert Halaban has captured the paintings within the context of the community, before they are worn away.
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Peter Daverington, Space is the Place, 2019, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 198 x 152cm
Congratulations to PETER DAVERINGTON, whose work Space is the Place is a finalist for the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, a biannual acquisitive art prize open to emerging and established artists working in any medium across Australia. The Prize is presented in association with Montsalvat Arts Centre.
The finalist exhibition opens on 30 May at the Barn Gallery Montsalvat, and runs until 21 July.
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Image courtesy of the artist.
PETER DAVERINGTON has recently completed a 55-metre-long wall mural in Queens, New York.
Commissioned by The National Audubon Society and Durst Organisation, the mural features the American Black Duck, a species native to New York that is being threatened by the effects of climate change. The project is part of the Audubon Mural Project, an undertaking inspired by Audubon scientists' 2014 Birds and Climate Change Report, which concluded that over half of American bird species are under threat.
The mural's bright, sunset-coloured blues and oranges stretch out along the wall while a male and female duck float along the gradient, just as the species is often spotted doing in the East River.
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PETER DAVERINGTON was interviewed on 2 November by ABC Sydney’s Christine Anu for her Evenings radio program. Peter had an in-depth conversation with Christine about The Raft of the CLAN, the work’s commission and unveiling at Parliament House, his practice, the meaning of the different elements within the work, and his beginnings as a graffiti artist.
You can listen to the interview here:
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PETER DAVERINGTON was interviewed last Monday by Dan Bourchier of ABC Breakfast Canberra about The Raft of the Clan, the work commissioned by Care Leavers Australasia Network. The artwork, launched 22 October at The Great Hall, Parliament House, Canberra, celebrates the remarkable triumph of Care Leavers who endured cruel and abusive childhood in Australia’s Orphanages, Children’s Homes, Missions & Foster Care that were run by State Governments, Churches and Charities.
You can listen the interview here:
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Peter Daverington, Portrait of Rafael Bonachela, 2018, oil on canvas, 199 x 153cm.
Congratulations PETER DAVERINGTON for his selection as a finalist in the 2018 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with his stunning portrait of Rafael Bonachela, the director of the Sydney Dance Company.
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Peter Daverington, Wall Street, 2018, Oil and Acrylic on canvas, 198 x 152 cm.
New York-based Australian artist Peter Daverington returns to ARC ONE with an exhibition of new paintings, titled Surface Zero.
A contemporary artist with a rare mastery of oil techniques, Peter Daverington’s practice centres on his unparalleled capacity to work across a wide range of pictorial languages and artistic styles. With a foundation in graffiti and street art, his oeuvre critically engages with legacies of Western art history from a contemporary context; seamlessly integrating a vast array of disparate images, styles and references in an aesthetic maximalism relevant to our time.
In Surface Zero, Daverington forces together opposing attitudes in art to consider the potential of images as zones of conflict. A clash of viewpoints, opinions, and perspectives plays out across his layered canvases as hard-edge abstraction, classical figuration and Romantic landscape painting are severely juxtaposed in a heady aesthetic mélange.
Surface Zero is a disaster point of explosive force. Landscapes by the great Hudson River School painter Albert Bierstadt, and figurative works by the Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens, have been deftly appropriated, with the brushwork, colour, and technique reflecting the originals as closely as possible. Bright, geometric, hard-edge line work interrupts these representational paintings creating a tension within the pictorial space between formalism and figuration. For Daverington, this interlocking of clashing styles is “a reflection on twenty-first century disorientation,” it is “like looking at life from multiple viewpoints simultaneously – whether different points in history, different cultures, different perspectives and so on. I like the stark contrasts of life, the very natural struggle between viewpoints and opinions. The only way I can express this is by trying to compress a wide range of pictorial languages to capture the bewildering spectacles of being human and of life itself.”
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. Solo exhibitions include 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), Because Painting (2014), From the Future with Love (2013), and Poiesis (2011), all ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne. Recent group exhibitions include 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. He has been shortlisted for numerous prestigious art awards including the Moran Prize (2018), the Archibald Prize and the Sulman Prize (2014 and 2013); the Fleurieu Art Prize, (2013); and the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2012). 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.
Peter Daverington lives and works in New York.
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PETER DAVERINGTON’s major commission The Raft of the Clan will be launched 22 October at The Great Hall, Parliament House, Canberra, and officially launched by former Prime Minister Julia Gilliard AC.
Commissioned by CLAN, Care Leavers Australasia Network,the artwork celebrates the remarkable triumph of Care Leavers who endured cruel and abusive childhood in Australia’s Orphanages, Children’s Homes, Missions & Foster Care that were run by State Governments, Churches and Charities.
Peter Daverington, Raft of the Clan, oil and enamel on canvas, 260 x 397cm.
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
We are pleased to announce that ARC ONE will be part of this year's Sydney Contemporary with works by Peter Daverington, Murray Fredericks, Janet Laurence, Robert Owen, Nike Savvas, Cyrus Tang and John Young.
The art fair will take place from 7- 10 September at Carriageworks.
For more information, click here.
PETER DAVERINGTON, JUSTINE KHAMARA, CYRUS TANG and LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN
Justine Khamara, When this face is no longer yours, acrylic, inkjet on rag paper, hoop, pine, ply.
Peter Daverington, WTF, oil on ply.
VCA's 9 X 5 NOW exhibition features works from 350 VCA artists and alumni including our very own PETER DAVERINGTON, JUSTINE KHAMARA, CYRUS TANG and LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN.
Curated by Elizabeth Gower, 9 X 5 NOW is inspired by the famous 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition held in Melbourne in 1889. The exhibition is comprised entirely of 9 x 5 inch (23 x 13cm) plywood boards from each contributing artist.
The exhibition continues until 25 June 2017 at Melbourne's Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
Find out more here
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Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, Insecurity (Mount Sinjar 2014), oil on ply.
Cyrus Tang, Lacrimae Rerum- 7403.00S,
Archival giclée print on ply.
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Peter Daverington, Arcadia (still), 2012, high definition single channel blue-ray video, 9mins.
PETER DAVERINGTON is presenting a solo exhibition at the Minhang Mass Art Centre in Shanghai.
Before the Apocalypse opens 7 December 2017.