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.”