ROBERT OWEN & PETER DAVERINGTON

Robert Owen, Endings - Kodachrome 64, No. 00, 22/07/1992, 2009, archival print on 310gms Carsons BSK Reeves Paper, edition of 7, 104x72.5cm.

ROBERT OWEN and PETER DAVERINGTON has been selected to participate in the exhibition Perceptions of Space: Justin Collection at Glen Eira City Gallery. Owen will participate with an archival print, titled Endings - Kodachrome 64, and Daverington with a video work, titled Arcadia.

The Endings series comprises a series of colour photographic prints that are the result of an expansive collection of film stubs that Owen collected from 1968 to the mid 1990s. From these accidental end bits of film Owen has transformed chance images into what could be viewed as “apocalyptic landscapes” and refers to more than just the end of film. Marking the end of film itself and the beginning of the digital age, these film ends are notations in time, recording the residue of analogue image construction.

Robert Owen’s practice engages with a sensory investigation of nature, light, colours, time relations and situations in space that play between the physical and metaphysical.

Peter Daverington, Arcadia, 2012, HD single channel BluRay video (loop) 8:54 min.

Daverington's Statement

"Arcadia is an audio-visual meditation on a basic unit of perceptual reality, the Monad. In science, the Monad is often used to describe the primal unseen entity of creation, which has lead some people to describe it as the God particle. Arcadia begins as a single point in the nameless void from where a linear narrative develops suggesting that all things are intricately connected. As we follow a line that develops from a point in space to a complex hypercube we travel through the microcosmic labyrinth of quantum physics and out into the landscape.  The landscape here represents the sublime - a reference to the romantic portrayal of nature by the Hudson River School painters.
 
Arcadia is an attempt to fuse my oil paintings and music together in a single work. In this way I refer to it as a moving image painting. I am interested in finding a way for images and music to represent the experience of being in the world as an infinite cycle of duration and extension - a meditation on how the ‘One’ reflects the many and how a grain of sand can reflect the entire universe."
 

The exhibtion runs from 16 May - 15 June 2014.

Opening night: Thursday 15 May 2014 at 6:30pm.

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A WORLD APART

Peter Daverington, Uncle Bob, 2012, oil on canvas, 91x61cm.

A WORLD APART, ARC ONE Gallery (29 Jan - 1 March 2014)

Curated by Annabel Holt and Anabelle Lacroix

Reviewed in The Age, Arts and Entertainment, 'In the Galleries', 15 Feb 2014.

'A WORLD APART: The pliability of history, the body and the environment are central to ARC ONE'S first group show of the year.  Featuring works held in major collections or featured in major institutional shows - courtesy of gallery artists Julie Rrap, Pat Brassington, Anne Zahalka, Peter Callas, Peter Daverington, Rose Farrell and George Parkin - A WORLD APART offsets the performative with the visceral, the landscape with the surreal.  Daverington's Uncle Bob is a single work in three parts and three mediums. We're presented with a surrealist phizog painted in the artist's devastatingly meticulous manner, neighboured by an animated video work featuring the same character and a photographic print made from a video still.  Callas' chromogenic print, Japanese Uncle Sam, deals in a kind of cultural and historical mutation that invokes the cultural schema under-pinning an occupied post-war Japan.'

- Dan Rule

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Peter Callas, Japanese Uncle Sam, (Neo Geo Squareize Series), 100 x 100cm, chromogenic print edition of 10, 2003.

A WORLD APART, ARC ONE Gallery, 29 JANUARY - 1 MARCH 2014

Curated by Annabel Holt and Anabelle Lacroix

Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka, Peter Daverington, Rose Farrell/George Parkin, Peter Callas & Pat Brassington.

A WORLD APART is a group exhibition selected from the diverse ranks of ARC ONE’s artists, presenting key works across various media.

A WORLD APART plays at dissecting and re-representing reality, conceptually and aesthetically. Through this re-construction, attention is called to that which displaces our ingrained perceptions; the boundaries shift, a duality emerges, exploring the con­stant challenge between seeing and understanding.

Comprised of highly significant pieces, the works in A WORLD APART are all either included in large collections or featured in institutional exhibitions in Australia or internationally. For example, Farrell and Parkin’s Elastic Electromagnetic Waves (2010) is in the collection of The National Gallery of Aus­tralia (NGA), Canberra and their Unforseen Circumstances, Act Two (2004/05) is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, together with Julie Rrap’s Camouflage #4 (Eiko) (2000). One of Peter Callas’ video works from the Anti-Terrain series has been shown at the Museum of Art (MOMA), New York and Anne Zahalka’s The Cleaner (1986) is in the collection of the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA). Pat Brassington’s work The Wedding Guest is currently on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), in the collections of Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Art Gal­lery of South Australia and the Horsham Regional Art Gallery.

PETER DAVERINGTON

Peter Daverington, Victory, 2013, oil on canvas, 126 x 95 cm.

PETER DAVERINGTON is showing Victory as part of the group exhibition titled TGF Sports curated by Paul Brainard at the Lodge Gallery in New York, which explores aspects of self-discovery.

Artists: Paul Brainard, Chris Caccamise, Peter Daverington, TM Davy, Franklin Evans, Evie Falci, Dawn Frasch, Duncan Hannah, Kurt Kauper, Hyun Jin Alex Park, Jean Pierre Roy, Tom Sanford, Lane Twitchell, Eric White, Barnaby Whitfield, Kelli Williams

Exhibition Dates: December 13th, 2013 – January 12th, 2014 

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MURRAY FREDERICKS / ANNE SCOTT WILSON / PETER DAVERINGTON

Murray Fredericks, Hector Thunderstorm Project, still from video, 2011

ARC ONE announces Late-Night Projections at Cumulus Up in November, screening works by artists including ANNE SCOTT WILSON, PETER DAVERINGTON and MURRAY FREDERICKS.

Projections will take place onto Collins Place from the 1st floor of the restaurant and wine bar Cumulus where you can come enjoy a specially designed late night menu.

Dates: November 2 – 30 from 9:30pm to 12am.

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Peter Daverington, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 207 x 157 cm.

PETER DAVERINGTON’s exhibition From the Future with Love at ARC ONE (05.03.13 – 06.04.13) has been reviewed in ARTnews U.S.A., the oldest and most widely circulated art magazine in the world.

“The architectural elements in Daverington new paintings fracture into reflective splinters, which appear to shatter the painting’s surfaces to expose the underlying canvas while also disrupting our view of his idyllic landscapes.

 […]

“The single-channel video Arcadia, described by Daverington as a ‘moving-image painting”, takes viewers through three-dimensional renderings of a number of the architectures and landscapes depicted in the artist’s paintings, highlighting the diferencesd between physical and digital representation.”

-Kirsten Rann, ARTnews, September 2013, p110.

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Peter Daverington, From the Future with Love #2, Oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm.

PETER DAVERINGTON's work From the Future with Love #2 has been selected as a finalist in the Fleurieu Art Prize, 2013 - the largest landscape painting prize in the world.

This year, the Fleurieu Art Prize was judged by Nigel Hurst, Director and Chief Executive of the Saatchi Gallery, London.

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JANET LAURENCE / PETER DAVERINGTON / GUAN WEI

ARC ONE has the pleasure in showcasing three artists in the inaugural art auction for the Art Cabriolet, a charity in association with Mossgreen & George Calombaris, Loaded Brush & Gavel.  Artists JANET LAURENCE, PETER DAVERINGTON and GUAN WEI will each have a work in the auction, contributed by ARC ONE Gallery. These artists are included in the eleven of Australia’s leading contemporary artists’ that are exhibiting works for the auction.

This event is a great opportunity to feature work by some of ARC ONE's artists and the event will also raise funds for children in trauma, through the medium of art and art therapy.  The auction will be held at Mossgreen, 310 Toorak Road, South Yarra, Victoria, 3141 on Thursday 15 August 2013.

For more information on the event click here.

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PETER DAVERINGTON has been shortlisted in a world-wide competition to find the top 100 Painters of Tomorrow.

The project, developed by London gallerist Kurt Beers from Beer.Lambert Contemporary, in collaboration with publishers Thames and Hudson, will ultimately result in a book featuring the 100 selected artists, and a major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. From 4,300 entries, Daverington is one of 427 artists shortlisted, who hail from 47 countries in total, with only 10 other Australians being included.

Kurt Beers was inspired to begin the project due to what he felt was a 'marked trend in which many talented artists – in this particular case, painters – were growing increasingly frustrated due to what they felt was an overwhelming lack of opportunities directed toward them,' - find the interview here.

Judges of the final list of 100 painters include: Cecily Brown, Sir Norman Rosenthal, Yuko Hasegawa, Gregor Muir, Suzanne Cotter, Suzanne Hudson, Philip Tinari, and Barry Schwabsky. 

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PETER DAVERINGTON

PETER DAVERINGTON'S Archibald finalist work, The Patriot: self portrait with Albino Joey (2013), will be at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery until the 7th of July 2013 as a part of the national regional tour of the finalist works.

For more information go to:

http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Home

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PETER DAVERINGTON has been honored with the commission of the first government endorsed street art mural in Shanghai.  Commissioned by Shanghai's Minhang District Health Bureau, the mural celebrates World Blood Donors Day, 2013 aiming to raise awareness and recognise the contribution of unpaid voluntary blood donors.

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PETER DAVERINGTON

PETER DAVERINGTON's painting The New Colony has been included in the upcoming exhibition New Horizons, opening at Gippsland Art Gallery in June. The exhibition is to showcase the next phase of contemporary landscape painting in Australia - works with futuristic outlooks, presenting a world that has become synthetic, constructed, magnified, modified or otherwise manipulated.

From curator Simon Gregg:
"This is the next phase of Australian painting- at its most dynamic and dramatic."  

New Horizons will be open 1 June- 25 August 2013.

More information here.

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Opening 6 April at Linden Contemporary Art Centre, PETER DAVERINGTON is included in the show Innovators 1 with his animation ARCADIA

Innovators 1 presents the work of five artists who explore the human condition. They each comment on the man made versus the organic; past, present and future; concepts of reality and imagination through time-based work. 

From Linded Art Centre.

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Peter Daverington, The patriot: self-portrait with Albino Joey, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 203x153cm, 2013.

PETER DAVERINGTON has been selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize and the Sir John Sulman Prize, 2013.  

Pictured above: Daverington's Archibald Prize finalist portrait, The patriot: self-portrait with Albino Joey, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 203x153cm, 2013.  Photo courtesy of the artist.

The Wynne, Archibald and Sulman Prize finalists can be viewed at the Art Gallery of New South Waies from 23 March - 2 June 2013.

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Peter Daverington features in The Age Melbourne Magazine (March ed., p. 57) in the Best of Art section, written by Penny Webb.

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From the Future with Love, a vibrant exhibition of Peter Daverington’s new paintings and the Australian debut of his animation, Arcadia, will be at ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne from 5 March-6 April 2013.  This will be the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery.  An opening reception will be held on Saturday March 9 from 4 – 6pm.

In From the Future with Love, Daverington presents us with a testing ground for the limits of painting.  Daverington’s simulated landscapes and multiple architectural geometries – ever so precisely represented in his earlier works – are now summoned to a Formalist deconstruction.  The breaking down of the canvas’s pictorial surface creates a fantasmic world, captured by Daverington’s fractured architectural planes.

Evolving his trademark painterly visual codes of landscape, architecture and geometries of space, Daverington continues his exploration into the collapse of traditional western symbols of landscape—inspired by the traditions of the Italian Renaissance and German Romanticism.

Daverington’s debut animation work Arcadia, (2012) (HD, single channel video 8:54 mins), propels his aesthetic into a fluid and immersive virtual world. The artist’s own musical score accompanies Arcadia’s haunting and meditative articulation of moving space. The skilfully composed melodic sounds reveal Daverington’s mastery of musical performance and composition. The exhibition will include limited edition animation stills and mixed media collages inspired by Arcadia.

This project has been assisted by the City of Port Phillip through the Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship.

For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com

PETER DAVERINGTON

As part of the exhibition PEEKSKILL PROJECT V - PETER DAVERINGTON's new video work Arcadia (2012) is currently on view at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York. The exhibition will be open until 13 February.

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PETER DAVERINGTON will be exhibiting in The Santa Fe International New Media Festival/ June 22 - July 8, 2012. Currents 2012, the Third Annual Santa Fe international New Media Festival will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexicco, USA. The festival explores the role of technology and the diverse applications of New Media in the arts.

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PETER DAVERINGTON is included in a group show called Under The Influence, in the LOFT, Brooklyn, New York.

The exhibition opens May 16th, 6-9pm and continues until May 20th.

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PETER DAVERINGTON features in this month's (March) Art Monthly. The article is written by Kirsten Rann.

PETER DAVERINGTON currently lives and works in New York.