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. 

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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. 

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Peter Daverington, Learn From the Classics – But Please Don’t Destroy Them, 2015, oil, enamel and gesso on canvas, 198 x 152cm.

Peter Daverington has been listed as the 5th most exciting street artist working today by artnet News.  

An Australian-born artist now based in Beacon, New York, Peter Daverington took up street art at the tender age of 11. As an adult, he’s developed a style all his own, juxtaposing stylized graffiti lettering with superbly-modeled figures that appear to have stepped out of a Renaissance-era canvas. 

Read the entire article here. 

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Andrew Frost talks to PETER DAVERINGTON about his latest exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, Weltlandschaft, in a fantastic interview published today on The Art Life. 

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Peter Daverington, Akkadian Landscape, 2016, oil on canvas, 158 x 122 cm.

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Peter Daverington, Jacob's Tent, 2016, oil on linen, 122 x 92 cm.

New York-based Australian artist Peter Daverington returns to Melbourne this November with an exhibition of new paintings, titled Weltlandschaft. Opening drinks will be held on Thursday 10 November, 6-8pm. 

A contemporary painter of rare technical distinction, Peter Daverington has garnered significant recognition for his unparalleled ability to mix pictorial styles and art genres. In his latest exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, Daverington explores the landscape painting tradition of 16th century Northern Europe with a mélange of fantastical interjections. Against a backdrop of rolling valleys, cavernous skies and trees, seemingly- endless paths lead to covert horizons, rivers stream down floating geometric planes, and mountainous forms are peppered with candy-stripes, flaming tops and carnivalesque motifs. Moving away from linear perspective in favour of more isometric projections of space, Daverington creates captivating pictorial ‘maps’ that encourage the viewer to travel the canvas at free will. 

The exhibition’s German title, Weltlandschaft, meaning ‘world landscape’, refers to a period in Netherlandish painting of imaginary panoramic landscapes depicted from encompassing, elevated viewpoints. Inspired by the work of Joachim Patinir and Hieronymous Bosch, Daverington fuses these compositional techniques with his own unique aesthetic to create truly contemporary and surreal interpretations of the genre. In these landscapes early Renaissance, geometric hard-edge painting and even 1980s videogame design find an unlikely harmony. 

With several of the works’ titles referencing Sumerian mythology, Daverington seeks out points of connection across periods and cultures, and weaves a mythical narrative that reflects his own longstanding interest in ancient history, Mesopotamia and painting traditions beyond the West. In Weltlandschaft, Peter Daverington presents fantastic topologies of the imagination; he transforms us into armchair travellers, contemplating bygone and imagined vistas made mystic in a playful engagement of the unknown. 

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PETER DAVERINGTON is a Finalist in the 2016 John Leslie Art Prize at the Gippsland Art Gallery. According to Curator Simon Greeg, his shortlisted work, The Floating Terraces of Philistinia, "continues the plot to derail common sense. We discover a monochrome world densely populated with floating checkerboard planes, connected by hovering steps. Such fractured, 'world' landscapes were popularised by Dutch artists in the sixteenth century, and while Daverington similarly employs multiple narratives through a steeply raked panorama, he does so only to hold a mirror to the absurdity of our 'real' world."

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Peter Daverington, The Floating Terraces of Phillistinia, 2016, oil on canvas, 158 x 122cm. 

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Congratulations to PETER DAVERINGTON who has been selected as a finalist in the 10th Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award. 

This is one of Australia's most loved and richest portrait awards, the biennial award celebrates realistic portraiture. The winner will be announced by judge Dr. Christopher Chapman, National Portrait Gallery, on Friday 17 June at the Bega Valley Regional Gallery.  

The 10th Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award exhibition will run from 17 June to 20 August.

Peter Daverington, Self Portrait of the Artist, 2015, oil and gesso on canvas, 40 x 30cm. 

PETER DAVERINGTON, LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN

Peter Daverington, Expedition to the Snowy Mountains, 2016, oil and enamel on linen, 122 x 91 cm

Lyndell Brown/Charles Green & Jon Cattapan, Untitled (Look II), 2016, digital print with alkyd-modified oil paint on Duraclear, mounted on perspex, 100 x 100 cm

Congratulations to PETER DAVERINGTON and LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN & JON CATTAPAN, who have been selected as Finalists in the 2016 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize! 

The opening event and winner announcement is Thursday 12 May, 6-8pm, at the Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, Brighton. The exhibition runs to 26 June 2016.

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Geoffrey Edwards, former Director of Victoria’s Geelong Gallery, details a stunning painting by PETER DAVERINGTON in a recent article in The Australian.

Welcome to the Pleasure Dome-A Homage to Bierstadt and Death of a Frontier is part of the Geelong Gallery collection and is currently on display at the gallery. 

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Peter Daverington, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome-A Homage to Bierstadt and Death of a Frontier, 2009, oil and enamel on canvas, 183 x 154cm.

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PETER DAVERINGTON's work will feature in Divine Abstraction, the inaugural show at Justin Art House Museum in Prahan, Victoria. 

Curated by Rachael Kohn, presenter and producer of ‘The Spirit of Things’ on ABC Radio National, the exhibition explores how ‘abstract art’, using examples drawn from the Justin Collection, can represent the various manifestations of the ‘abstract divine’.

Divine Abstraction will run March - May, 2016.

Peter Daverington, An Imbricated Universe, 2006, oil and enamel on linen, 122 x 153cm. 

PAT BRASSINGTON / PETER DAVERINGTON / JULIE RRAP

Pat Brassington, Voicing, 2001, Digitial colour print, 93.4 x 127.4 cm. 

PAT BRASSINGTON, PETER DAVERINGTON and JULIE RRAP are included in the latest major exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia. Lurid Beauty considers the legacies of Surrealism in Australia and is on show from 9 Oct 2015 to 31 Jan 2016.

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Peter Daverington, Learn From the Classic - But Please Don't Destroy Them, 2015, oil, enamel and gesso on canvas, 183 x 154cm

The Lodge Gallery, NYC, will open an exhibition of new paintings by PETER DAVERINGTON on 9 September 2015. The exhibition, Iconophilia, is an adventure through the historical cannons of western art. From the invention of oil paint right up into the graffiti tags and throw ups of old school New York street artists, Daverington plunders and appropriates from a vast archive of visual imagery.

The exhibition will run through to 11 October 2015.

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CHASM Gallery in Brooklyn will feature a solo exhibition by PETER DAVERINGTON titled Lacuna. Including sculpture and painting, Lacuna references the process of the artist removing pieces of the artwork, effecting in exposed raw canvas and the foam substrate under the plaster of the sculptures. As a result, the artworks denote loss and decay with use of techniques applied in art history.

Lacuna is on display 13 March – 5 April 2015.

Peter Daverington, Jonathan (installation detail with painting in background), 2014, styrofoam, epoxy clay, wire mesh, gold leaf, plaster, resin, glass eye, enamel, pigments, 76 x 40.5 x 30.5 cm 

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Peter Daverington, Learn from the Classics, 2015, oil on canvas, 198 x 152 cm

PETER DAVERINGTON is participating in The (un)Scene Art Show in NYC. Daverington makes reference to various styles and techniques throughout art history in his new painting Learn from the Classics.

Learn From the Classics belongs to a new body of work that seeks a way forward in painting by looking back through the history of western art from the Ancient Greeks to Modernism. Through a process of assimilation and juxtaposition of different styles, periods and techniques I aim to create a hybrid of representational painting. This particular work was inspired by Roman fresco wall paintings where the Lacuna (missing parts or gaps) becomes an integral part of the composition. The underlying image, which has been sanded down and distressed, is a reference to the work of Eugene Delacroix, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1862.

The (un)Scene Art Show is on from March 4 – 8, part of Armory Arts Week.

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Peter Daverington's Bald Eagle on the front page of The New York Times.

PETER DAVERINGTON has made the front page of The New York Times for his participation in a mural project by the National Audubon Society. Across Manhattan, the project aims to promote the National Audubon Society's campaign to raise awareness of North American birds threatened by climate change. This street art project takes inspiration from John James Audubon's watercolour works The Birds of America and includes 314 roll-down gates which are all painted as bird themed murals.

To read the article and view a video on the project click here.

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Peter Daverington, ‘The Golden City Has Ceased’, 2012, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 335.3 x 243.8 cm.

PETER DAVERINGTON’s phenomenal The Golden City Has Ceased (2012) is part of the Archibald Prize 2014 touring exhibition, currently at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. This will be the only venue in Victoria presenting the exhibition in 2014. The Archibald Prize was established at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1921 to award the best Australian Portraits of its time.

The exhibition runs to 16 November. For more information click here. 

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Peter Daverington, The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, 2014, oil on canvas, 260 x 198 cm

The Age newspaper features an article on PETER DAVERINGTON's exhibition Because Painting. The article describes the large scaled paintings as visually loaded, showcasing his masterful technique and incorporating multiple styles and motifs throughout the history of painting all at once.

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Peter Daverington, From the Future with Love #2, 2013, oil on canvas, 122 x 91 cm

PETER DAVERINGTON’s paintings From the Future with Love #1 and From the Future with Love #2 are part of the group exhibition Render curated by Simone Hine, currently showing at Screen Space, Melbourne. Artists alongside Peter Daverington include Magda Cebokli, Warren Hine and Zac Koukoravas. The exhibition is on from 9 August – 13 September 2014.

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Peter Daverington, The Golden City Has Ceased, 2012, oil on canvas, 335.3 x 243.8 cm

PETER DAVERINGTON’s spectacularly large painting, The Golden City Has Ceased, has been selected as a finalist for the Archibald Prize 2014. Renowned for being Australia’s favourite and most prestigious art award, the prize is awarded to the best portrait painting of Australian culture including, but not limited to, portraits of politicians, celebrities, sporting heroes and artists. Daverington describes the painting as ‘a self-portrait of my imagination, where my signature geometric and spatial elements appear among figurative compositions drawn from various painting traditions.’ The painting has been approached with spontaneity over 18 months, where Daverington has drawn inspiration from socialist propaganda posters, Renaissance art, Romantic landscape painting, medieval European heraldry and religious iconography. The winner will be announced on Friday 18 July and the exhibition will run between 19 July – 28 September 2014.

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Ahmet Erdogdular (left); Peter Daverington (right). Erdogdular photo by Ali Osman Erdogdular; Daverington photo courtesy of the artist.

In the month of July, PETER DAVERINGTON will showcase his extraordinary talent for the ney flute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, performing a series of Moroccan Court Music - the makam musical traditions of Turkey, the Balkans and the Levant.

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