Ian Davenport (born 8 July 1966) is an English abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee.
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Born | (1966-07-08) 8 July 1966 (age 55) Sidcup, London, England |
Education | Northwich College of Art and Design, Goldsmiths College |
Known for | Painting, Printmaking |
Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup, and studied art at the Northwich College of Art and Design in Cheshire and then at Goldsmiths College, where he graduated in 1988.[2] HIs that year he exhibited in the Freeze exhibition organised by Damien Hirst.[citation needed] His first solo show was in 1990 and in the same year he was included in the British Art Show. In 1991, he was nominated for the annual Turner Prize.[3][4]
Many of his works are made by pouring paint onto a tilted surface and letting gravity spread the paint over the surface.[5]
For the Days Like These exhibition at Tate Britain in 2003, he made a thirteen-metre-high mural by dripping lines of differently-coloured paint down the wall from a syringe. In September 2006 he unveiled his largest public commission to date on Southwark Bridge, entitled Poured Lines: Southwark.[citation needed] He painted the West End Wall of the University of Oxford Department of Biochemistry.[6]
Stylistic comparisons have been made between his work and that of Bridget Riley, Helen Frankenthaler and Callum Innes.[7]
A monograph on him was published in 2014.[8]
He is a Patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.[9]
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