Over the past ten years he has turned his attention to screenprinting and etching, building up an impressive body of graphic work.ĭavenport has exhibited extensively across the world, including major institutional shows at Dundee Contemporary Arts (1999) Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2004) Tate Liverpool (2000) and Dallas Contemporary, Texas (2018). This technique allows him to explore complex arrangements of line and colour. In recent years his work has consisted of carefully poured lines of acrylic paint down a surface, which puddle and pool at the bottom. Ian Davenport is well known for his abstract paintings, which explore process and materiality. He graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art, London, in 1988 and as one of the generation of Young British Artists he participated in the seminal 1988 exhibition Freeze. In 1991 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, for which he remains the youngest ever nominee, and in 1999 was a prize winner in the John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool. Two years after graduating Davenport had his first solo show at Waddington Galleries, London, in 1990. Ian Davenport was born in Kent, England, in 1966.
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