Ian Davenport (born 8 July 1966) is an English abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee.

Life and work

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. HIs that year he exhibited in the '' Freeze'' exhibition organised by

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. His first solo show was in 1990 and in the same year he was included in the

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. In 1991, he was nominated for the annual Turner Prize.Serena Davies (19 August 2006)
Dance to the music of lines
''The Telegraph''. Accessed October 2013.Tom Teodorczuk (6 September 2006)

''London Evening Standard''. Accessed October 2013. Many of his works are made by pouring paint onto a tilted surface and letting

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spread the paint over the surface. For the ''Days Like These'' exhibition at

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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

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, entitled ''Poured Lines: Southwark''. He painted the West End Wall of the University of Oxford Department of Biochemistry. Stylistic comparisons have been made between his work and that of

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, Helen Frankenthaler and Callum Innes. A monograph on him was published in 2014. He is a Patron of

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, a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

References

External links

Ian Davenport Studio website
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