Ian Davenport

IAN DAVENPORT Artist Bio

BIOGRAPHY

1966 Born 8 July, Kent

1984-85 Northwich College of Art and Design, Cheshire

1985-88 Goldsmith's College of Art, London (B.A. Fine Art)

1991 Nominated for Turner Prize

1996-97 Commissioned to create a site-specific installation for Banque BNP Paribas in London

1999 Prizewinner John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 21

2000 Prizewinner Primo del Golfo, La Spezia, Italy

2002 Awarded first prize Prospects (sponsored by Pizza Express), Essor Project Space, London

2003 Makes a wall painting for the Groucho Club, London

2004 Commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society to make a wall painting for the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Warwick University, Warwick Wall Painting (pale grey)
Retrospective opens at Ikon, Birmingham, in September
Marries Sue Arrowsmith

2006 Poured Lines: Southwark Street, a 50 by 3 metre painting commissioned by Southwark Council and Land Securities as part of a regeneration project in Bankside, London, is installed under Southwark Western Bridge.
Commissioned to design a limited edition cover for the September issue of Wallpaper

2007 Commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to create an American Flag based on an environmentally friendly theme along with seven other artists to be featured in their 15th April issue. Ian's work is reproduced on the title page of the article 'The Power of Green'.
. Completed Poured Lines : QUBE Building, a 2.85 by 15 metre painting (water-based paint on aluminium panels) commissioned by Derwent London for the QUBE Building, Fitzrovia, London

Lives and works in London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1990 Waddington Galleries, London

1992 Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Galerie Limmer, Freiburg, Germany
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

1993 Waddington Galleries, London

1994 Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1996 Statements, Waddington Galleries, Art 27'96, Basel
Ridinghouse Editions, London
Waddington Galleries, London

1997 Galerie Limmer, Cologne
Galleria Moncada, Rome

1998 Galerie Xippas, Paris

1999 Dundee Contemporary Arts
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

2000 Waddington Galleries, London
Project Space, Tate Liverpool

2001 The Box Associati, Turin
Galerie Xippas, Paris
Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam

2003 Waddington Galleries, London
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2004 Ikon, Birmingham

2005 Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
Galerie Xippas, Paris

2006 Alan Cristea Gallery, London (prints)

2008 Waddington Galleries, London
Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2009 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (forthcoming)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1985 Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

1988 Freeze, Surrey Docks, London
Ian Davenport, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London

1989 Current, Swansea Arts Workshop (Old Seamen's Chapel), Swansea
West Norwood 1, West Norwood Railway Arches (7, 8, 9), London

1990 The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; touring to Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London
Painting Alone, Pace Gallery, New York

1990-91 Carnet de Voyages - 1, Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France

1991 British Art from 1930, Waddington Galleries, London
Metropolis Internationale Kunstausstellung, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London
Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis, James Nares, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Abstraction, Waddington Galleries, London
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London
New Displays, Tate Gallery, London
Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin

1991-92 Confrontaciones: Arte ultimo britanico y espanol, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid (in collaboration with the British Council)

1992 The Vertical Flatbed Picture Plane - En Valise, Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Dumb Painting, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
L'Attico, Fabio Sargentini, Rome
Gifts to the Nation: Contemporary Art Society Purchases, Camden Arts Centre, London

1992-95 New Voices: recent paintings from the British Council collection, British Council exhibition: touring to Centre de Conferences Albert Borschette, Brussels; Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg; Istanbul Greater City Municipality Taksim Art Gallery; Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery; Izfas Gallery, Izmir, Turkey; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain; Santa Monica Contemporary Art Centre, Barcelona; Centro Culturel Galileo, Madrid; Veronicas: Sala de Exposiciones, Murcia, Spain; Pescaderia Vieja: Sala de Arte, Jerez, Spain

1994 Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London
British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London
Summer 94, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
British Painting 1988–1994: a selection from stock, Richard Salmon Ltd, London

1995 From Here, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London
30 Years of Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

1995-96 Real Art - A New Modernism: British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s, Southampton City Art Gallery; touring to Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium; Leeds City Art Gallery

1996 Nuevas Abstracciones, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; touring to Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona
50 Jahre Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany
British Abstract Art Part 3: Works on Paper, Flowers East, London

1996-97 Ace! Arts Council Collection new purchases, South Bank Centre exhibition: touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Oldham Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

1996-98 About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; touring to The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

1997 Treasure Island, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Ian Davenport, Michael Craig-Martin, Zebedee Jones, Michael Landy and Fiona Rae, Waddington Galleries, London
Finish, Spacex Gallery, Exeter

1998 Elegant Austerity, Waddington Galleries, London
Up to 2000, Southampton City Art Gallery
Roberto Caracciolo, Ian Davenport, Galleria Moncada, Rome

1999 Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
A Line in Painting, Gallery Fine, London
John Moores Liverpool 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Now Showing II, Houldsworth Fine Art, London
21 years of Spacex, Spacex Gallery, Exeter

2000 Surface, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Fact and Value, Charlottenburg Udstillingsbygning, Denmark
Profiles of Young European Painting, Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, Italy

2001 Complementary Studies: Recent Abstract Painting, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Camberwell Artsweek 2001, Eger Architects, London
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London; touring to Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

2002 In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London
Prospects 2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Essor Gallery Project Space, London (sponsored by Pizza Express)
Super-Abstr-Action 2, Galerie No Code, Bologna
Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Rocket Gallery, London
Peintures - contrainte ou recette, Galerie du Cloître, Rennes (organised by L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Rennes)
Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam
Abstraction, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
John Moores 22, The Walker, Liverpool (part of the Liverpool Biennial 2002)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham; touring to other UK venues including Jerwood Space, London
Berlin/London/Minimal, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin
New Commissions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

2003 Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain, London
Blanc en Blanc, Galerie Xippas, Paris
Exodus: between promise and fulfilment, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Circular, Rocket Gallery, London
Prints Published by the Alan Cristea Gallery, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
On, Xippas Galerie, Athens

2004 Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
Other Times: Contemporary British Art, City Gallery, Prague (in association with the British Council)
Post Impact, Xippas Gallery, Athens
John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool


2005 Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue?, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin
Painting : London, Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice
Ian Davenport, Kaoru Tsunoda, Rachmanioff's, London
Elements of Abstraction, Southampton City Art Gallery

2006 Passion for Paint, Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol; National Gallery,
London; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Colour and Chemistry, Sherbourne House, Dorset
Compilation 2, Rocket Gallery, London
How to Improve the World British Art 1946-2006, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
Concrete Matters, Nieuwe Vide Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Thread, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Abstract Painting and the University of Warwick Art
Collection, Mead Gallery, Warwick
Monochromed , The Fine Art Society, London
Edition , Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
"The hardest thing to draw is a kiss." Wimbledon School of Art, London (curated by David Austen)
Compilation 3, Rocket Gallery, London


2006-2007 You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; touring with Hayward Gallery Touring to Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Lowry, Salford; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie House Museum, Carlisle

2006-2008 Drawing Breath, The Jerwood Drawing Prize - Special Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Art, London

2007 Painting in the Noughties, Regional Cultural Arts Centre, Letterkenny, Donegal The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Jerwood Space, London
Turner Prize A Retrospective 1984-2006, Tate Britain, London
New Space New Work, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (prints)
Between the Lines, Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea (prints)


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
The British Council
Contemporary Art Society
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
FNAC Fonds National d'art contemporain
The Government Art Collection (Department for Culture Media and Sport)
Museum of Modern Art, La Spezia, Italy
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Southampton City Art Gallery
Tate, London
Unilever, London
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Weltkunst Collection, Zurich

COMMISSIONS

1997 Banque Paribas, London (site-specific installation)

2004 Maths and Science Building, University of Warwick, commissioned by the university through its involvement in the Contemporary Art Society's lottery-funded special collections project

2006 Poured Lines: Southwark Street, Southwark Western Bridge, London (commissioned by Southwark Council and Land Securities)
Commissioned by Wallpaper magazine to create a limited-edition cover for their September issue as part of their 10th-anniversary series

2007 Commissioned by The New York Times to create an American Flag based on an environmentally friendly theme, to be reproduced in their issue published on 15th April
Poured Lines : QUBE Building, Tottenham Court Road, London (commissioned by Derwent London)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1988 Shone, Richard: 'London Summer Exhibitions', The Burlington Magazine, August, vol.CXXX, no.1025, p.646
Craddock, Sacha: 'The fast Dockland track to simplicity', The Guardian, 13 September
Jeffrey, Ian (intro.): 'Platonic Tropics', Freeze (catalogue), Surrey Docks, London

1989 Shone, Richard: 'Ian Davenport, Gary Hume, Michael Landy', The Burlington Magazine, January, vol.CXXXI, no.1030, p.56
Archer, Michael: 'Ian Davenport, Gary Hume, Michael Landy at Karsten Schubert Gallery', Artforum, February, vol.XXVII, no.6, p.147
Bulloch, Angela: 'Freeze', Art & Design, vol.5, no.3/4, pp.52–53
'British Artists Under 40', Art & Design, vol.5, no.3/4, p.83

1990 Graham-Dixon, Andrew: 'Pupils of the cool school', The Independent, 30 January
Hilton, Tim: 'Home groan', The Guardian, 31 January
Gillick, Liam: 'Ian Davenport', Artscribe, March/April, no.80, p.57
Bush, Kate: 'The British Art Show 1990, McLellan Galleries', Artscribe, May, no.81, p.71
Carter, Miranda: 'The Tote Gallery', Harpers & Queen, August, pp.96–99
Bevan, Roger: 'Ian Davenport', Galleries, October, p.22
Graham-Dixon, Andrew: 'Leaving a mark', The Independent, 9 October
Kent, Sarah: 'Ian Davenport - Waddington's', Time Out, 10–17 October, p.39
Jennings, Rose: 'Ian Davenport - Waddington's', City Limits, 11–18 October
Feaver, William: 'Hear hear, O Israel', The Observer, 14 October
Hicks, Alistair: 'New star's course seems all too predictable', The Times, 19 October
Beaumont, Mary Rose: 'Ian Davenport - Waddington Galleries', Arts Review, 19 October, pp.560–561
Auty, Giles: 'Capricious climates', The Spectator, 20 October
Williams, Joseph: 'Creative accountancy', The Times, 23 October
Cornall, John: 'Minimal Realism in The British Art Show 1990', London Magazine, October/November, vol.30, nos.7&8, pp.122–126
Graham-Dixon,Andrew: 'Young Turks and Old Masters', Art News, November, pp.124
Shone, Richard: 'London, Davenport at Waddington', The Burlington Magazine, November, vol.CXXXII, no.1052, pp.804–5
Juncosa, Enrique: 'Ian Davenport', Lapiz, November, issue no.72, p.73
Kaneda, Shirley: 'Painting Alone', Arts Magazine, December, vol.65, no.4, p.84
Bevan, Roger: 'Abstract', Antique and New Art, Winter, pp.138–139
Rosenthal, Norman: Ian Davenport (catalogue), Waddington Galleries, London
Crone, Rainer and David Moos: Painting Alone (catalogue), Pace Gallery, New York
Davenport, Ian: 'Notes on Painting', The British Art Show 1990 (catalogue), South Bank Centre, London

1991 Feaver, William: 'Ian Davenport: Waddington', ARTnews, January, p.170
Renton, Andrew: 'Ian Davenport - Waddington', Flash Art International, January/February, vol.XXIV, no.156, p.137
InterAlia (Dave Beech and Mark Hutchinson): 'Ian Davenport at Waddington Galleries', Artscribe, January/February, no.85, pp.75–6
Rankin-Reid, Jane: 'Painting Alone', Artscribe, January/February, no.85, pp.85–86
Lillington, David: 'Ik doe steeds minder en de verf steeds meer', Metropolis M, February, no.1, pp.45–47
Hall, James: 'London: Artists Explore the Nature of Power', Art International, Spring/Summer, p.71
Graham-Dixon, Andrew: 'Ian Davenport's supremely simple paintings are masterpieces of Surface Tension', Vogue, April, pp.204–207
Dannatt, Adrian: 'Big lights, bright city', The Times Saturday Review, 13 April
Gillick, Liam: 'The Placebo Effect: Some Art in Britain', Arts Magazine, May, pp.56–59
Shone, Richard: 'Profile: Young, gifted and painting it black', The Times Saturday Review, 4 May, p.18
Dorment, Richard: 'A prize turnabout', The Daily Telegraph, 16 July, p.14
Gale, Iain and Dalya Alberge: 'Youth and beauty?', The Independent, 16 July, p.17
Hall, James: 'Pure Gold(smiths')', New Statesman & Society, 2 August, pp.50–51
Auty, Giles: 'Breath of Ayr', The Spectator, 3 August, p.37
Bernard, Bruce: 'Salvage from the Wreck', The Independent Magazine, 3 August, pp.36–39
Packer, William: 'The diminishing value of novelty', The Financial Times, 6 August
Hall, Charles: 'Tests of raw nerves', The Sunday Times, 11 August
Hilton, Tim: 'Composition with old hat', The Guardian, 14 August, p.30
Kent, Sarah: 'Breaking Ground', Time Out, 14 August
Collings, Matthew: 'ART reviews', City Limits, 15 August, p.18
Barwick, Sandra: 'No no no! said the general public', The Independent, 24 August
Stock, Jon: 'Acclaim for the Class of '88', The Daily Telegraph, 29 August, p.15
Interview with Ian Davenport from article 'Abstract Art Now: The European Situation', The Journal of Art, September, vol.4, no.7, p.26
Rainbird, Sean: 'Ian Davenport', The Turner Prize 1991 (broadsheet), Tate Gallery, London
Morgan, Stuart: 'The Turner Prize...this year's shortlist, its past failings and future alternatives', Frieze, vol.1, October/November, pp.4–7
Morgan, Stuart: 'Ian Davenport', Frieze, vol.1, October/November, p.7
Bevan, Roger: 'Controversy over the Turner Prize short-list', The Art Newspaper, no.12, November
Bevan, Roger: 'The Turner Prize', Galleries, vol.IX, no.6, November
Feaver, William: 'notices...The Prize Fight', Vogue, 1 November
Cohen, David: 'A new generation driven beyond abstraction', The Times Saturday Review, 2 November, pp.14–15
Cork, Richard: 'Give the prize to Kapoor', The Times Saturday Review, 2 November, pp.15,17
Sewell, Brian: 'Mockery nook', The Evening Standard, 7 November, p.30
Cork, Richard: 'Young, gifted and rising too fast', The Times, 8 November, p.14
Feaver, William: 'Gerhard Richter's shades of grey, may times removed', The Observer, 10 November, p.57
Kent, Sarah: 'Prize Fighters', Time Out, 13–20 November
Auty, Giles: 'The Cringe before the binge', The Spectator, 16 November, pp.57–58
Hall, James: 'New kids on the block', New Statesman and Society, 22 November, pp.36–37
McEwen, John: The Sunday Telegraph, 24 November, p.13
Farson, Daniel: 'Trendies set in concrete', The Mail on Sunday, 24 November, p.41
Sewell, Brian: 'Suspicion and distrust step into the picture', The Daily Telegraph, 26 November
Packer, William: 'The changing expectations of the Turner Prize', The Financial Times, 26 November
Hilton, Tim: 'The £20,000 game of charades', The Guardian, 26 November
Graham-Dixon, Andrew: 'Je m'accuse', The Independent, 26 November
Knight Bruce, Rory: 'Lashings of champagne and streams of consciousness', The Evening Standard, 27 November
Sewell, Brian: 'assesses the Turner Prize finalists', The Evening Standard, 27 November, p.19
Lister, David: 'Art prize launched into illusory space', The Independent, 27 November, p.6
Dutt, Robin: 'Glittering prizes and endless compromises', What's On In London, 27 November, p.19
Hall, Charles: 'Turner Prize 1991', Arts Review, vol.XVLIII, no.24, 29 November
Andreae, Christopher: 'Art Prizes: Outdated idea or Useful Tool?', The Christian Science Monitor, December
van den Boogerd, Dominic and David Lillington: 'Cool, clean and clever', Metropolis M, December, no.6, pp.40–43
Jeffrey, Ian: 'Hot Properties', London Magazine, vol.31, nos.9&10, December/January 1992, pp.117–120
Packer, William: 'Just So: The Turner Prize', Modern Painters, Winter, vol.4, no.4, p.9
Graham-Dixon, Andrew: Broken English (broadsheet), Serpentine Gallery, London
Metropolis (catalogue), Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
Renton, Andrew and Liam Gillick (ed.): Technique Anglaise: Current Trends in British Art, Thames and Hudson, One-Off Press, London

1991-92 Confrontaciones, Arte ultimo britanico y espanol (catalogue), Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid

1992 'In den Farbfeldern versunken', Westdeutsche Zeitung (German), 18 February
H.A.N.: 'Archaische, fast spröde Abstraktionen', Rheinische Post (German), 27 February
Reinke, Klaus U.: 'Galerien: Abstrakte Malerei und conceptuelle Skulptur', Handelsblatt (German), 17 March
Bacon, George: 'Segal per Roosevelt, la macelleria di Kiki Smith, l'escordio di Davenport, Judd e Flavin' Il Giornale dell'arte, no.100, March, pp.89
Madoff, Steven Henry: 'A New Lost Generation', ARTnews, vol.9, no.4, April, pp.72–77
Cotter, Holland: 'Ian Davenport at Paul Kasmin', The New York Times, 12 June
Figee, Thea: 'Stomme' schilderkunst bewijst dat schilderen nog leeft', Utrechts Nieuwsblad, 20 July
Hoek, Els: 'Het domme schilderij is zwart, of anarchistisch of schildert zichzelf', De Volkskrant, 20 July
Peeters, Mark: ''Domme Kunst' luidt tijd in van nieuwe abstracties', NRC Handelsblad, 24 July
van Veelen, Ijsbrand: 'Gezapigheid is verward met verstilling en poëzie', Parool, 13 August
Pardee, Hearne: 'Davenport at Paul Kasmin', ARTnews, October, vol.91, no.89
Burley, Leo: 'Loser takes it all', The Independent, 3 November
Hall, James: 'The Year of the Shark', ARTnews, vol.91, no.10, December, pp.72–73
New Voices: New Works for the British Council Collection (catalogue), The British Council
Ian Davenport (catalogue), Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany; Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin; Galerie Limmer, Freiburg, Germany

1993 Bernard, Kate: 'Tempera fugit', Harpers & Queen, March, pp.150–53,154
Gleadell, Colin: 'Art Market: Degrees of Exposure', Galleries, June, vol.XI, no.1, p.20
Bevan, Roger: 'London: Dealers & Galleries', The Art Newspaper, June, p.34
Lillington, David: 'Dulux dogged', Time Out, 16–23 June
Gayford, Martin: 'Gallery Round-Up', The Daily Telegraph, 23 June
Packer, William: 'Master pourer of thick paint', The Financial Times, 29 June, p.13
Auty, Giles: 'Paint's potential', The Spectator, 3 July
Hall, Charles: 'No Head for Figures', Art Review, July/August, pp.32–35
Hedley, Gill and Brett Rogers: 'New Voices' - British Painting: A Selection 1989–1992/'Noves Veus' - Pintura britanic: Una seleccio 1989–1992 (catalogue: English/Catalan) (translated to Catalan by Eva LLorens), The British Council
Shone, Richard: Ian Davenport (catalogue), Waddington Galleries, London

1994 Spiegel, Olga: 'New British Painting at the Centre d'Art S. Monica', La Vanguardia, 19 March
Juncosa, Enrique: 'New Voices British Painting 1989–1992', El Pais, 3 April
San-Millan, Marga R.: 'Arte vanguardista, libre de complejos', El Mundo del Pais Vasco, 4 May
Wilson, Wade: 'A linear perspective with pared-down parameters', Fort Worth Star - Telegram, 5 June
Kutner, Janet: 'Deep tones in a narrow range', The Dallas Morning News, 18 June
Hall, James: 'Abstracted Brits', The Guardian, 8 August
Hilton, Tim: 'A brush with the unexpected', The Independent on Sunday, 14 August, p.21
Auty, Giles: 'Hermetic Society', The Spectator, 20 August, p.38
Gayford, Martin: 'Only the descriptive details have been left out', The Sunday Telegraph, 28 August
Packer, William: 'Abstract virtues', The Financial Times, 30 August
Searle, Adrian: 'Hi-ho, hi-ho, off to work they go', The Independent, 30 August
Myerson, Clifford: 'On Painting I', Art Monthly, no.179, September, pp.13–16
Muller, Brian: 'On Painting II', Art Monthly, no.179, September, pp.18–20
Corbin, Simon: 'British Abstraction - Flowers East Gallery', What's On In London, September 7
Muller, Brian: 'A Real Art, New Modernism, British Reflexive Painters in the 1990's', Art Line Magazine, vol.6, no.2, pp.36–43
Robertson, Bryan (intro.): British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting (catalogue), Flowers East, London

1995 Searle, Adrian: 'Any colour you like as long as it's a joke', The Independent, 4 April
Hilton, Tim: 'Fate, hopelessness, little clarity', The Independent on Sunday, 9 April
Feaver, William: 'From the sublime to the ridiculous', The Observer, 9 April
Gayford, Martin: 'The medium that refused to die', The Daily Telegraph, 12 April
Coomer, Martin: 'From Here', Time Out, 19–26 April
Archer, Michael: 'Licensed to Paint', Art Monthly, no.186, May, pp.8–10
Muller, Brian: 'Real Art - A New Modernism: British Reflexive Painters in the Nineties', Art Press, no.202, May, pp.51–55
'Degrees of Importance', Art Review, June, p.24
Maloney, Martin: 'London: Current British art', The Burlington Magazine, no.1007, vol.CXXXVII, June, pp.405–7
Jackson, Kevin: 'the colours of money', Arena, July/August, pp.64–68
Wilson, Andrew: 'Breaking Content from Form', Art and Design: British Art - Defining the 90s, Academy Editions, London, pp.7–19
Wilson, Andrew (intro.): From Here (catalogue), Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London
Simpson, Michael: Northern Young Contemporaries (catalogue), Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Muller, Brian (intro.): Real Art - A New Modernism: British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s (catalogue), Southampton City Art Gallery
Searle, Adrian (intro.): New Voices (catalogue - revised edition), The British Council

1996 Maloney, Martin: 'Southampton and London: Current abstract painters', The Burlington Magazine, January, pp.45–46
O.R.: 'Ian Davenport', Technikart, no.4, April–May, p.56
Stiftel, Ralf: 'Die Schönheit kehrt zurück', Westfälischer Anzeiger (Germany), 26 July
Wiese, Heidi: 'Schönheit ist wieder erlaubt', Westfalen-Blatt (Germany), 26 July
Lüddemann, Stefan: 'Kühle Bildstrategien', Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (Germany), 27 July
Strecker, Manfred: 'Unbeschwert malen', Neue Westfälische (Germany), 27 July
'Bielefelder Kunsthalle ist ein Leuchtturm der Region', Westfalen-Blatt (Germany), 29 July
Müller, Michael-Georg: 'Geschüttelte Farben und grosse Formate', Westfälische Rundschau (Germany), 2 August
Thiede, Veit-Mario: 'An rosa Schokolade glauben, Trierischer Volksfreund (Germany), Trier, 10–11 August
'Around the galleries: Still room for a thin line', The Times, 17 September
Coomer, Martin: 'Ian Davenport: Waddington/Ridinghouse Editions', Time Out, 2–9 October
Maloney, Martin: 'On Process Art: Mono 2000', Artforum, October, vol.XXXV, no.2, pp.36–37
Wilson, Andrew: 'Ian Davenport', Art Monthly, no.200, October, pp.55–57
Lucie-Smith, Edward: 'Critic's Diary', Art Review, November, p.18
Archer, Michael: 'Ian Davenport: Waddington Galleries/Riding House Editions', Artforum, November, vol.XXXV, no.3
Packer, William: 'A talent for the derivative', The Financial Times, 12 November
Feaver, William: 'Crooked Style', The Observer, 17 November
Graham-Dixon, Andrew: 'On the surface', The Independent, 19 November, pp.4–5
Cork, Richard: 'Paint your bandwagon', The Times, 31 December
Wilson, Andrew: 'The Vision Thing', Art Monthly, no.202, December 96–January 97, pp.7–9
Juncosa, Enrique, Arthur C. Danto and Demetrio Paparoni (essays): nuevas abstracciones (catalogue), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid/Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Danto, Arthur C. and Enrique Juncosa (essays): abstrakte Malerei heute/nuevas abstracciones (catalogue), Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Robson, Gavin: Ace! Arts Council Collection new purchases (exhibition broadsheet), South Bank Centre, London
Shone, Richard: 'Ian Davenport', 50 Jahre Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal (catalogue), Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany
Davenport, Ian (artist's statement): 'Statements: Waddington Galleries', Art 27'96 (catalogue), Basel
Maloney, Martin (intro.): Ian Davenport New Paintings (catalogue), Waddington Galleries, London
Elliott, David (intro.): About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s (catalogue), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (includes artist's statement)
Bonn, Sally: L'Art en Angleterre 1945–1995, Nouvelles Editions Françaises, Paris

1997 Lambirth, Andrew: 'Fashion parade', The Spectator, 4 January, pp.40–41
'A brush with genius: Ian Davenport on Claude Monet's Water-Lilies', The Guardian, 14 January, p.13
Shone, Richard: 'Oxford: About Vision', The Burlington Magazine, March, pp.208–209
Rondi, Joëlle: 'About Vision', Art Press, no.222, March, pp.64–65
Bevan, Roger: 'Babes in arms: Forty under Forty', The Art Newspaper, no.67, February, pp.23–26
Roos, Renate: 'Spiel mit der Farbe in Raum und Zeit', Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, no.72, 26 March, p.12
Hucht, Margarete: 'Bilder, in denen man sich spiegeln kann', Kölner Kultur, 2 April
MacMillan, Duncan: 'Too tight a corner for painting', The Scotsman, 14 April
M.Z.: 'Ian Davenport: Valentina Moncada', Anno, XIII, no.40–41, Autumn
Di Genova, Arianna: 'Ian Davenport', Il Manifesto (Rome), 9 November
Pieroni, Augusto: 'Intervista a Ian Davenport', Artel, No.72, 16–30 November
Thau, Eva: 'Davenport e la monocromia', Time Out (Italian edition), November
Patrick, Keith: 'Editorial', Contemporary Visual Arts (special focus: the condition of painting), issue 15, pp.13–15
Mulder, Jorge and Rui Sanches (intro.): Treasure Island (catalogue), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, pp.262–263
Collings, Matthew: Blimey!, 21 Publishing, Cambridge
Button, Virginia: The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery Publishing, London

1998 Patel, Kam: 'Brit Art's foundation figure', The Times Higher, February 6, pp.18–19
Pieroni, Augusto: 'Ian Davenport: Galleria Moncada, Roma', Tema Celeste, March
The Courier & Advertiser (Dundee), 22 August
Polinaires, Cléan: 'Davenport: La Maîtrise du Hasard', Beaux-Arts (Paris), no.172, September, p.26
Symons, Sophie (intro.): Elegant Austerity (catalogue), Waddington Galleries, London
Symons, Sophie (intro.): Ian Davenport (catalogue), Galerie Xippas, Paris

1999 Moszynska, Anna: 'Jackson Pollock Revisited', Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 22, pp.46–53
'Painters on Pollock', tate: the art magazine, issue 17, Spring, pp.32–33 (includes artist's statement)
Jeffrey, Moira: 'Magic and gloss', The List, 13 –27 May, p.72
Mahoney, Elisabeth: 'Good enough to eat', Scotland on Sunday, 23 May, p.9
MacMillan, Duncan: 'Let it pour', The Scotsman, 2 June, p.19
Mahoney, Elisabeth: 'Ian Davenport', Art Monthly, June, p.38
Januszczak, Waldemar: 'Picture this', The Sunday Times, 23 May
Brown, Helen: 'Ideas in the abstract', The Courier, 4 June
Holthof, Marc: 'Kunst in Knokke', Knack Magazine, Knokke, 4–11 September. p.16
Lambrecht, Luk: 'Kunst in Knokke', De Morgen, September
Watkins, Jonathan (intro.): Ian Davenport Paintings (catalogue), Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Examining Pictures: exhibiting paintings (catalogue), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and the touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Robertson, Bryan (intro.): A Line in Painting - Part One - British Art (catalogue), Gallery Fine, London
Cork, Richard (intro.): John Moores 21: exhibition of contemporary painting (catalogue), Walker Art Center, Liverpool
Stallabrass, Julian: High Art Lite. British art in the 1990s, Verso, London, New York

2000 Ellis, Samantha: 'Ian's an arc angel', Evening Standard, 26 January, p.55
Jones, Jonathan: 'Ian Davenport', The Guardian Guide, 27 January, p.19
Glover, Izi: 'Ian Davenport', Time Out Magazine, 9–16 February
Buck, Louisa: 'Our choices of London contemporary galleries', The Art Newspaper, February, no.100, p.66
Shone, Richard: 'Davenport, Maloney, 'Psycho'', The Burlington Magazine, April, p.248
Feaver, William: 'Ian Davenport: Waddington Galleries', ARTnews, May, p.238
Sandbye, Meite: 'Fascination Af Farver', Weekendavisen, 1 July
'Artistic Genre Bending Near Nyhavn', The Copenhagen Post, The Week (supplement), 7–13 July
Hornung, Peter M.: 'Mellen renhed og intethed', Lordag, 8 July
Jorgensen, Tom: 'Intere Nyt Under Solen', Ekstra Bladet, 10 July
Brown, Neal: 'Doorways to Heaven', Art Review, November, pp.50–51
Clark, Robert: 'Ian Davenport', The Guardian Guide, 11 November
Clark, Robert: 'Ian Davenport: Tate Liverpool', The Guardian (reviews), 16 November
Bracewell, Michael: 'I am very good at pouring paint', Independent on Sunday, 10 December
Holman, Martin: 'The results always surprise me: Ian Davenport's paintings', London Magazine, Vol. 40, nos. 9 & 10, December–January 2001, pp.63–69
Bracewell, Michael (essay): Ian Davenport: Large Scale Paintings (catalogue), Waddington Galleries, London
Bogh, Mikkel (essay): Fact & Value (catalogue), Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Denmark

2001 Darwent, Charles: '2001 Jerwood Painting Prize', Metro, 4 May
Collings, Matthew: 'Many Marvels', Modern Painters, May, pp.72-75
Boston, Virginia: 'Paints & Brushes First', Artists & Illustrators, July, p.62
Cameron, Neil: 'The art award which fails to convince', The Scotsman, 10 July, p.12
Lynton, Norbert (essay): Jerwood Painting Prize 2001, Jerwood Gallery, London
Collings, Matthew (essay): British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
Herbert, Martin (essay): Complementary Studies: Recent Abstract Painting (catalogue), Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston

2002 Ryan, David (intro.) and Andrew Wilson (essay): Talking Painting. Dialogues with 12 Contemporary Abstract Painters, Routledge, London and New York, pp.23-42
Schwabsky, Barry (intro.): Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press, London and New York
Peintures – contrainte ou recette (catalogue), L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Rennes
Livingstone, Marco (essay): Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002 (catalogue), Jerwood Space, London
Abstraction (catalogue), Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2003 Cumming, Laura: 'British bullseye', The Observer Review, 2 March
'Exhibition of the week: Days Like These', The Week, 8 March
Hirst, Christopher: 'The Weasel', The Independent, 15 March
Denny, Ned: 'Variety show', new statesman, 17 March
Morton, Tom: 'Days Like These', Tate, March/April, pp.74-77
'Days Like These: Contemporary British Art 2003', Londinium, March/April
Herbert, Martin: 'Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art 2003', Art Monthly, no.265, April, pp.22-23
Patrick, Keith: 'Tate Triennal: Days Like These', Contemporary, issue 50, pp.80-81
Exodus review, Pluk, June, p18
Clark, Robert: 'Exodus', The Guide, 21 June, p.34
Exodus review, Contemporary, issue 53/54, July/August, p.32
Burnett, Craig: 'Previews, Austen in the Desert', Modern Painters, Summer, p127
Darwent, Charles: 'It's not as easy as it looks', Independent on Sunday, 6 July, p.10
MacFarlane, Robert: 'Peaks of Faith', Times Literary Supplement, 7 July
Healy, Jim: 'Mirror opposites', What's on in London, 9 July, p.23
Searle, Adrian: 'Lost in space', The Guardian, 15 July, pp.12-13
Kent, Sarah: 'Ian Davenport', Time Out, 16 July, p.55
Mead, Andrew: 'Double vision', The Architect's Journal, 17 July, p.51
Hubbard, Sue: 'The sands of time', The Independent Review, 22 July, pp.14-15
Pitman, Joanna: 'Bible Lessons', The Times, 22 July, T2, p.19
Lack, Jessica: 'Promised land', RA Magazine, Summer, p.26
'Lines of Influence', RA Magazine, Summer, p.21
Campbell, Jane: '50 best tips for investing in art', The Independent, 25 October, pp.4-11
Jeffrey, Moira: 'Painter is really pouring it on', The Herald, 21 November
Mullins, Charlotte 'From Bee Gees to Brushstrokes', The Financial Times, November 18
Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art 2003 (catalogue), Tate Publishing, London
Batchelor, David (conversation with Ian Davenport), Ian Davenport: New Paintings (catalogue), Waddington Galleries, London
Downey, Anthony (essay): Exodus: between promise and fulfilment (catalogue), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Ian Davenport (catalogue), Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2004 Tan, Eugene, Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting (catalogue), Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
Grimley, Terry 'Get in line to view new art', The Birmingham Post, 19 April
Other Times: Contemporary British Art (catalogue), City Gallery, Prague (in association with the British Council)
Tan, Sharlene, 'When he pours he paints', Streats, 9 June, p. 28
Watkins, Jonathan and Tony Godfrey: Ian Davenport (catalogue), Ikon Gallery, Brimingham
'Ian Davenport, Ikon Gallery', Art Forum, September, p. 113
Prichard, Caroline: 'Ian pours a lot into art', Coventry Evening Telegraph, 17 September, p. 67
Brooks, Justine: 'Neon drippings of artistic talent', Metro, 21 September, p. 18
Grimley, Terry: 'A splash of colour', The Birmingham Post, 22 September, p. 12
'Ian Davenport', The Guardian, 25 September, p. 36
'Goldsmith College Artist Exhibits At Birmingham Gallery', What's On, October, p. 43
Chapman, Peter: 'Ian Davenport', The Independent, 2 October, p. 15
'Davenport', Concept for Living, November, pp. 29-29
'Ian Davenport', Concept for Living, November, issue 72

2005 Muller, Robert-Jan: 'Ian Davenport: Orkestreren', Kunstbeeld, 04, pp. 14-17
Delaney, Barry (editor): A Celebration of 20 Years of The Groucho Club, The Groucho Club, London


2006 'Art installation to brighten Southwark Street railway bridge', londonse1 community website, 12th January
'Artnotes: Pouring', Art Monthly, March, pp. 17-18
Arendt, Paul: 'Brainwaves: Syringe Art', G2, The Guardian, 2nd March
Sardo, Delfim (editor): Pintura Redux Desenvolvimentos na Última Década, Colecção de Arte Contemporãnea Público Serralves, Portugal
Southwark Council and Land Securities commission Ian Davenport's 'Poured Lines: Southwark Street', Land Securities and Southwark Council, London
Davies, Serena: 'Dance to the music of lines', The Telegraph, 'Arts', 19th August, p.6
'In the lines of Duty', FT Magazine, 26th August, pp.34-37
Mullins, Charlotte: 'Earning his stripes: artist with tunnel vision', The Times The Knowledge, 26th August, pp.34-35
McCann, Paul: 'Strip club', Wallpaper, September, pp.122-123
Limited edition magazine cover, Wallpaper, September
Ian Davenport Ovals Arches Lines (catalogue), Alan Cristea Gallery, London
BBC London Ten O'Clock News, 5th September
Teodorczuk, Tom: 'Double yellow lines (and blue, red, pink...)', Evening Standard, 5th September, p.3
Teodorczuk, Tom: 'Tate lines up Bankside Mural', Evening Standard, 6th September
Monochromed (exhibition catalogue), The Fine Art Society, London
Wilding, Alison (ed.) and Tom Phillips: Royal Academy Illustrated 2006, Royal Academy of Arts, London


2007 Friedman, Thomas L.: 'The Power of Green', The New York Times Magazine, 15th April, p. 40-51, 61 & 71

2007-2008 Luke, Ben: 'In the Studio: Ian Davenport Thinking Big', Art World, December/January, pp.136-141
Herbert, Martin: Between the Lines (catalogue), Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea

2008 Sumpter, Helen: 'In the studio: Ian Davenport', Timeout, 13-19 February, p.64
Godfrey, Tony: Ian Davenport (catalogue), Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea

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