ART WORLD
Thinking Big
When I meet Ian Davenport at his Peckham studio, the room is ablaze with colour. Several panels of his latest painting lean against the walls, seeming to buzz and pulse around us. On a rich red ground, Davenport has carefully poured just about every imaginable colour in inch-thick lines down the surface, and orchestrated them into an electric whole...
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TIMES ONLINE
Earning His Stripes
In an overcast summer day, the artist Ian Davenport stands under the western railway bridge on Southwark Street, South London, and contemplates the scale of his latest and most ambitious painting. At nearly 156ft (50m) long, it will be one of the largest public artworks in the country when it is unveiled on September 6...
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ROMEIKE
Strip Club
As part of Wallpaper's 10th-anniversary series, this month's limited-edition cover was created by abstract artist Ian Davenport using his trademark technique of paint filled syringes and gravity. We supplied graphic number 10 and he created a relief on a wooden base and added his 'chance paint incidents' of drips and unpredictable lines of colour...
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FT MAGAZINE
In the Lines of Duty
In September 2004 I was commissioned by Land Securities and Southwark Council to make a painting as part of a regeneration project in Bankside, London. They wanted to use a public artwork to help boost the pace of change in this area and improve one of the main routes into Bankside itself...
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TELEGRAPH
Dance to the Music of Lines
It may be a three-minute walk from Tate Modern, but a big grimy tunnel on Southwalk Street in London is hardly an obvious place for a piece of extraordinary modern art. Next month, however, it becomes the permanent home of Britain's largest ever outdoor painting. This is no common or garden mural: for one thing, it's vandal-proof. For another, it's exceptional for a fine artist to make an outdoor painting at all, let alone one on this scale...
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EVENING STANDARD
Double Yellow Lines (and blue, red, pink...)
London's most spectacular out-door public artwork was installed in Bankside today. Ian Davenport's massive mural, entitled Poured Lines, at nearly 50 metres long and three metres high, is longer than Michelangelo's painting for the Sistine Chapel...
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