Peter Daverington

There are not many Australian artists who can claim to be as dexterous as Peter Daverington. Daverington is a unique presence, mastering the painter’s palette and techniques, as well as being an accomplished Ney Flute player with acclaimed performances in the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Topkapi Palace (Istanbul) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). Influenced by his extensive travels through the Middle East, South America, Europe and the United States, his practice has steadily evolved over the last ten years to include an oeuvre of drawings, murals, sound installations, live recordings and more recently video.Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1974, Peter Daverington lives and works in Beacon, New York.

The Bowery 
Oil and acrylic on canvas
102 x 78 inches

“When you look at Daverington’s pictures they look so hyper real, so photographic, that they look almost digitally generated. But they are painted in the most traditional and pain­staking manner”, says Geoffrey Edwards, the ­director of Victoria’s Geelong Gallery.

Wall Street 
Oil and acrylic on canvas
78 x 60 inches

“By compressing a vast amount of imagery, styles and references, I am pursuing a kind of Maximalism that I feel is relevant to our time.”, - Peter Daverington

Date with De Chirico 
Oil on canvas
62 x 48 inches

A contemporary artist with a rare mastery of oil techniques, Peter Daverington’s practice centers on his unparalleled capacity to work across a wide range of pictorial languages and artistic styles. With a foundation in graffiti and street art, his oeuvre critically engages with legacies of Western art history from a contemporary context; seamlessly integrating a vast array of disparate images, styles and references in an aesthetic maximalism relevant to our time.