PETER DAVERINGTON
Born Melbourne 1974
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION
2006 Master of Fine Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts
2004 Graduate Diploma in Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts
MUSIC EDUCATION
2002 Studied Ney Flute and Turkish Music Theory with Ney Master, Omer Erdogdular, Istanbul, Turkey.
2001 Studied Turkish Music Theory and Practice with Oud master, Munir Nurettin Beken, Washington State University, USA
1994-95 Studied Ney Flute and Classical Arabic Music Theory with Musician and Composer, Ali Ahmed Abu El Fadl, Cairo, Egypt.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Poiesis, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Holy Mountain, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2009 The Continuum, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Peter Daverington, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
Everness, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2007 The Dervish Series, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Reflections on Hyperspace, Until Never/City Lights, Melbourne
Modulations II, Style Crisis, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Modulations, Mars Gallery, Melbourne
2004 New Paintings, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Earth, Roar Studios, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 100 Little Deaths, Bravin Lee Programs, New York
Peekskill Project 5, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, NY
Currents-SantaFe Internation New Media Festival
Under The Influence, Kianga Ellis Projects, Brooklyn
2011 New Romantics, curated by Simon Gregg, Gippsland Art Gallery
KIAF11, Arc One Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art + Architecture II, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2010 John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Gallery
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
Australian Contemporary Drawing1, RMIT Gallery
2009 Turbulent Terrain, Latrobe Regional Gallery
Aurthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Gallery
Lang-scapes, Conical Inc
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA
Blake Prize (touring), Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
2008 Blake Prize, NAS Gallery, Sydney
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
MacarthurCook Award, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Arc One Gallery
Bal Tashchit- Thou Shalt Not Destroy, Jewish Museum Australia
2007 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
Australian Drawing Part 2, John Buckley Gallery
Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA
2006 Metro 5 Art Prize, Metro 5 Gallery
Abn Amro, Optus Tower, Melbourne
Nude, Mars Gallery
2005 Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Old Castlemaine Gaol
Graduates, Dickerson Gallery
2004 Graduate Exhibition, VCA Gallery
Special, Seventh Gallery
Athenaeum Award, Athenaeum Club, Melbourne
Umpa Art Prize, George Paton Gallery
ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship, ANZ Bank, Melbourne
National works on paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2003 Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Gallery, AGNSW
Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Banyule Works on Paper, Banyule City Council Gallery
MLC Acquisitive, MLC Melbourne
Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Castlemaine State Festival
2002 Architectural drawings, Sofa Gallery, Istanbul
1998 Tagged, Sects Gallery, Vancouver
1992 Off the Wall, National Gallery of Victoria
MURAL COMMISSIONS
2011 Hibernian House,Sydney, Australia
2010 Biosol, Ahrweiler, Germany
2007 Villa 21, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 Langham Hotel, Melbourne
Habiba Resort, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt
2003 MAB, Condor Building, Docklands, Melbourne
2001 Wish, Seattle, USA
1998 Sultanahmet, Istanbul Turkey
1997 Malostranska, Prague, Czech Republic
1996 Ahrweiler, Germany
1993 San Pedro, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
1991 Ministry of Transport Mural project, Collingwood
PERFORMANCES
2012 Turkish Music Concert, The Amati and Friends of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sufi Songs of Love, Dergah Al Farah, New York City
2011 Illuminations of the Heart, Melbourne Recital Centre
Biography of an Empire, Columbia University, New York City
2010 New Rome - The Ecstacy of Loss, Aya Irini Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Dualities Twilight Series, Elder Hall, Adelaide Arts Festival
2009 Ney recital, Yerebatan Sarnici (Basilica Cisterm), Istanbul, Turkey
From the Garden of Ecstasy, Sunday Live, ABC FM
Alchemy of Joy, 3MBS Radio: Live at the Convent
2008 Sufi-Jazz Fusion, with Kudsi Erguner Ensemble, BMW Edge, Melbourne International Arts Festival
Alchemy of Joy, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery
Mystical Journeys, Monash University
2006 Turkish Sufi Music ceremony, fortyfivedownstairs
2005 Turkish Sufi Music performances at; Parliament House Canberra; State Parliament House, Victoria
2001 STV, Turkish Television, live performance with Ertugrul Erkisi
Appeared with Spaceboat TV, Experimental Music Project, Seattle
1998-0 Principal Ney Flute with the Mevlevi of North America
DISCOGRAPHY
2009 The Continuum – 8 Tracks, self-published, 51:07
2006 The Dervish Series Soundscape (recorded in the Cheops pyramid, Giza, Egypt) – 2 Tracks, self-published, 20:11
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2011 The Rupert Bunny Fellowship
2010 Australia Council for the Arts, Skills and Development - Music
Basso Residency, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Point-B Worklodge Residency, New York City
2008 John Coburn Emerging Professional Artist Award
City of Melbourne, Arts Grant
2007 Artist in Residence, Australian Embassy, Buenos Aires
2006 KPMG Tutorship
2006 City of Melbourne, Arts Grant
2005 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work – Visual Art
2004 National Gallery Women’s Association Postgraduate Award
2003 Dominique Segan Drawing Prize
COLLECTIONS
Geelong Gallery
Gippsland Art Gallery
City of Port Phillip
Macquarie Bank
Artbank
KPMG
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ashley Crawford, The Party Before the Apocalypse, Art Wall, Issue 4, p.8-23 (illus), 2012
Kirsten Rann, Shapeshifter, Art Monthly, p.5-8,(illus) March 2012
Simon Gregg, New Romantics-Darkness and Light in Australian Art,
The Glacial, p. 97-106, (illus),2011
Micaela Boland, Fair Give locals a Brush with Korea, The Age, Sept, 2011
Dan Rule, Peter Daverington, Poiesis, The Age, 24 Sept, 2011
Gunter Schmitt, Eine Weinlandschaft entsteht, General Anzeiger, 14 Aug, 2010
Harbant Gill, Out Of This World, Herald Sun, 18 Jan, 2010
Penny Webb, Galleries-Peter Daverington, The Age, Melbourne Magazine, 11 Dec, 2009
Bryony Nainby, Beyond Imagination,- Into the Abyss, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Sept, 2009
Cabrilo, Harvey, Stamer, Kings Way-The beginnings of Australian Graffiti, p. 184,284, 2009
Yavuz Uluturk, Ney’in Pesinde bir Avustralyali, ZAMAN, p. 17, 27 July, 2009
Ashley Crawford, Sublime Aspirations, Australian Art Review, p.20-22, Vol 17, 2008
Robert Nelson, Air of trepidation in world of uncertainty, The Age, 27 Oct, 2008
Annemarie Kylie, Digital Life, Vogue Living, Oct-Dec, 2008
Ashley Crawford, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Oct, 2008
Harbant Gill, Such Lavish Sprays, Herald Sun, 9 June 2008
Virginia Fraser, Wading into Scripture:Bal Taschit, Melbourne, Art Monthly, June 2008
Tracey Clement, When Mars Met Venus, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April, 2008
Harbant Gill, Whirl of his own, Herald Sun, 9 May 2007
Andrew Stephens, Artist puts a fresh spin on Islam, The Age, 21 April 2007
Ali Alizadeh, The Poetics of Sufi Madness, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, 2007
Prue Miller, Making a Mark, Australian Art Review, p. 71, Vol 13, May-June, 2007
Jeannette Neumann, Inside Villa 21, Buenos Aires Herald, 4 March 2007
Harbant Gill, Colouring his world, Herald Sun, 12 February 2007
Lorena Oliva, Extranjeros que vienen para ayudar, una costumbre que se afirma, LA NACION, 20 January, 2007
Megan Backhouse, Awards round-up, The Age, 6 December 2006
Lachlan Macdowell, The Pleasure-Dome, Catalogue Essay, 2006
Knifey, When Worlds Collide, The Art of Peter Daverington, Brain Damage, #13, Polish Aerosol Culture Magazine, p. 86 – 88 , (illus), Nov 2005
Karen Burns, Modulations, Catalogue Essay, 2005
Harbant Gill, Writing on the Wall, Herald Sun, (illus), 13 March 2004
Tim Carlson, Renegade Painters Come Above Ground, The Georgia Straight, (illus),Vancouver, 18 June 1998
Peter Timms, Melbourne Scene, Art in Australia (illus), p.131,Vol 32, May 1991
