Ian Davenport

Carling Dalenson has the pleasure to announce British artist Ian Davenport’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.

Opening on May 8, 2025, in Stockholm, ”Reflections & Variations” includes 11 unique works.

Driven by an enduring fascination with the materiality of paint, Ian Davenport has for over 30 years, made paintings using his signature technique, meticulously pouring thin acrylic lines down on aluminium and other smooth surfaces in varied angles - ultimately having the colors pool and swerve at the bottom.

Davenport’s control is evident in the carefully composed series of colors that populate his paintings, which are experiments in color relationships guided by his intuition and mastery of the subject.

Born 1966 in Sidcup, England, Ian Davenport studied at Goldsmiths College of Art in London. He graduated in 1988, and that same year he featured in “Freeze”, the seminal exhibition curated by fellow classmate Damien Hirst - the first gathering of the loose group that would become known as the Young British Artists (YBA).

Davenport became a key figure in the YBA scene in London in the late eighties, and the youngest artist to be nominated for the Turner Prize in 1991.

Davenports work is included in many public collections such as the British Council Collection, London; Tate, London; The British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museu Berardo, Portugal; Museum Voorlinden, The Netherlands; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas.

His monumental painting Giardini Colourfall, a single painting spanning 45 feet, was featured within the Giardini of the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017.

He currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom