PAUL DAVIES HOLLYWOOD STILLS
CONTENTS
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Director’s Foreword
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White Forest
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Forest Mirror Flip
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It’s a Flip
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Home Mirror Flip
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Home Pool
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Forest Invert Flip
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Palm Stencil
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Home Flip, Pool
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CV
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Mountain Flip Pool
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Sunset Flip
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Black Forest
3 50 Tung Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong / T + 852 2291 0006 / www.thecatstreetgallery.com
DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD The work of Australian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Paul Davies is driven by friction between opposing forces of built and natural environments, design and art, abstraction and figuration. These boundaries and relationships are illustrated through Davies’ process, which combines painting, stenciling, photography and sculpture.
In this era of surveillance Davies repeats and collages facades of modern architecture, the neutrality of which blurs what is revealed and concealed. Observing the manner in which information is often reiterated, Davies employs stencils, hand cut from the artists’ own digital photographs. These are employed in various mediums to render uncertain what is original and what is reproduction.
Hollywood Stills content derives from Davies’ archive of photographs that document quintessentially Southern Californian built and natural environments portrayed in popular culture. Central to Davie’s process is the use of hand-cut stencils, based in turn on the artist’s own digital photographs, to create a collage and repeat in various combinations using paint onto the canvas. This method on one hand looks at formal aspects of painting, while on the other observes the various potential readings of a seemingly single perspective.
Mandy d’Abo The Cat Street Gallery
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Forest Mirror Flip Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on canvas, 178 x 147 cm, 2015 HKD 135,000
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Home Mirror Flip Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on canvas, 147 x 179 cm, 2015 HKD 135,000
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Forest Invert Flip
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Resonance - Morning Bay
Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on canvas, 153 x 122 cm, 2015
Hand carved pigment print on cotton paper, 200 x 200 cm, Ed. of 9 (each uniquely carved), 2014/15
HKD 120,000
GBP 18,000
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Home Flip, Pool Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on canvas, 153 x 122 cm, 2015 HKD120,000
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Mountain Pool Flip Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on canvas, 153 x 122 cm, 2016 HKD120,000
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Sunset Flip
Black Forest
Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on canvas, 122 x 153 cm, 2016
Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on linen, 117 x 92 cm, 2015
HKD120,000
HKD95,000
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White Forest Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on canvas, 122 x 91 cm, 2015 HKD95,000
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It’s a Flip Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on canvas, 122 x 91 cm, 2016 HKD 95,000
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Home Pool Vinyl, acrylic, copolymer on canvas, 122 x 91 cm, 2015 HKD 95,000
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Palm Stencil Acrylic on paper, 125 x 94 cm, 2010 HKD 45,000
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CURRICULUM VITAE Education
2010
LA Art Show, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
London Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
Solo Exhibitions
Yering Station Art Prize Finalist, Australia Arnold Bloch Leibler Art Prize Finalist, Australia
2011-14
Masters by Research UNSW College of Art & Design
Melbourne international Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery
2014
Masters Graduation Exhibition UNSW College of Art & Design Sydney
2006
Painting Master Class, National Art School
Dragon Garden, The Cat Street Gallery
Other Desert Spaces The Standard, Hollywood
2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts, UNSW College of Fine Art
Built in Translation The Fine Art Society London
2009
Hong Kong Art Fair, The Cat Street Gallery
Built in Translation II Art District 13 Gallery, Delhi
Affordable Art Fair Paris, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
Switching Utopia Sophie Gannon Gallery Melbourne
2012 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize finalist, Australia
Hamptons Art Fair Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery 2011 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize finalist, Australia
Group Exhibitions
Albany Art Prize Finalist, Australia
2014
Summer exhibition Heather James Fine Art, Jackson Hole
Toronto Art Fair Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
2013
Flattening Sublime Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Winter exhibition Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert
London Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
Flattening Sublime Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
Melbourne Art Fair Sophie Gannon Gallery
No Comply Red Bull Gallery, Sydney
Art13 London Fine Art Society Contemporary
2012
Pentimento Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Signal 8: Salon Show The Cat Street Gallery
2008
Melbourne International Art Fair, represented by Tim Olsen Gallery
Summer group exhibition Sophie Gannon Gallery
University of Sydney PALM Awards, Guest Judge for Art Prize
2011
Void The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2 X 2, Tim Olsen Gallery
Portraits Tim Olsen Gallery at Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2013
Natural Selection The Fine Art Society Contemporary
Portraits Gold Coast City Regional Art Gallery
Reflections The M Collection Exhibition Dianne Tanzer Gallery
2007
100th Heights China Heights, Sydney
Signal 8: Salon Show The Cat Street Gallery
Across the Board Cancer Council, Wallspace Gallery
2010
Hanmer Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary Olsen Irwin Gallery
Solstice Tim Olsen Gallery
Modern Home Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London
Signal 8: Salon Show The Cat Street Gallery
Pulse Art Fair Miami Fine Art Society Contemporary
2006
Melbourne International Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery
2009
New Paintings Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Sydney Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery
Re-Constructions Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Lexus, Australia
2012
Wild Australian Yen Reis Gallery Singapore
Postcards from Paddington Sydney
Melbourne International Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery
2008
New Paintings Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Pat Corrigan Collection
Hampton’s Art Fair Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
2005
Sydney Art Fair, Soho Galleries, Sydney
Pat Corrigan: Art Collector Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Group show, Touch Galleries, Sydney
2007
Recent Paintings Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Kerry Stokes Collection
Signal 8: Salon Show, The Cat Street Gallery
Department blank_space, Sydney
Wattle Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2006
Recent Paintings Tim Olsen Gallery Sydney
Artbank, Australia
2004
Vans Off the Wall George Street, Sydney
Eloquence (a group thing) blank_space, Sydney
2005
Modern copy blank_space Gallery, Sydney (December)
BYL Companies, USA
Modern building copy blank_space Gallery, Sydney (May)
2010 The King’s School Art Prize finalist, Australia 2009 Finalist - Royal Bank of Scotland Australian emerging Artist Award 2008 Finalist - ABN-AMRO Emerging Artist Award
Collections McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Australia
2011
Evocatecture Heather James Fine Art Gallery
Heat Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Self Portraits China Heights Gallery, Sydney - curated by Paul Davies
2003
Graffiti and Stencils Knot Gallery, Sydney
Hampton’s Art Fair Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
3D’s Space3, Sydney
2004
Re (Form) First Draft Gallery, Sydney
Art London Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
Stencil exhibition Surry Hills Labour Club, Sydney
2 Step Gallery, Sydney
Historic Houses Trust, Australia
Hong Kong International Art Fair, The Cat Street Gallery
Toronto International Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
2002
Appliance UNSW Solar Research Centre, Sydney
2003
Space3 Gallery, Sydney
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
A Summer Survey Tim Olsen Gallery
Group Show, PCL Gallery, Sydney 2001
DK Restaurant, London
Rothschild, USA
2010
Miscellanea Tim Olsen Gallery
2001
Photography Prize winner TNT Magazine, London
Art Chicago Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
Hampton’s Art Fair Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
2000
Seven Senses Mercedes Fashion Week, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
Structural Through-Line (Coherence)Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles
Walking the Streets Sydney
San Francisco Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
Dialogue COFA Graduation show, Sydney
Con/struct College of Fine Arts, Sydney
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Central Coast Grammar School, Australia
Stockland, Australia
Residencies & Awards Wilson & Hill Architects New Zealand 2013 Cite des Arts Residency, Paris, Awarded by The Art Gallery of NSW Fleurieu Art Prize Finalist, Australia
1999 Yerg UNSW College of Fine Arts, Sydney
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The Cat Street Gallery 50 Tung Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong / T + 852 2291 0006 / www.thecatstreetgallery.com