PAUL DAVIES BLOW-UP
PAUL DAVIES BLOW-UP
CONTENTS
6 Director’s Foreword
22 House Stencil
8 Empty Pool Interior
23 City Palms
10 Empty Pool Interior II
24 Abandoned Roadside
12 Home in Palms
25 Abandoned Roadside II
13 Home in Trees
26 House and Palms
14 House & Pool Stencil
27 Log House and Pool
16 Jervis Dune Trees, Red
28 Pentimento (mum’s house & pool)
18 Digging
30 Bridges
20 Disused Stencil (mum’s house)
36 Price List
21 Disused Palms Stencil
DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD
The Cat Street Gallery is delighted to welcome back Australian painter Paul Davies for his third solo show at the gallery. Blow-Up, referencing the 1966 film of the same name, is the latest series of works from Davies, based on photographs, memory and his signature abandoned architecture. As always, Davies’ works are devoid of human form, yet retain something of a voyeuristic nature, creating tension between the subject and its audience. Featuring brand new sculptural works made from bronze, as well as an entirely new motif of interiors, the artist creates celebratory images - deftly colored and painted using delicate hand-cut paper stencils - of abstract environments. The paintings juxtapose the frozen ideals of domestic architecture with the universal natural environment, and investigate these sites as portraits of space. The works take inspiration from painterly, photographic and sculptural practices by artists such as: David Hockney, Jeffrey Smart, Peter Doig, Jon Cattapan and Rachel Whiteread. Davies graduated from the College of Fine Arts UNSW, with a Major in Sculpture. Shortly after graduating from COFA in 2000 he discovered the graffiti and street art practices of Sydney based artists and began employing these techniques to the sculpture he had studied. Davies is currently studying a Masters by research at the College of Fine Arts, which investigates the relationship between the built and natural environment in his work.
Mandy d’Abo Founder and Director The Cat Street Gallery
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Plate 1: Empty Pool Interior Acrylic on linen 122 x 91 cm 2012
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SOLD Plate 2: Empty Pool Interior II Acrylic on linen 122 x 91 cm 2012
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Plate 3: Home in Palms Acrylic on linen 122 x 91 cm 2012
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Plate 4: Home in Trees Acrylic on linen 122 x 91 cm 2012
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SOLD Plate 5: House & Pool Stencil Acrylic on linen 122 x 91 cm 2012
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Plate 6: Jervis Dune Trees, Red Acrylic on linen 91 x 122 cm 2012
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Plate 7: Digging Acrylic on linen 91 x 122 cm 2012
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Plate 8: Disused Stencil (mum’s house) Acrylic on paper 75 x 119 cm 2011 - 2012
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Plate 9: Disused Palms Stencil Acrylic on paper 101 x 74.5 cm 2012
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SOLD Plate 10: House Stencil Acrylic on paper 98 x 65 cm 2012
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Plate 11: City Palms Acrylic on paper 98 x 65 cm 2012
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Plate 12: Abandoned Roadside Acrylic on linen 122 x 153 cm 2012
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Plate 13: Abandoned Roadside II Acrylic on linen 122 x 153 cm 2012
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Plate 14: House and Palms Acrylic on linen 153 x 122 cm 2012
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Plate 15: Log House and Pool Acrylic on linen 153 x 122 cm 2012
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SOLD Plate 16: Pentimento (mum’s home & pool) Acrylic on linen 153 x 122 cm 2012
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Plate 17: Bridges Bronze 42 x 21 x 4 cm 2012
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BIOGRAPHY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Pentimento, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney 2011 Void, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong Portraits, Tim Olsen Gallery at Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Portraits, Gold Coast City Regional Art Gallery 2010 Hanmer, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney Modern Home, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London 2009 New Paintings, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney Re-Constructions, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong 2008 New Paintings, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney 2007 Recent Paintings, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney 2006 Recent Paintings, Tim Olsen Gallery Sydney 2005 Modern copy, blank_space Gallery, Sydney (December) Modern building copy, blank_space Gallery, Sydney (May) 2004 Re (Form), First Draft Gallery, Sydney 2 Step Gallery, Sydney 2003 Space3 Gallery, Sydney 2001 DK Restaurant, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013
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Signal 8: Salon Show, The Cat Street Gallery Pulse Art Fair Miami, Fine Art Society Contemporary Wild Australian, Yen Reis Gallery Singapore Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, finalist, Sydney Melbourne International Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery Hampton’s Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
2011
Pat Corrigan: Art Collector, Maitland Regional Art Gallery Signal 8: Salon Show, The Cat Street Gallery NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, finalist, Sydney Wattle, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong Heat, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney Self Portraits, China Heights Gallery, Sydney - curated by Paul Davies Hampton’s Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Art London, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Hong Kong International Art Fair, The Cat Street Gallery Toronto International Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
2010
Evocatecture, Heather James Fine Art Gallery A Summer Survey, Tim Olsen Gallery Hong Kong International Art Fair, The Cat Street Gallery Miscellanea, Tim Olsen Gallery Art Chicago, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Hampton’s Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Structural Through-Line (Coherence), Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles San Francisco Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery LA Art Show, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery London Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Melbourne international Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery Dragon Garden, The Cat Street Gallery The King’s School Art Prize finalist, Sydney
2009
Finalist - Royal Bank of Scotland Australian emerging Artist Award Hong Kong Art Fair, The Cat Street Gallery Affordable Art Fair Paris, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Hampton’s Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Toronto Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery London Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery No Comply, Red Bull Gallery, Sydney
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2008
Finalist - ABN-AMRO Emerging Artist Award Melbourne International Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery University of Sydney PALM Awards, Guest Judge 2 X 2, Tim Olsen Gallery
2007 100th Heights, China Heights, Sydney Across the Board, Cancer Council, Wallspace Gallery Solstice, Tim Olsen Gallery 2006 Melbourne International Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery Sydney Art Fair, Tim Olsen Gallery Postcards from Paddington, Sydney 2005 Sydney Art Fair, Soho Galleries, Sydney Group show, Touch Galleries, Sydney Department, blank_space, Sydney 2004 Vans off the wall, George Street, Sydney Eloquence (a group thing), blank_space, Sydney 2003 Graffiti and Stencils, Knot Gallery, Sydney 3D始s, Space3, Sydney Stencil exhibition, Surry Hills Labour Club, Sydney 2002 Appliance, UNSW Solar Research Centre, Sydney Group Show, PCL Gallery, Sydney 2001 Photography Prize winner TNT Magazine, London 2000
Seven Senses, Mercedes Fashion Week, Kudos Gallery, Sydney Walking the Streets, Sydney Dialogue, COFA Graduation show, Sydney Con/struct, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
1999 Yerg, UNSW College of Fine Arts, Sydney
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COLLECTIONS Artbank, Australia BYL Companies, USA Central Coast Grammar School, Australia Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia Historic Houses Trust, Australia Lexus, Australia Patrick Corrigan Collection, Australia Rothschild, USA Stockland, Australia Wilson & Hill Architects, New Zealand
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