Sarah Davenport
Sarah Davenport is fascinated by the potent afterlife of objects. She makes pictures of scratched, worn, ordinary stuff; marked by memory and hope.
Her art essentially explores the meaning of belongings; that is, not just our material possessions, but how objects can show that we are all attached to places and people, to memories, and to our cultural traditions.
For her show, "Belongings", Sarah has made an exquisite series of work featuring buildings, machines, furniture and domestic objects set on rich textile-patterned backgrounds.
Biography
1968 Born in England
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Belongings, Toni Heath Gallery, London
2001 Fit & Proper, London Stock Exchange
2000 As Seen On TV, bbb contemporary art
1998 Vocabulary, Oliver J. Benjamin
1995 Methodiz'd, Casson Gallery
1993 Chairs & Stripes, Newlyn Gallery
1992 County Seat, Lotherton Hall
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 The Makers, SoupProjects at 291 Gallery
2003 Pop Culture, Beatrice Royal Art Gallery
2002 Size Matters, Stephen Lacey Gallery
2001 Raw Canvas, London
1999 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society
1998 Larnaca Studios, Whitechapel Open
1995 South, Southampton City Art Gallery
1992/3 YASE, Maidstone & Folkestone Library Galleries
1992 Art For Sale, The Guardian
Projects
2004 Chair, matrix visual arts committee
2002/3 Assistant to Vicente Todoli, Tate Modern
2001 Organiser of Larnaca Works open
1999 Research and travel in India, Australia & USA
1998 Reclining Artist, photographic collaboration with G. Cargill
1997 Land, reproduced in Women Artists Diary 1998
1996 I See What You Mean, published as card
1992/4 Austin Wright catalogue raisonne, published Lund Humphries
1992 Invited Speaker, Association of Art Historians conference
1989/92 Voluntary curatorial work, Leeds City Galleries & Museums
Education
MA Sculpture Studies Distinction, University of Leeds
BA (Hons) Fine Art 1st Class, University of Leeds