Making a Mark: Ian Davenport

This episode of Making a Mark explores works on paper by Ian Davenport (b.1966), one of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists whose practice delves into the realms of colour, process and materiality.

We meet Davenport, well known for his abstract paintings, in his studio in South London to find out more about what inspires him, from art history to contemporary music, and how he creates his works on paper and prints, some measuring over three metres in length and made up of as many as forty different colours.

Discover Davenport’s artistic evolution as one of the generation of Young British Artists, whose work is now collected worldwide. Set to a soundtrack featuring the artist’s drumming, we also hear from curator and writer Jonathan Watkins who staged Davenport’s first institutional show in the UK in 2004. Gallery co-director David Cleaton-Roberts, who has worked with Davenport for over twenty years, describes the complex printing techniques the artist employs to create mesmerising colour arrangements.

Presented by writer and critic, Charlotte Mullins.

“There is a sheer visual pleasure in the encounter with Ian’s work.”

- Jonathan Watkins

“Ian looks at colour in a very intuitive way, a different way to other people. He understands colour and understands what colour does.”

- David Cleaton-Roberts

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Image: Ian Davenport in his studio. Photo: Sue Arrowsmith.