Born in Australia 1957
Lives and works in Albury, NSW, Australia
EDUCATION
2011 Master of Fine Art (Visual Arts), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2010 Postgraduate Diploma of Visual Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
2007 Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts, Riverina Institute of TAFE
2002 Certificate Fine Arts, Riverina Institute of TAFE
2004 Intensive Colour Theory, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1998 Fabric Printing I and II, Riverina Institute of TAFE
1986 Bachelor Fine Arts, Charles Sturt University, Albury
1979 Visual Arts (Painting), Albury Technical College
EXHIBITIONS SOLO
2023 Stolen Flowers, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2022 Echo of Landscape, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Tread Gently, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2020 Revival, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Mundarlo, Earth Canvas, Mundarlo. NSW
2019 Red Sky in the Morning, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2018 The Nature of Landscape, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Beyond Landscape, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2017 Mapping Hill End, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2016 Surrounded by Sky, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Here & Now, MAMA Murray Art Museum Albury
2016 Mapping Hill End, Works on Paper, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2015 Surface Tension, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2015 A Natural Response, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2014 An Intimate Landscape, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2014 Time Recalled, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2013 REMEMBERED, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2012 Marking Time, Arts Space, Wodonga
2012 Remembered Landscape, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2006 View, Wilson Street Gallery, Albury
EXHIBITIONS GROUP
2022 Earth Canvas, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2022 Earth Canvas, Griffith Regional Art Gallery
2022 Earth Canvas, Tamworth Regional Gallery
2022 Summer, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney Group Show
2022 Earth Canvas, Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga
2021 Earth Canvas, Mildura Arts Centre
2021 Earth Canvas, Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre Gallery. Mt. Gambier
2021 Earth Canvas, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Travelling Exhibition
2020 Earth Canvas, Albury Library Museum, Travelling Exhibition
2020 Renewal, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2020 Summer, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2019 On the Fringe, Flinders Lane Gallery
2019 Reflections of Fading Sky, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2019 Selected Works, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2018 Summer Salon 2018, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2018 The Way You Came, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2018 Under the Sun, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2018 Landscape Show 2018, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2018 Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat
2017 Sydney Contemporary, Arthouse Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
2017 Thirty by Thirty, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
2017 DENFAIR, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2017 On Paper, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney,
2016 Under the Sun 16, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2016 FUSE, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Unfolding Splendour, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2014 Under the Sun 14, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2014 Loaded Brush, The Art Cabriolet Annual Art Show, Melbourne
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2014 PRIME 14, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2014 Highlights from Studio II, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2013 In the Scheme of Things, Landscape Show, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2013 Action/Abstraction, Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery, Wangaratta
2012 The Studio Show II, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Space, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2011 VCA Masters Graduate Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Alliance Française Award Exhibition, Melbourne
2011 Loosing & Finding, Arts Space, Wodonga
2011 Exploration 11, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Paint 6, Pigment Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Hume Building Society Acquisitive Art Award, Arts Space, Wodonga
2010 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2010 The Art of Love & Desire, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Proud, Margaret Lawrence Gallery Melbourne
2010 Off the Page, Adamshurst, Albury
2010 Art@St Mathews exhibition, Albury
2009 NSW Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape, Traveling Exhibition
2009 Hume Building Society Acquisitive Art Award, Arts Space, Wodonga
2008 Art@St Mathews Exhibition, Albury
2008 A Sense of Place, Adamshurst, Albury
AWARDS, RESEARCH AND TRAVEL
2023 Finalist Paddington Art Prize, Sydney
2022 Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station, NSW
2019 Finalist King’s School Art Prize, Sydney
2017 Finalist Paddington Art Prize, Sydney
2017 Finalist Chippendale World Art Residency
2015 Artist in Residence, The Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Hill End
2014 Study tour, New York
2013 Study tour, China
2013 Trinity Art Prize featured Artist, Wodonga
2013 Finalist Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2013 Painting research and development trip, Morocco
2012 Finalist R & M McGivern Award, Maroondah
2011 Awarded Langridge Painting Prize, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2011 Study tour, Hong Kong
2010 Awarded Shelmerdine Acquisitive Art Award, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2010 Awarded Alliance Francoise Award, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2010 Awarded Pigment Gallery Award, Victorian College of the Arts
2010 Awarded People’s Choice Award - Hume Building Society, Albury Wodonga
2010 Finalist Hume Building Society Acquisitive Art Award
2010 Study tour, Japan
2009 Finalist - NSW Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Award,
Lismore Regional Gallery, Travelled Regional NSW
2009 Finalist Hume Building Society Acquisitive Art Award, Albury Wodonga
2009 Study tour, Central Australia painting retreat
2008 Finalist – JazzART Award, Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery
2007 Study tour, Europe
CATALOGUES, REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
2023 Australian Abstraction, Contemporary Abstract Painting, by Amber Creswell Bell
Thames & Hudson
2022 Earth Canvas, Linking Artists with Regenerative Farmers
2022 Echo of Landscape, reviewed by Tony Mangnussan
2020 REVIVAL 2020, review by Phe Luxford
2020 Wandering Through the Landscape, Artist Profile Magazine, Issue 51
2019 Red Sky at Night, essay by Elli Walsh
2019 The Light Beneath the Layers, Jo Davenport’s Abstract Art, North East Living Magazine, 2019
2019 Art Imitates Love of Land, Cover Story, The Border Mail Weekender 17 August, 2019
2018 Jo Davenport Monograph 2011-2018
2018 The Nature of Landscape review by Marguerite Brown
2017 Home Design Magazine, Artist Feature ‘Artscape’ Vol 20 No. 5 p.145
2016 Art Guide Magazine, To the River, Tracey Clement, Sep/Oct 2016
2015 Belle Australia, October 2015, p. 146
Australian Residential Architecture and Design House, Issue 102
Look, Art Gallery Society of NSW, September, 2015
Art Almanac Australia, September, 2015
Surface Tension, Arthouse Gallery Catalogue Essay, 7 Sept - 3 Oct, 2015
Art Collector, Issue 73, July - September, 2015
A Natural Response, Flinders Lane Gallery Catalogue Essay, 2015
2014 The Tailored Interior, Natale, Greg, Hardie Grant Books, P. 37, 119, 203
The Art Cabriolet Loaded Brush, Catalogue, 20 Nov 2014
Look Magazine, Art Gallery Society of NSW, September, 2014 p. 3
Artist Jo Davenport, DAILYIMPRINT, Natalie Walton, 19th September
www.dailyimprint.net/2014/09/artist-jo-davenport.htm
An Intimate Landscape, Catalogue Essay, Gibson, Prue, 10 September, 2014
Transient Marks.Jo Davenport, The Artsy Forager, Frenz, Lesley, 10 Sep.
artsyforager.com/2014/09/10/jo-davenport/
Country Masterpiece, Country Home Ideas Magazine, Scott, Kate,Vol.14 No.4 Aug
Art Collector Magazine on line, 4 April 2014
The Big Picture, Country Style Magazine, Immoff, Virginia, March
Painting Song of Joy, The Boarder Mail, 26 March, 2014
Time Recalled, Catalogue essay, Luxford, Phe, 18 Feb-8March 2014
Jo Davenport:Time Recalled, The Melbourne Review, Luxford, Phe, February 2014
http://www.melbournereview.com.au/arts/article/jo-davenport-time-recalled
Now Showing: Time Recalled Jo Davenport, Indie Art & Design, Price, Carolyn, 20 Feb,
Art Collector Magazine, Jan-Mar 2014 Issue 67
2013 Artist puts School in the Picture, The Border Mail, Thomas, Di, 24 August
Sculpture and the Enemies, Issue 2, Harrington, Katherine
Remembered, Arthouse Gallery Catalogue Essay, 8-25 Aug 2013
arthousegallery.file.wordpress.com/2013/07/jd13_catalogue.pdf
Landscape Great Inspiration, The Border Mail Pulse Magazine, 3 August 2013
A Kaleidoscope of Colour, The Border Mail Pulse Magazine, Wallace, Sue 16 Feb 2013
Australian Residential Architecture and Design House, Issue 90, 2013
Auction Abstraction, Mangan, Di, 9 Feb-24 March, 2013
2012 The Emphemera of a Remembered Landscape, Catologue Essay, Skerlj, Laura
Why Nature is my Muse, Border Mail Pulse Magazine, Wallace, Sue, 22 Aug
The Best of Art, The Age, 28 Aug. 2012
Remembered Landscape, Art Collector Australia, Issue 62, 2012
Space, The Melbourne Review, Luxford, Phe, Aug, 2012
2011 VCA Master of Visual Arts Seminar Program 2011
http://www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/mva/seminarprogram
Ad Infinitum: again and Again, in the Same Way; forever, Skerlj, Laura
http://lauraskerlj.com/uploads/documents/Laura_Skerlj_DAVENPORT_WRITING.pdf
COLLECTIONS
Artbank Australia
University of Melbourne
Star Casino Sydney
Leeuwin Estate Art Collection
Lois Going Collection New Zealand
Norman Foster Club House Tai Po, Hong Kong
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Permanent Collection
Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Mercy Hospital Albury
Hill Top, Albury Wodonga Hospital
ArtStream Investment Group
Private collections in Australia, UK, Canada, Japan, New York
REPRESENTED BY
Arthouse Gallery, 66 McLachlan Ave, Rushcutters Bay 2011
+61 2 9332 1019
contact@arthousegallery.com.au
Flinders Lane Gallery, 137 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
+61 3 9654 3332
STUDIO
Jo Davenport