Ideas
My work is all about objects and buildings and words.
I have long had a fascination with scratched, used, ordinary stuff marked by the traces of memory and experience.
I have long had a fascination with scratched, used, ordinary stuff marked by the traces of memory and experience.
Much of my work is concerned with exploring the dual meaning of “belongings” that is, not just material possessions, but how we are all attached to places and people, to the past, to our tribes and cultural traditions. Objects cement those attachments.
I draw fast. My images are often based on momentary glimpses of things in the background of TV news reports. I may draw objects that had a bit part in violent events, but I choose and combine them into paintings for aesthetic not shock effect. Sometimes my drawings make it into my paintings straight away, others sit quietly waiting in my sketchbooks for years.
I am not really interested in narrative, make up your own stories. I work with the edges, form and surfaces of everyday things.
Sarah Davenport
I am drawn to worn, scratched manmade objects - the things we choose, lose, inherit, pass on, treasure, discard, fail to notice.
As a child I was taken to a place in Africa where the oldest human remains and artefacts had been found. The idea of being outlived by objects really stayed with me.
As a child I was taken to a place in Africa where the oldest human remains and artefacts had been found. The idea of being outlived by objects really stayed with me.