PETER DAVERINGTON

He studied Classical Arabic Music in Cairo for two years and Ottoman Art Music in Istanbul specialising on Ney flute with various masters of those traditions, whilst teaching himself Arabic calligraphy and language. He survived by painting murals and Turkish miniatures during those years, whilst making numerous drawings of ancient ruins and Islamic architecture.

Currently his paintings play with ideas of hyper-dimensionality, infinity and the landscape by using perspective and architecture as a conceptual trigger to enter the imagined architectonics of the painted surface. The landscape is often referenced as a site for containing the endless conflict of meaning and information within the cultural histories of religion, science and technology. Within this context the landscape is seen not only as a physical subject but a psychological one as well, a multi-layered collage of information which demonstrates the importance on making visible a system rather than simply creating a composition.