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About Penelope DavisPenelope Davis employs a photogram technique on color paper to visualize the complex procedure with which she transforms her source material, “book.” The artist states: “The final images are not simply photographs but rather the…BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Penelope Davis employs a photogram technique on color paper to visualize the complex procedure with which she transforms her source material, “book.” The artist states: “The final images are not simply photographs but rather the visible result of a process – a chain of transformations and inversions – whose completion represents an object far removed from its origin.”
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TRANSFORMATIONS
In the beginning was the book...Penelope Davis (*1963) collects old volumes and “pours” them in silicon molds, filling these with a type of resin so that after the resin hardens the recreated books appear like glass objects. Davis subsequently treats each “glass book” with colored gels and adds additional color filters in the darkroom. Then Davis exposes the books with a photogram technique on color paper. Her densely atmospheric, mysterious images are thus created completely without the use of a camera. The artist says about her work: “The final images are not simple photographs but record a process – a chain of transformations and inversions – that creates the trace of an object many steps removed from its origin.”VITA
1963 born in Melbourne, Australia 1985 Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne 1989 Certificate of Illustrative Photography, Photography Studies College, Melbourne 1997 Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne 2007 Master of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Exhibitions
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2007 Index, Postgraduate Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia 2005 Tissue Issue. Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2003 Heavy Light, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2000 Penumbra, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Proof, Talk Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1996 Photoelastic, Temple Studios, Melbourne, Australia 1995 Penelope Davis, FAAS, Melbourne, Australia Group Exhibitions
2007 Josephine Ulrich and Wynn Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, Australia ANZ Visual Arts Award, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia Penelope Davis, Stephen Haley, Joyce Kohl, La Artcore, Los Angeles, USA 2006 Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgan Fund, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Melbourne 20/20, 18th Street Centre for the Arts, Los Angeles, California, USA 2005 Julie Millowick Photography Award, Castlemaine, Australia Paper Chase, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne Recent Acquisitions City of Port Phillip, Linden Gallery, Melbourne A4 Art, Westspace, Melbourne Fundraiser, Ocular Lab, Melbourne 2004 Floranova, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia Selected works, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne 2003 First Impressions, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2nd Sight, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Boogy, Jive and Bop, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia 2002 White and Black Photography, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne 2001 31st Alice Art Prize, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, Australia City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia Salon Exhibition, Penthouse and Pavement, Melbourne 2000 The Hutchins Art Prize, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart, Australia ‘F’: Divergent Abstraction and the Photographic Project, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, Australia 1999 Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; RMIT Gallery Storey Hall, Melbourne ‘F’: Divergent Abstraction and the Photographic Project, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne BAab/ talk exchange, Hanover Gallery, Liverpool, Britain 1998 Focus #4: Click, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne Deacons Graham and James/ Arts 21 Award and Exhibition, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne Post-Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne Anniversary, Talk Gallery, Melbourne taken, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne F’: Divergent Abstraction and the Photographic Project, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart 1997 “Disclosure”: new photo artists ‘97, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia Introduction, Aalk Artist’s Initiative Gallery, Melbourne ANZ Fellowship Exhibition, ANZ Bank, Melbourne Work, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne Victorian Campus Art Prize and Exhibition, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne Proud, VCA Student Union Exhibition and Award, VCA Gallery, Melbourne A4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne VCA Graduate Show, VCA Gallery, Melbourne Ashton, Raggert, McDougal Exhibition, Ashton, Raggert, McDougal Studios, Melbourne 1996 times five, First Site, Storey Hall, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Some Slips Don’t Show, VCA Gallery, Melbourne A4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne Agfa Summer Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 1994 Four Photographers, Linden Gallery, St.Kilda, Melbourne A4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne 1993 Graduate Show, Photography Studies College, Melbourne