ALAN DAVIE

In the more than 60 year long career of Alan Davie, there has never been a clear distinction for him between drawing, painting and printmaking. They are all done in an intuitive, improvised manner. His hands are working on their own and Davie watches what happens.

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www.alandavieprints.com Born in Grangemouth, Scotland, 1920 Lives and works in Hertfordshire and Cornwall, England
2004	Jingling Space Tate St Ives
2003	How Heavy is Black?, Broadbent, London
2003	Retrospective – Jingling Space, Tate St Ives
2003	Recent Paintings amd Goucahes, Gimpel Fils, London; James Hyman Fine Art, London
2002	Broadbent at The Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland Visiting Professor, University of Brighton School of Art
2001	Screen Prints, Broadbent, London Retrospective: Cobra Museum, Holland
2000	Retrospective: Scottish National Museum of Modern Art
1997	Drawings retrospective: University of Brighton; Scottish National Museum of Modern Art
1992-1995	British Council touring exhibition: South America and Australia
1993	Retrospective: Barbican Gallery, London
1992	Retrospective: Me’Lellan Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1991	Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art
1979	Visit to Australia and Bali
1977	Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London
1972	Awarded C.B.E. (Commander of the British Empire)
1971-1979	Concerts and recordings of Spontaneous Music
1963-1970	Experiments in lithography
1962	One man show: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam One man show: Bienal Di Sao Paulo, Brazil Prize for Best Painter
1960-1980	Gliding: 2000 hours soaring in England, Switzerland, USA
1959	Teaching: Central School of Arts and Crafts, London
1958	Retrospective: Wakefield City Art Gallery Retrospective: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1956	First American show, New York. Subsequently shown frequently throughout USA
1950	First one man show at Gimpel Fils Gallery, London. Subsequently every two years to date
1949	Making Jewellery and Silverware Jazz musician birth of daughter Jane
1948-1949	Travelled in Europe
1948	Exhibitions in Florence, Venice. Paintings bought by Peggy Guggenheim
1946-1947	Jazz musician, married Janet (Billi) Gaul
1941-1946	War service, Royal Artillery
1937	Edinburgh College of Art
1920	Born Grangemouth, Scotland

Selected Solo Shows
2008	Alan Davie: Shaman’s Enigma, Gimpel Fils, London & James Hyman, London Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin Galerie Gimpel & Muller, Paris
2007	Alan Davie: Paintings 1955-1967, Thomas Dane, London
2006	Alan Davie: Paintings and Drawings 1948-2004, 108 Fine Art, Harrogate
2005	Alan Davie: Paintings from the Fifties and Sixties, Gimpel Fils, London Alan Davie: A Game of Poetry, Galleria Morone, Milan
2004	Alan Davie: The Alchemical Journey, ACA Galleries, New York Alan Davie, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Alan Davie, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
2003-04	Alan Davie: Retrospective, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
2003	Alan Davie: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, Gimpel Fils, London, & James Hyman, London Alan Davie in conjunction with Total Music Meeting, Free Music Production, Alan Davie and Tony Oxley jazz event, Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin
2002	Alan Davie Small Paintings 1949-2000, Howard Gardens Gallery, University of Wale Institute Alan Davie: Magical Symbolism, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
2001	Alan Davie: Small Paintings 1949-2000, Touring: Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, MAC Birmingham, Gimpel Fils, London Alan Davie: “Il risveglio della conoscenza intuitiva”, Galleria Morone, Milan
2000	Bologna Art Fair, Gimpel Fils Alan Davie: Small Paintings 1949-2000, University of Brighton Gallery Alan Davie, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1999	Alan Davie: New Work, Gimpel Fils Alan Davie: Works of the Nineties, UH Galleries, University of Hertfordshire

News feed

News : BBC ‘Your Paintings’
Alan Davie : Cosmic Signals Number 1
Alan Davie : Magic Picture
Exhibition : How Heavy is Black?
Exhibition : Sam Francis and Contemporaries
Exhibition : Group Print Show
Alan Davie : Sonik Sin