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Melbourne Design Week
23 May – 02 June 2024 23 May - 02 June 2024
Program
Exhibition Free Architecture
Image courtesy of Peter Davidson

Peter Davidson | Drawings

Presented by Daine Singer
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Dates

Thu 23 May 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 24 May 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 25 May 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Wed 29 May 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Thu 30 May 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 31 May 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 01 Jun 12:00pm - 4:00pm

Tickets

Free, No Booking Required

Venue

Daine Singer
83 Weston St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia

Access

All gender bathroom, Assistance animals welcome, Wheelchair accessible

Peter Davidson is a artist and architect based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga), best known for designing Melbourne’s Federation Square as founder and co-director of LAB architecture studio. The exhibition Drawings presents a new series of black and white drawings by Davidson. After suffering a major stroke in 2010, Davidson stopped practicing as an architect and devoted himself full-time to his artistic practice. Drawing has always been an integral part of Davidson’s life, and his drawings reflect a relentless desire to explore the line, both in architecture and then through abstraction. Meticulous and intricate, the drawings trace a multitude of patterns and forms through the strict constraint of black lines on paper.

Participants

Peter Davisdson
Davidson graduated in 1980 from the NSW Institute of Technology in Sydney (now UTS), after which he moved to London and ran his own practice while simultaneously teaching at various institutions. Davidson has taught and lectured extensively, including at the AA, London; Bartlett School of Architecture, London; as Adjunct Professor at UTS in Sydney; and as Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, New York and MIT, Boston. In 1994 Davidson co-founded LAB architecture studio and won the competition to design Federation Square in 1997, at which time he moved from London to Melbourne. Recent exhibitions of his work include No Vacancy Gallery (2022), Untitled, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre (2017); Peter Davidson, Daine Singer (2021, 2016, 2015 & 2013), A Fine Line, Daine Singer (2012) and Draw the Line, National Gallery of Victoria (2009).
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