Paul Davies was recently interviewed on the blog Eating with Artists. Recently returned from Los Angeles, the artist shares his favourite LA cafes and restaurants.

Image: Paul Davies, Pink fade on modern home, 2020

Artist and Los Angeles Soho House member Paul Davies, whose mural overlooks the rooftop pool at Soho Warehouse, curated a playlist based on his recent paintings with Maroon 5’s Jesse Carmichael.

Listen to the friends discuss how the collaboration came about and the process of translating artworks into a soundscape.

Image: Paul Davies, Built facade in foliage, 2020

Space Displaced, Paul Davies's new body of work, is on display online. Central to each painting is modern architecture; its practical design values are disrupted by a sense of infinite possibilities, as one building is repeated and flipped atop a multitude of layered backgrounds.

In a profile on The Design Files, Davies explains, ‘I am interested in the way the post-impressionists depicted landscape by separating colour in block forms because it allows the viewer to project onto these spaces rather than give away too much information. Rather than depicting a landscape as it is, I am interested in how these methods can reveal different ways of looking.’

To join our waiting list for new works, please contact the gallery.⁠

Image: Paul Davies, Built facade in yellow, 2020⁠

Paul Davies's solo exhibition Space Displaced is on display until 31 October 2020. The exhibition was recently previewed in the Australian Financial Review, with Stephen Todd describing the 'uncanny architectural allure' of Davies's paintings.

To enquire, please contact the gallery.⁠

Image: Paul Davies, Built facade with chairs, 2020⁠

Paul Davies's photographic works, recently acquired by Geelong Gallery, are included in A Shining Light: Recent Acquisitions 2019–20. The exhibition is on display at Geelong Gallery until 21 February 2021. Davies produced the works during a residency awarded by the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Arizona.

In times of social, political and environmental crisis, and the anxiety and doubt that those times might bring, artists play an essential role in shining a light on the inner spaces of our emotions and the external forces and situations that shape the world we live in, and that focus our eyes. In A Shining Light, we see intersecting responses to landscape, to country, to environment, to human frailties, and to the very acts of making and seeing.

Davies's next solo exhibition at the gallery will open in October 2020. To join our waiting list, please contact the gallery.⁠

Image: Paul Davies, installation view, Sophie Gannon Gallery

In a video interview with Soho House's Kate Bryan, Head of Collections, for the Art Talks series, Los Angeles–based artist Paul Davies discusses the painting he made for Soho Warehouse, the LA art scene and his recent collaboration with Jesse Carmichael from Maroon 5.

Davies's next solo exhibition will open at the gallery in September 2020. To join our waiting list for new works, please contact the gallery.

Image: Paul Davies in his studio. Photo: Carmen Chan

Paul Davies has collaborated with Maroon 5 keyboards and guitar player Jesse Carmichael on a 2 Minute Movies (2MM) film. In the collaboration, Davies paints one of his his signature acrylic portraits of a mid-century modern house surrounded by tall palms, an image derived from stencils cut from the artist's photos.

The collaboration is featured on Art and Object. In his interview with Jordan Riefe, Davies explains his interest in the idea of the loop and how it reflects on his painting practice . 'Every day you keep coming back and it still needs something.'

View 2MM #13: Paul Davies Modular Painting online.

Image: Paul Davies, Lovell limbo III, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 182 x 152 cm

Paul Davies is included in the current issue of Art Collector in a feature on 50 artists collectors should know.

In an interview with Louise Martin-Chew, Davies explains, 'I am interested in the idealistic nature of modern architecture; this idea that the home can be neutral and devoid of detail to serve a functional purpose. Through the medium of paint however, the hard edges of these structures are softened to become playful spaces open to the possibilities of the individual'.

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Paul Davies's solo exhibition The Golden Days is now showing at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. 

The exhibition explores the connection between Los Angeles, California, and Hill End, New South Wales, through an exploration of landscape and both historical and contemporary notions of the gold rush. 

The Golden Days opens on 7 February and is on display until 22 March 2020.

Image: Paul Davies, Everything Loose Will Land in LA/Double Golden Gully 2, 2017

Andrew Frost's article about Paul Davies appears in Artist Profile ahead of his solo exhibition opening in February 2020 at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, The Golden Days.

The exhibition explores the connection between Los Angeles, California, and Hill End, New South Wales, through an exploration of landscape and both historical and contemporary notions of the gold rush. An example is 'the stands of Australian gum trees that were planted there during the gold rush decades in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, that were used at one time as timber for railway sleepers, and are now planted as wind breaks next to LA’s highways', Frost explains. 

The Golden Days opens on 7 February and is on display until 22 March 2020.

Image: Paul Davies, Everything Loose Will Land in LA/Double Golden Gully 5, 2017

Paul Davies's Three Stories, 2019, an 18-foot-long triptych, is featured in an online preview of Soho Warehouse in Los Angeles in The Hollywood Reporter. Davies's mural is installed on the top floor of the exclusive club's third West Coast location. 

To join our waiting list for new works by Paul Davies, please contact the gallery.

Paul Davies's Three Stories, 2019, has recently been installed on the rooftop of Soho Warehouse in LA. The 18-foot-long triptych is loosely based on the work of writer Joan Didion.

Davies says, ‘I tried to replicate the intersectionality of Los Angeles in my work, rather than paint one continuous picture. I wanted to create a flow of landscapes that present a different story each time'. 

To enquire about available works by Paul Davies, please contact the gallery.

Paul Davies is included in the exhibition On the Edge: Landscapes from the Collection, curated by Kate Hargraves.

Landscapes on the edge are not only what we see, but what is perceived to be present. The melding of the imagined, unimagined and real sparks curiosity, narrative and the lived experiences of being within a landscape. Landscapes are places to ponder, places to fear, places to be enthralled, to sense the sublime existing on the edge where the real and the imaginary become one.

On the Edge represents places we are compelled to inhabit but at the same time have a distancing effect. These landscape spaces confirm our existence within the natural world and within the broader sphere of what is known to exist, as well as the unknown. The exhibition also includes works by Shay Docking, Geoff Dyer, Neil Frazer, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Marea Gazzard, Gertie Huddleston, Alan Jones, Ildiko Kovacs, Mandy Martin, Euan Macleod, Alexander McKenzie, Ginger Riley Munduwalwala, Sally Ross, A.J. Taylor and Craig Waddell.

The exhibition runs from 29 March until 26 April 2019 at Macquarie University Art Gallery.

Landscape in open-plan, 2018, is on show at Laguna Art Museum in the group exhibition Centennial Gifts: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection until 27 May 2019.

Painted using stencils cut from his photographs, Landscape in open-plan depicts the mid century Donald Wexler House in Palm Springs, appearing 'simultaneously idyllic and unnerving'.⁣

Paul Davies is featured in the current issue of Vault. An Australian-born, Los Angeles–based artist, Davies creates paintings that are ‘driven by the friction between opposing forces of built and natural environments, design and art, abstraction and figuration’, writes Alison Kubler. Ahead of the unveiling of Davies's  large-scale work commissioned for Soho House in DTLA, Davies selects his top picks in LA.

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Paul Davies has been commissioned to create a mural – a 5-by-2-metre acrylic on canvas triptych – for the rooptop bar at the new Soho House DTLA Warehouse, opening in 2019. 

About the mural, Davies says: 

The idea is to look at Los Angeles through a lens – sunset colors, deep blue and orange, tying it to films like Mad Max and O Brother, Where Art Thou? where there's a really high contrast between orange and teal. The specific house, I'm not sure. It's an idea, a hope, a vision of the future. To me, the most important element of those homes is what the future holds. It's a Utopian idea. It's what I want to come through in the painting.

In anticipation of the opening, Davies was recently featured discussing his work in The Hollywood Reporter. To read the profile, please click here.

Paul Davies' House Flip in Forest, 2016 (pictured) has been acquired for the Soho House collection. The painting is currently on display at DUMBO House in Brooklyn, New York.

Six of Paul Davies' photograms have been acquired for the Soho House collection at Barcelona Beach. The photograms were created during Davies' recent NG Creative Residency in Provence, France. Davies' photograms (through their titles and compositions) reference one of the oldest surviving photographs: Nicephore Niepce's View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826.

Paul Davies' Landscape in open-plan, 2018 (pictured) has been recently acquired by Laguna Art Museum.

Paul Davies' Sunset on Built Ruins and Lily Pond, 2018 (pictured) has been recently acquired by the University of California Irvine Institute and Museum for California Art.

Paul Davies is included in Eighty @ Eighty, a group exhibition at Palm Springs Art Museum that celebrates the museum's 80th anniversary and diverse permanent collection. Highlighting recent acquisitions and gifts to the museum's permanent collection, the exhibition include sculptures by Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Beverly Pepper, and Ben Jackel, photographs by Julius Shulman, Diane Arbus, John Divola, and Douglas Gordon, and luminous ceramics and glass by Deborah Clashin and Mineo Mizuno, alongside newer works by Mark Bradford.

This exhibition is curated by Mara Gladstone, Associate Curator at Palm Springs, and runs until 16 September 2018.

As part of the Collector Program for Melbourne Art Fair, please join us for an exclusive evening at Flack Studio in Fitzroy with LA-based artist Paul Davies on Friday 3 August 2018.

Paul will discuss his practice and guests will preview works from his upcoming solo exhibition at the gallery in August. Pictured is Untitled 9, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91cm.

Please note that places are limited. If you would like to attend this invitation-only event, please email the gallery to RSVP.

Photograms by Paul Davies have been included in McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery's Framing Nature, an exhibition exploring diverse visual and conceptual approaches to landscape.  

Produced during a 2016 residency at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Davies' photograms (through their titles and compositions) reference one of the oldest surviving photographs: Nicephore Niepce's View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826.

The exhibition opens on 26 November 2017. For further details, please click here

Paul Davies is featured in the November issue of Australian Vogue, explaining the genesis of his series of artworks linking 19th-century gold rushes in California and Australia with modern-day Los Angeles.

Inspired by the Frank Lloyd Wright quote 'everything loose will land in Los Angeles', Davies' exploration of the connection between LA and Australia takes form through a series of collages and paintings. He explains, 'the native Australian gum trees scattered throughout Los Angeles remind me of the gold rush link between both places and how, in a way, this is happening today, as many Australians are drawn to Hollywood.'

 Davies' work is also currently showing at Palm Springs Art Museum in California. For further details, please click here.

Congratulations to Paul Davies, who has been announced as one of the three winners of the 2017 Chippendale World Art Residency for a painting of a landscape that inspires a sense of place. As part of the prize, Davies has been awarded a six-week artist residency in the culturally rich and colourfully inspiring region of Provence and surrounds in Southern France.

About his winning painting, Everything loose will land in LA/Double Golden Gully, 2017, Davies explains, 'the native Australian gum trees scattered throughout Los Angeles remind me of the gold rush link between both places and how, in a way, this is happening today, as many Australians are drawn to Hollywood. Australia's gold rush began after Edward Hargraves noticed the landscapes producing gold in California were also in Australia.'

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Paul Davies talks to Vogue about his latest body of work exploring the relationship between Australia and California from the gold rush period of the 1840s and '50s to the modern-day Hollywood.

 For further details, please click here.

Paul Davies' series of three paintings, Everything Loose Will Land in LA/Double Golden Gully, 2017 (pictured), has been acquired by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, USA. The work is based on the relationship between Australia and California, from the gold rush period of the 1840s and '50s to the modern-day attraction to Hollywood and Silicon Valley. It was recently shown at Rudolph Schindler's modernist Fitzpatrick-Leland House, presented by This By That and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

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Presented by This By That and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Paul Davies' site-specific installationat Rudolf Schindler's iconic Fitzpatrick-Leland House in West Hollywood opens next week with a pool party on Saturday 24 June 2017. The installation features recently completed paintings, bronze sculptures and photograms, and is on view by appointment from 7 until 25 June 2017.

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For the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Paul Davies will be creating a site-specific installation including new paintings, bronze sculptures, photograms and a pool mural at Rudolph Schindler's iconic Fitzpatrick-Leland House in the Hollywood Hills.

Photograms by Paul Davies are currently on show at SMoCA. Produced during a 2016 residency at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, the photographs (through their titles and compositions) reference one of the oldest surviving photographs: Nicephore Niepce's 'View from the Window at Le Gras' (c. 1826).

Paul Davies’ paintings are currently on show at Soho House in LA, a private members’ club for top Hollywood creatives. To view available works by Davies, please click here.

A painting by Paul Davies is included in an LA Times article about architect Dan Brunn's home. Brunn is an LA-based architect and was recently named as one of Architectural Digest's 10 architects to watch in 2017.

To read the article and view the photograph, please click here.

Paul Davies has recently collaborated with his friend, Tame Impala drummer Julien Barbagallo, for the cover artwork for Barbagallo's upcoming solo album, Grand Chien. The album will be released on vinyl on 28 October 2016.

Grand Chien was written and recorded solo (Barbagallo plays all of the instruments) in Melbourne and in hotel rooms around the world. The album artwork collaboration was sparked after Barbagallo's visit to Davies’ LA studio while he was in town to headline the Coachella festival with Tame Impala. The portrait is a first for Davies, who is known for his paintings of mid-century architecture and hyper-coloured landscapes.

Davies will present new work in a solo exhibition at the gallery this month. To register your interest in new works, please contact the gallery.

Photograms by Paul Davies have been acquired by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA. The museum is Arizona's only permanent collection dedicated solely to contemporary works of art, design and architecture. For further information about the museum, please click here.

Congratulations to Paul Davies who has been highly commended in the Chippendale New World Art Prize for his series of photograms, developed during his artist residency at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Phoenix, Arizona.

Responding to the notion of 'organic architecture', Davies created a series of 24 photograms, one per day at various locations around of the property. Sunlight and moonlight are captured at different locations onto paper painted with gum bichromate, a photosensitive solution developed in the 1800s. Using a stencil cut from the photo of the exterior of the Frank Lloyd Wright building, the image was reduced to a silhouette, blending architecture and landscape.

Congratulations to Paul Davies who has been selected as a finalist in the Chippendale New World Art Prize. The winner of the prize will receive a $10,000 residency grant at the Art Studio Ginestrelle Retreat at Mount Subasio, Assisi, Italy.

Davies' entry will be on view as part of the finalists exhibition, opening on Thursday 2 June 2016. 

For further details about the prize, please click here.

Paul Davies is featured in the current issue of Vogue magazine (May 2016). Following his recent residency at Taliesin West, once Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home in Arizona, Davies talks to Sophie Tedmanson about his paintings and photograms and the inspiration he finds from living and working in LA. 

To read the profile, please click here.

Davies' upcoming exhibition, Hollywood Stills, will be held at Sophie Gannon Gallery from 25 October until 12 November 2016. Please contact the gallery for further information.

A recent painting by Paul Davies features in the current exhibition of works from the permanent collection at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. The exhibition runs until 19 June 2016. 

For further information about the exhibition, please click here.

Congratulations to Paul Davies on being awarded the artist residency at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Paul Davies will join students throughout February at Taliesin, the winter home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Davies’ work has been known to the Dean of the School, Aaron Betsky (formerly Director at Cincinnati Art Museum and Director of the Venice Biennale of Architecture), who made mention of his work last year in an essay featured in Architecture Review.

The Taliesin Artist Residency is based at Taliesin, Phoenix, Arizona. Frank Lloyd Wright established the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932, which was based on the idea of the allied arts fostered in a community of learners that could be an alternative to the traditional university. The program developed into Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. From its origins, Taliesin has served as a living, working, educational space, forming a creative and diverse community of professional architects, artists, faculty, students and staff.

To view all available works by Paul Davies, click here

Paul Davies and his wife Sarah Noye Davies are featured in the 9 August 2015 issue of Sunday Life magazine, published by The Age. Click here to read the feature article about Australian creative entrepreneurs living and working in Los Angeles.

Paul Davies is in Colorado for an artist residency this month. To view available works, please click here.

'Limbo Architecture: Painters of Modernism' by Aaron Betsky

Read Aaron Betsky's essay discussing the various interpretations of modernist architecture in the work of Peter Doig, Luc Tuymans, Enoc Perez, Stefan Kurten, Paul Davies, Brian Alfred and Daniel Rich in Architectural Review.

Gallery artists Paul Davies and Danie Mellor are featured in Belle Magazine's December/January 2013/2014 edition. Get a copy to find out more.

The gallery is pleased to announce the addition of Paul Davies to its stable of represented artists. 

Davies has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas and we look forward to holding a solo exhibition at the end of 2014.