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Paul Davies

GQ
Tony Magnusson
April 2011 edition

Paul Davies designs the artist page for the latest edition of GQ

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Lissa Christopher
9 May 2009

Davies is popular with buyers and his latest exhibition of unpeopled architectural paintings - some of which feature fine, hand-cut stencil work and each of which has its own note of mystery - has sold out.

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Wallpaper magazine - Online
29 April 2009

Channelling the bleak panoramic vision of a young David Hockney, Australian artist Paul Davies’s newest series of paintings, on show this month at Sydney's Tim Olsen Gallery are a contemporary lesson in pure aesthetics.

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Inside Out Magazine
Kerrie Davies
April 2009

MY SPACE
PAUL DAVIES

While he’s fast gaining recognition for his paintings of deserted, modernist houses, the cliché of the artist who thrives on solitude doesn’t apply to Paul Davies. The Sydney artist shares his city studio warehouse with fashion designers Chronicles of Never and Asuza and the art directors of The Oxford Art Factory, Edward Woodley and Mark Drew. Next door is Missoni importers Spence & Lyda, opposite a crowded café.

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Belle Magazine
Leeta keens
April/May 2009

Paul Davies’ ongoing interest in modern architecture is yet again in his new show at Tim Olsen Gallery.

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Urbis
2007

Sydney based artist Paul Davies is building a reputation with a new take on landscape painting; glorious panoramas of moderninst houses in bold washes of colour. Inspired by artists like Richard Hamilton and David Hockney, Davies' take on 1970's modernism has resulted in a world of houses that would make perfect feature material for this magazine.

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Sydney Morning Gallery
Clara Iaccarino
24 - 25 March 2007

Paul Davies' name often comes up in lists of hot artists and ones to watch.

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The Australian Magazine
Kerrie Davies
March 2007

Who wil be the next big names? Kerrie Davies paints portraits of some promising young artists.

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Right Now Art - Double Take

Belle Magazine
Edited by Leta Keens
February 2007

Two terrific painting exhibitions are coming up at Sydney's Tim Olsen Gallery, there's Rhys Lee, named in Australian Art Collector's 50 Most Collectable Artists. His are lavish and exhilarating works, with a hint of underlying menace.

Paul Davies' intense, idiosyncratic and popular paintings in homage to modern architecture, not to mention pools, can be seen at the Paddington Street Gallery.

Paul Davies, Modern Copy Exterior, 2006 (left)

Rhys Lee, Gaggedfix#8, 2006 (above)

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Yen Magazine
2006

Directed and managed by Mark Drew and Edward Woodley, founded in 2004 and located in Sydney, China Heights Gallery sits on the 3rd story of a Surry Hills warehouse where, every Friday night, a cacophony of creatives, art lovers, locals, hipsters and walk-ins mill around work from the likes of Kill Pixie, Design is.

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Houses
Colin Martin
October, 2014

Suburban Domestic architecture fascinates Australian artists. Jenny Watson documented street views of five Melbourne houses in which she had lived, titling them by suburb, for example 'Mont Albert' (1975-77). Howard Arkley titled his depictions of suburban housing ironically, including 'A Splendid Superior Home' (1989). In his first solo exhibition in London, held at the Fine Art Society COntemporary gallery, Paul Davies ups the architectural ante, depicting exteriors of archetypal modernist houses.

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