Peter Davidson
DRAWINGS
14 July - 14 August 2021
Peter Davidson is a Melbourne-based artist and architect, best known for designing Melbourne’s Federation Square as founder and co-director of LAB architecture studio. 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.
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 architectural line. Meticulous and intricate, the drawings trace a multitude of patterns and forms through the strict constraint of black lines on paper. In 2018 he published a limited edition artist book, Words, Lines. In recent years, Davidson has expanded his practice to include watercolours, exploring form and composition through a more poetic lens. In this exhibition Davidson presents a selection of recent black and white line drawings.
