Joseph Davie

Joseph Davie was born in Glasgow in 1965.

He studied at Glasgow School of Art during the 80's, when testosterone and figurative painting seemed to go hand in hand. What is so different about Davie is the subtlety and ambiguity of his work.

Georgina Coburn (Freelance Arts Correspondent) has described his work as lyrical, enigmatic, edgy, dreamlike and compelling. She writes : “Gently provocative Davie delights in the surreal juxtaposition of ideas and materials. The meeting of contradictory characters, cultures or visual elements such as colour, pattern or form, create intriguing dialogues in his work. Davie’s wonderfully ambivalent zinc and copperplate etchings, watercolours, oils on canvas and mixed media works inspire an imaginative response. His whole approach to the figure is brilliantly subdued and refreshing. He conveys a sense of the monumental and iconic not through obvious physical scale but in terms of human aspiration."

His work is in numerous public collections including Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, The Kelvingrove Museum, Historic Scotland and the BBC.

Prices range from £90 - £250
'Mouth-piece' - an exhibition of paintings, prints & mixed media works
September 6 - 27, 2008
Please contact the gallery for a preview invitation or download the invitation.

Perhaps (Fear of Women)
18 x 18cm, hand-coloured copper plate etching