Selected Works.
Philip Davenport uses language as art material. The common themes of these works are human drives and dilemmas. Desire, violence, loneliness, loss, joy, beauty, ventriloquised by objects, written on the world.
Phil (with Alfie) at The Booth Centre, Manchester, 2016. The Homeless Library, an arthur+martha collaborative project. Photograph by Paul Jones 2016.
Detail, from My Paintings are Invisible, clothes line intervention, Chongqing, China 2009-10. Photograph Julia Grime.
Murmuration dark, the little society exhibition, The Turnpike 2012.
The Dark Would, book, front cover. Published by Apple Pie Editions, 2013.
about everything, book, page detail. Handwritten score by Ben Gwilliam. Published by Apple Pie Editions, 2008.
And down roll their heads, from Heart Shape Pornography, handwritten apple, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2004.