Mark Davis

Fox Galleries presents a retrospective exhibition of the works of the late Mark Davis, co-curated by Rebecca Agnew and Rhonda Davis, senior curator at the Macquarie University Art Gallery.

“Mark Davis explores the earth as a living entity, steeped in deep time and space. Drawing out its invisible energy forces, the paintings reveal the layering and rhythmic patterns of those movements.

His superb technique, remarkable in manipulation and dexterity makes Davis’ works so compelling, the paintings resonate as living forces.

Philosophy and symbolism underpin the conceptual treatise that Davis’ formulated in the creation of these remarkably rendered paintings.The intense radiance and dynamism Davis captures in mountains, waterways, icebergs and the landscapes he deftly abstracted, burrows deep into our imagination.

Mark’s fascination into “parallel universes”reverberates throughout these luscious paintings. Mark encountered the natural world andhumanity in all its rich tapestry, responding with works that are aglow with an everlasting brilliance.”

– Rhonda Davis

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Radiance. It is a vibrance transmitted, received, and reflected. It is up close and light years away. This is how Mark Davis painted.

Mark Davis sadly passed away at this time last year in 2020. One of the first of many conversations with Mark was laughing over imagining parallel universes; now we can find solace in the branching paths of the stories told through the universes within his paintings.

Each painting presented in Fox Galleries Boardroom and Gallery is an invitation, thick paint and luscious surface abound with anticipation. Reflections of a painter balanced between abstraction and figuration, always on a quest to find another version, another time, another place; an anti-verse and a multi-verse.

Through his canvas Mark Davis was an adventurer of remote corners, an explorer of the underwater world, surveying the land and burrowing into the depths of the earth’s mantle. Radiance at the edge of darkness is an expression of heartfelt connection with the conservation of our environment and the world beyond.

It has been a joy to co-curate this exhibition with Rhonda Davis and to celebrate the life of a painter who lives on seeking anew.

– Rebecca Agnew
Fox Galleries Curator