1st Solo Exhibition Sold Out …
Her first solo art exhibition, themed Anti-Apathy, was held in Sydney, December 1982. The exhibition sold out! Most of the pieces were jig-saw puzzle motif, social commentary drawings created during her solo bus journeys over much of Australia.
Retrospective Exhibition Achievements
For an artist to have their creative development exhibited throughout a series of public art galleries requires high artistic achievement and reputation.
From 1999 to 2002, the retrospective exhibition Davson - With Gratitude for the Light toured Australia. Of the 65 exhibits (dating from 1972 to 1999), many were on loan from collections such as James Fairfax AO, the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Cathay Pacific Airlines, Time Life Warner, Konica, the El Lago Resort, Swiss Design & Decor, the Rooty Hill RSL Club & Resort, the Ian Fairweather Art Gallery & Museum.[read more="Read more" less="Read less"]
In 2000, this impressive retrospective provided the opening exhibition of the Gatton Shire Davson Art Gallery in Davson's home town of Gatton, Queensland. (This gallery closed in 2007 to make way for the new Lockyer Valley Cultural Centre.)
From 2008 to 2011, a second major retrospective exhibition, Davson ~ World Leaders and Enlightenment toured public art galleries and venues. Many of the 45 artworks (dating from 1972 to 2008) were on loan from superannuation investment fund collections. It previewed at the Hunter Valley Gardens with acclaimed British-Australian singer Leo Sayer and the Cessnock Mayor John Clarence officiating.
Davson ~ World Leaders and Enlightenment became the opening exhibition for the new Lockyer Valley Cultural Centre in Gatton in December 2009; and provided the opening exhibition of the Davson Arts Museum in Newcastle, New South Wales.
Patrons for Davson ~ World Leaders and Enlightenment included: Newman Haas Racing with Paul Newman and Carl Haas, Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Jack Brabham, Dame Cleo Laine, Leo Sayer, Layne Beachley, Kelly Slater, Pat Farmer and other entertainment and sporting celebrities
From Public Art Galleries
to Royal Collections
Japan’s Hikaru Memorial Museum in Takayama and Australia’s Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. in Darwin are examples of high-profile museums with significant paintings by Sharon Davson. Her art is currently housed in over forty regional art galleries and civic collections in Australia, Japan and New Zealand.
There are two works of art by Davson in the Royal Collection of Great Britain and one artwork in the Royal Collection of Malaysia.
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