Angela Davies
Angela Davies, is a north Wales based artist. Her work negotiates support systems and the fragile networks they carry. Spanning scale and processes, Davies is often drawn to using organic materials to explore ideas of transformation. She works across drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video and performance. Speculating upon processes embodied in nature to help us understand our human experience.
Davies completed her Masters with Distinction at Manchester School of Art (2013) and subsequently co-founded StudioMADE a cross-disciplinary studio within Wales. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions such as Glynn Vivian, Swansea, S12 Galleri Bergen, Norway, V2 Lab for the Unstable Media, Netherlands, Pontio, Bangor and Meno Parkas Galerija, Kaunas, Lithuania.
In 2022 Angela was awarded a Future Wales Fellowship - one of 8 artists across Wales selected to engage in one of the Climate emergency themes in a distinct programme delivered by ACW and Natural Resources Wales. Selected awards include Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award (2018/19), ESRC Impact Accelerator Account at Bangor University (2018), Innovate UK (2017) for Light Choreographies, A-N Time & Space Bursary and New Collaborations Bursary for participation in ISEA14.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION:
2011-2013 MA Textiles with Distinction, Manchester School of Art, MMU
2005 Qualified Teaching Status (QTS), Art & Design Graduate Teacher Programme, Welsh Assembly Government
2000 BA (Hons) Contemporary Crafts, Manchester Metropolitan University
1997 BTEC National Diploma Foundation Art & Design, Yale College, Wrecsam
AWARDS:
2022 - 2023 Arts Council of Wales & Natural Resource Wales: Future Wales Fellowship
2020 A-N Time and Space Bursary
Arts Council of Wales Stabilisation fund
2018 National Theatre Wales, Reading the Skies, Digital Located Residency – StudioMADE, Denbigh
Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award, Tomorrow’s World, 2018/19
2017 Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account, Bangor, University Birds on the Move
2016 Innovate UK Technology Strategy Board, Light Choreographies
Arts Council of Wales Small Production, Light Choreographies
Innovate UK & Arts Council England Arts & Technology Accelerator, Manchester Digital Laboratory
2015 TESLA Award: CoLab, Pontio Innovation Centre, Bangor, Wales
Arts Council of Wales: Research & Development Grant, Lens and Light Research
SIP Glyndwr University Research Award for research at the OpTic Centre, Wales, Lens and Light Research
2014 A-N New Collaboration Bursary to attend ISEA15, Dubai,
Arts Council of Wales: Production Grant, Golau installation works and performance, Chirk Castle (NT) Wrecsam,
2013 PROOF Print Scholarship, Regional Print Centre, Wrecsam, Wales
Arts Council Wales: Research & Development Grant, Marking Time
2010 Manchester Book Fair Prize: Ratchford LTD & Hot Bed Press
2005 Welsh Assembly Government, Graduate Teacher Programme
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Birds on the Move, Pontio Arts Centre, Bangor University
2017 - 2018 Impermafrost, S12 Galleri, Bergen, Norway
Light Choreographies, The LEVEL Centre, Derbyshire / Pontio White Box, Bangor;
Light Choreographies Performance: Theatr Mwldan
2016 Silent Spaces, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan, Wales
SpyGlass, A site-responsive light installation, Bryn Celli Ddu Buriel Chamber, Wales
2015 Weaving Narratives - a site-specific installation, St Asaph Cathedral, Wales
2013 Marking Time, People’s Market (Ty Pawb), Wales
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023/24 Holdfast, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2023 Syfrdanol, IKT + Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
2023 Fud live audio-visual performance with Mark Ealgen at Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
2022 Cosmological Elements, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
2022 Print exhibition, Ruthin Craft Centre
2021 GMTF International film festival, Northlands, Scotland; Japan; New York
2020 Art & Climate Showcase, Watershed, Bristol
2018 New Value Systems, V2 Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam [Balance UnBalance 2018]
2017 Impermafrost, Piksel Electronic Art Festival, Bergen, Norway
ASMbly, The Superposition, Leeds, UK
2016 SpyGlass, Manchester Digital Laboratory, Manchester
Flow, Stitch Your Brain, Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
2015 Net Reality, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy
LUMEN PRIZE, Online gallery of Long listed artists
Z Varnauskas, Meno Parkas Galerija, Kaunas, Lithuania
Ffolio, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran, Wales
The Vestry, Llawn / CALL, Llandudno, Wales
Conflux, Galleria Pihatto, Lappeenranta, Finland
Illuusio, The Memory of the Carousel, Old Glass Factory, Riihimaki, Finland
2014 The Presence of Absence, Haus of Helfa, Tedder House, Llandudno, Wales
Flow, Llif, Verta, Gallery 3B, International Show - Finland Wales
Mapio Madoc Creadigol, Oriel Wrecsam, Wales
2013 Pinpoint, One Church Street Gallery, Missenden, UK
What? Now! MA Show, Manchester School of Art, MMU, Manchester, UK
Metamorphosis, Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield, UK
Here, There, Everywhere, Creative International, Oriel Wrecsam, Wales
2012 Marking Moments, Manchester Special Collections, All Saints, MMU, Manchester, UK
Ashdown Gallery, Forest Row, Sussex
2009 Class Acts, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
ARTIST RESIDENCIES:
2023 Cove Park, Scotland
2019 National Theatre Wales, visiting artist on EGIN Climate Change project
2018 National Theatre Wales, ‘Reading the Skies’, Digital Located Residency
Alps Art Academy, Safiental, Switzerland
Bangor University ESRC Impact Accelerator Account: Creative Practitioner in Residence
2017 S12 Galeri, Bergen, Norway
Cadw Welsh Assembly Government: Arts & Heritage - final phase Art + Archaeology, Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, Wales
2016 HOME Manchester, Protovoulia Paradoxparadox
Current Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, Resident Artist
Cadw Welsh Assembly Government: Arts & Heritage - second phase Art + Archaeology, Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, Wales
2016 Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), Arts+Tech Accelerator Programme, Manchester (ACE + Innovate UK)
2015 Cadw Welsh Assembly Government: Arts & Heritage - first phase Art + Archaeology, Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, Wales
2014-2015 Arts Council of Wales, St Asaph Cathedral, Wales
2014 (CALL) Haus of Helfa, Tedder House, Llandudno, Wales
2013-2014 Ruthin Craft Centre / Chirk Castle (National Trust), Wales - Arts Council Wales
2013 Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Gawthorpe Hall (National Trust) LancashireMEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Resident Artist at Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol
Associate member of Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
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