David Morgan-Davies
Predominantly my work (both photography and film) comes from my relationship with the landscape of the UK; often relating to locations I have personal connections with. It seeks to capture small details and fleeting moments in the vastness that surrounds us. Over the years I have moved to investigate what isn’t there, just as much as what is, and enjoy working with digital collage, pinhole photography and abstraction.
Qualifications and training
2003 - MA Communication Media (Interactive), University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol
1981-85 - OND/HND Musical Instrument Technology, London College of Furniture
Solo exhibitions
2020 - Another Surface, Gallery at Home, Usk
2013 - Lost in Transition, The Searchers contemporary, Bristol
2012 - What you see is what you see, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
Group exhibitions
2024 - Inside / Out, Oriel Y Bont, University of South Wales Treforest
2023 - Resilience, Cardiff M.A.D.E
2022 - Camaraderie, Gallery at Home, Usk
2022 - Hibernators, The Art Shop & Chapel, Abergavenny
2022 - Winter Open, Cardiff M.A.D.E
2021 - OPEN 20/21, Shutter Hub, London
2020 - Postcards From Great Britain: Haarlem, Shutter Hub, Netherlands
2020 - Everyday Delight, Shutter Hub, Free Project Space, London
2019 - Home is not a Place, Gallery at Home, Usk, S.Wales
2019 - Anderswo ist hier:Elsewhere is here, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
2018 - Elsewhere is here:Anderswo ist hier, Turba Gallery, Hannover, Germany
2018 - Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
2017 - 165th Autumn Open, Royal West of England Academy
2017 - Rising Film Screening, St John on Bethnal Green, London
2016 - 164th Autumn Open, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol
2016 - Utopia:Dystopia, FaB 2016, Bath
2016 - Of the Sea, Chatham Historic Dockyard
2016 - Pay & Display, Centrespace gallery, Bristol
2015 - 163rd Autumn Open, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol
2015 - The Plymouth Contemporary Open
2014 - 162nd Autumn Open, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol
2014 - Shooting from the Hip, Centrespace gallery, Bristol
2014 - BV Studios Group Show, Sidcot Gallery, Sidcot Somerset
2013 - W_CA Contemporary Landscape Photography Open, Worcester City Gallery & Museum
2013 - 161st Autumn Open, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol
2013 - Visual Arts Exhibition, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Denbigh, North Wales
2013 - F-Number, The Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol
2012 - 160th Autumn exhibition, RWA, Bristol
2012 - All at Sea, Pie Factory, Margate
2012 - New Visions II, Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol
2011 - Real Bath Art Prize, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
2010 - Phone-ography, Photographique, Bristol
2010 - The Open, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
2009 - Memory/Imagination, Art Purchase Prize, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff
2009 - Territory, The Otter Gallery, University of Chichester
2008 - Artsway Open, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire
2008 - Through the Lens, RWA, Bristol
Curated projects
2022 - Hibernators, The Art Shop & Chapel, Abergavenny
2010 - Crossing the Threshold, Bristol Festival of Photography
2010 - illuminate - The Longest Night, various pop-up locations, Bedminster, Bristol
2009 - illuminate - Spring Forward, various pop-up locations, Bedminster, Bristol
Residencies
2016 - The Mothership, Dorset
2013 - Brisons Veor, Residential artists’ studio, Cape Cornwall
2011 - Rural idyll 2, Little Dodnash Farm, Suffolk Competitions, prizes and awards
Awards
2021 - Best in Show, OPEN 20/21, Shutter Hub, London
2013 - Bristol Festival of ideas, Temple Meads Gateway Project shortlist
2012 - Louise Copping Fine Art Award, RWA, Bristol
2010 - People’s Prize winner, Photographique
Publications
2021 - Right to Roam, Inside the Outside
2020 - Literary Journal, ASP Publishing (online)
2014 - The State of Art – Landscape & Portrait #1, Bare Hill Publishing, UK