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Tim Davies

Swansea
I work in a range of media, exhibiting and making work in Wales, the UK and internationally. The core of my work is time- and site- resposive. My recent practice is exploring the written, spoken and visualised word.

I've always been interested in working with a range of media to develop work using the most appropriate material. This is why it may appear a mixed bag. For instance, recent exhibitions have used projections in one space, museum cabinets in another, found and reconstructed elements on a wall in another space, and so on. I like the idea of mixing things up, where you can play with the senses and encourage the audience to go from one set of experiences and readings to another. A political sensibility, together with an awareness of where and how work is situated, whether for gallery or non-gallery pieces, are at the core of my practice. It's a case of context and flexibility. In 2011 I represented Wales at the Venice Biennale in a solo show. Collections: Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London; National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff; Contemporary Art Society of Wales; Harris Museum, Preston; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno; Poustinia Earth Art Park, Belize

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 - Celebrating 25 years of the Wakelin Award, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

2023 - The Rules of Art? Amgueddfa Cymru, Cardiff

2020 - Epona National Eisteddfod of Wales AmGem online exhibition

2019 - On Paper Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition including Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon

2019 - Then + Now MOMA, Machynlleth

2016 - Vancouver Biennale, Canada 

2016 - Fierce Light NUA Gallery, Norwich 

2016 - A Journey: For Jan Morris Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw

2016 - Romacing Wales MOMA, Machynlleth 

2014 - The Postcard is a Public Work of Art X Marks the Bökship, London

2013 - Let's see what happens... Glynn Vivian off-site, Swansea

2012 - A Focus For Memory The Collection & Usher Gallery, Lincoln

2012 - CARIBBEAN Crossroads of the world El Museo del Barrio, New York City, USA

2012 - Harlech Biennale X, ICAW, Harlech

2012 - The Artists' Postcard Show Spike Island, Bristol

2012 - Welsh Landscapes The Lightbox, Woking

2010 - The Changing Landscape Oriel y Parc, St David's, Pembrokeshire

2009 - A Picture of You? Identity in Contemporary British Art The Graves Gallery, Sheffield

2009 - The Light Across the Street W A L L, London

2008 - @earthlink.org Cazenovia Gallery, New York

2008 - The Wharf Road Project Wenlock Building, London

2007 - Elixir Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester

2007 - Visions in the Nunnery The Nunnery Gallery, London

2006 - May you live in interesting times Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

2005 - Ceremony Pump House Gallery, London

2005 - Flourish Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic

2005 - Over and Over Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

2005 - strata Kells Priory and Strata Florida Abbey, Kilkenny, Ireland and Ceredigion, Wales

2004 - Artes Mundi National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Cardiff

2004 - Horizons Haage Kunstkring, The Hague, Netherlands

2003 - Elsewhere Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

2003 - Explorations National Botanic Garden of Wales, Middleton

2003 - Resist Crescent Art Gallery, Scarborough

2002 - Harlech Biennale Harlech

2002 - Made in Belize London, Swansea and Sveio, Norway

2001 - Contemporary Art in Belize Olimpio Gallery, Merida, Mexico

2000 - Afon/River Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno

1999 - 2nd Biennale Belize Earth Park Project, Belize

1999 - Alice Maher/Tim Davies Triskell Gallery, Cork and Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

1999 - Chora Underwood Gallery London

1998 - Alice Maher/Tim Davies Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno; City Art Gallery, Edinburgh

1998 - Clean Slate Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1996 - Site-ations Artists Project, Cardiff

1996 - Transformations Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland

1995 - Standpoints Wrexham Arts Centre

1994 - Kunstikontakt Tallin, Estonia

1993 - Artspace Warehouse Artists Studio, Norwich

1993 - East International Norwich Gallery

1992 - Sea Gorse and Phantoms Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury

1991 - Arc Nene College, Northampton

1990 - Mythologies St Gregory's Art Centre, Norwich

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 - Survival Is Not A Crime GS Artists, Swansea

2015 - ongoing Figures on the Foreshore Public Art Commission, Battersea, London

2014 - Within Norwich University of the Arts Gallery

2013 - Drift National Museum, Cardiff 

2012 - In and Amongst Fold Gallery, London

2011 - Tim Davies, Wales at Venice Venice Biennale, Venice

2010 - Between a rock and a hard place Mostyn, Llandudno

2010 - Seeriad/Series Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia

2010 - Year to Heaven Chapter, Cardiff

2009 - Between a rock and a hard place Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

2009 - Kilkenny Shift The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

2008 - Figures in a Landscape V22Ashwin Street Gallery, London

2006 - Cadet and other works Harris Museum, Preston; Collins Gallery, Glasgow; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, touring exhibition

2004 - Still Life City Gallery, Leicester

2003 - Process Wrexham Arts Centre and Oriel Davies, Newtown, touring exhibition

2002 - Drummer Boy National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff

1997 - Capel Celyn Spacex, Exeter

1997 - Continuum Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

1996 - Gwaith/Work I Wrexham Library Arts Centre

1996 - Gwaith/Work II Oriel 31, Newtown, Wales

1996 - Solfach Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff

1994 - Burnt Wall Mission Gallery, Swansea

PROJECTS

2008 - Ground:, Site-responsive project, founder and curator, to present

2000 - Locws International, co-founder and curator (until 2007), Swansea

COMPETITIONS, PRIZES AND AWARDS

2008 - Major Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales, Wales

2005 - Wakelin Award

2004 - Shortlisted for international Artes Mundi prize, National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Cardiff

2003 - Fine Art Gold Medal Winner, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Meifod

1998 - Winner, Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno

QUALIFICATIONS

1991 - MA, Art and Architecture, University College for the Creative Arts, Canterbury

1990 - BA Hons, Fine Art, Norwich School of Art

 

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