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.
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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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