Angela Davies
Angela Davies is an interdisciplinary artist from Wales. She completed her Masters with Distinction at Manchester School of Art in 2013. In 2025 she had her first major solo show in Wales at Plas Glyn y Weddw supported by Arts Council Wales.
Her work has been exhibited at Currents New Media, Sante Fe (2025), Glynn Vivian, Swansea (2024), IKT/Mostyn, Llandudno (2023), Fosun Foundation, Shanghai (2022), S12 Galleri Bergen, Norway (2018) and V2 Lab for the Unstable Media, Netherlands (2018).
Selected awards include the Future Wales Fellowship (2022 – 23) as part of Arts Council Wales and Natural Resources Wales’ Creative Nature programme, Arts Council Wales Creative Wales Award (2019), ESRC Impact Accelerator Award at Bangor University (2018), Innovate UK (2018), A-N (2020). Fluxus Experimental Film shortlist (2026) and in 2024 she was commissioned by the Greenman Trust for a new public art installation. The film was subsequently long-listed by the Aesthetica Art Prize (2025).
In 2055, Davies was commissioned by IVAE for Performance Art Land commission in Wales, the resulting film has been screened at Chapter Arts Centre, Glynn Vivian, Swansea, Fotografiska, Shanghai, and it is touring to Busan Museum of Art and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
Selected residencies include Cove Park, Scotland (2022), Bangor University (2018), Alps Art Academy (2018), National Theatre Wales (2018), Pervasive Media and HOME (2018).
Davies co-founded studioMADE - an artist led space in Wales with Mark Eaglen in 2015.
In 2022, Davies was commissioned by Invisible Flock to participate in ASEF Creative Responses to Sustainability - ASEF publication
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Through sculpture, painting, performance, sound and film, Davies navigates ecological themes, weaving ideologies around materiality, site and a sense of time. Negotiating support systems and the fragile networks they carry her work explores embodied live performance and intertwines maternal and gestational experiences. Relations of hybridity and care are fostered as sites of connectivity and agency.
Spanning scale and process, she often incorporating organic materials including wax and salt. Salt serves both as a material and metaphor, symbolising cycles of transformation and regeneration while resonating with ecological, cultural, and historical significance. She speculates upon processes embodied in nature to help us understand our human experience.
Her engagement in film and analogue processes expands her exploration of materiality and ecological processing. These techniques allow her to engage with the organic, generative processes within her practice.
Davies’s practice is often collaborative, and she seeks opportunities for dialogue with diverse communities. Including ocean scientists through site visits and conversations, exploring ecological and planetary scales, including deep time and the tides.
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