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 2025, 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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Statement
My practice draws upon processes in nature, with meditations on fragile ecologies and the support systems they carry. Through tracing cycles and patterns across the human and natural world, the work invites atunement to environmental rhythms and temporalities.
Reflections on being born on the edge of Wales has shaped my perception of borders and the boundary systems we create. My current inquiry, informed by maternal experiences and feminist theory, unfolds the relationships between bodies of water, gestation and extraction. Water acts as a connective force, tracing the entanglements of industry, memory, and ecology.
Site-specific encounters function as spaces for action and exchange, for sensing and monitoring. In recent works, harvesting, cultivating and casting sea salt serves as material, practice and metaphor; enacting cycles of transformation and regeneration. My practice also explores materiality through film and analogue processes.
Collaboration and dialogue play an active role within the evolution of the work. Ongoing exchanges and site visits engage with diverse communities, including ocean scientists, informing investigations into ecological systems, planetary temporalities, and deep time. Across these encounters, themes of identity, labour, memory, and the body are continually negotiated.
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