Angela Davies
Exhibitions
AWARDS
2017 Impact Accelerator Account, Economic & Social Research Council
2016 Arts Council Wales Small Production
Innovate UK: Light Choreographies
2015 TESLA, Pontio Innovation, Bangor
Arts Council Wales: Research & Development Grant
2015 SIP Award Research collaboration: lens and lighting technology
2014 Long-listed Artist for Lumen Digital Art Prize
A-N New Collaboration Bursary: Collaboration with Janet Bezzant (MMU University)
2014 Arts Council Wales: Grant for the Arts One-Off Production Golau, Chirk Castle
2013 PROOF Print Scholarship, Regional Print Centre, Wrecsam
2013 Arts Council Wales: Research & Development Grant
2010 Manchester Book Fair Prize: Ratchford LTD & Hot Bed Press
RESIDENCIES
2016 - present: Permanent Resident at StudioMADE, Wales
2016 - present: Resident Artist at Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol
2017 S12 Galley, Bergen, Norway
Cadw - third phase of Art + Archaeology project at Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, Wales
2016 Cadw - second phase of Art + Archaeology project at Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, Wales
Arts+Tech Accelerator Programme, MadLab, Manchester (Arts Council England + Innovate UK)
2015 Cadw - First phase of Art + Archaeology project at Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, WalesBryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey, Wales
2014-2015 St Asaph Cathedral, Wales - Arts Council Wales, ADDO, St Asaph Cathedral
2014 Haus of Helfa, Tedder House, Llandudno, Wales
2013-2014 Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
Chirk Castle (National Trust), Wales
2013 Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Gawthorpe Hall, nr Padiham, Lancashire, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Impermafrost, S12 Galerri, Bergen, Norway
2017 Light Choreographies, White Box, Pontio, Bangor, Wales
2016 Silent Spaces, Oriel MWLDAN, Wales
2015 Weaving Narratives, St Asaph Cathedral, Wales
2013 Marking Time, Arts Council Wales funded exhibition, Wales
2010 Ephemeral, Theatre Clwyd, Wales
2009 Lost & Found, First Edition, Oswestry, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Dwr [Water] Interactive Audio-Visual exploration of water, Studio MADE,Denbigh, Wales
2016 Notations 1864: Interactive Audio Installation, Studio MADE,Denbigh, Wales
Studio MADE Launch, Denbigh, Wales
Show + Tell, Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), UK
Flow, Stitch your Brain in collaboration with Gemma Latham, Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham, UK
2015 Net-Reality, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy
TEXTIL Interpretations, Meno Parkas, Lithuania
Ffolio, Llantarnam Grange Art Centre, Cwmbran, Wales
Vestry, Llawn / Call / Helfa Gelf, Llandudno, Wales
Conflux: Finland Wales Exchange Programme, Galleria Pihatto, Lappenranta, Finland
Illuusio, The Memory of the Carousel, Riihimaki Old Glass Factory, Riihimaki, Finland
2014 The Presence of Absence, Haus of Helfa, Tedder House, Llandudno, Wales
Flow, Llif, Verta, Gallery 3B, International Show - Finland Wales
Mapio Madoc Creadigol, Oriel Wrecsam, Wales
2013 Pinpoint, One Church Street Gallery, Missenden, UK
What? Now! MA Show, Manchester School of Art, MMU, Manchester, UK
Metamorphosis, Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield, UK
Here, There, Everywhere, Creative International, Wrecsam, Wales
2012 Marking Moments, Manchester Special Collections, All Saints, MMU, Manchester, UK
2011 Trace, The Gallery, Masham, North Yorkshire, UK
2010 Puppets, Mobiles and Automata, One Church Street Gallery, Missenden, UK
2009 Class Acts, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
ART FAIRS / BOOK FAIRS
2011 MADE11, Corn Exchange, Brighton, UK
2010 The Fifth Manchester Artists’ Book Fair, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
2010 L’avenir En Papier Exposition Artists’ Book Fair, Gard, France
2009 First Edition The Art of the Book, The Workhouse Gallery, Llanfyllin, Powys
Bristol Book Fair, Bristol, UK
Theatre Harlech, Harlech, Wales
2008 Manchester Book Fair, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
PAPER PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES & TALKS
2017 Light Choreographies, Studio MADE
2016 Illuminated Worlds, Pervasive Media, Bristol
Superposition, The Lowry, Manchester
Show + Tell, Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), Manchester
2015 Weaving Narratives, Llandrillo College
2014 Does Time mark us, or do we mark time? ISEA2014, Zayed University, Dubai
(International Symposium of Electronic Art)
Golau - Light Networks, Transgressive Thread, University Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey
Tracing Time, Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham, nr Burnley
Memory of Place - A Site-Responsive Exploration, Coleg Cambria, Wrecsam, Wales
2013/2014 Golau: presented the creative journey of the ACW funded residency, Ruthin Craft Centre
2013 Creative Technologies & Craft Practice, Art Lab, Manchester School of Art, MMU
Metamorphosis, Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield
Making in Layers, Writing in Creative Practice, HEA, Chester University
2012 Marking Moments, Special Collections, Manchester Metropolitan University
Thinking Through Making, Writing in Creative Practice, Staffordshire University
COMMISSIONED WORK
2016 BBC Connected Studios: Build Studio
2015 Artists’ Books: Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
Light Sculpture: St Kentigern Hospice, Wales
2014 Tracing Time Contemporary Lace Installation, Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
2014 Mapio Madoc Creadigol, Oriel Wrecsam, Wales:
Underwater film collaboration with Ant Dickinson, Francesca Simmons & Karen Heald
2000-present Private Commissions
2000 Private & Public commissions: Agrinio, Greece
COLLECTIONS
2000 - PRESENT: Private & Public Collections
2014 Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
2013 Alke Groppel-Wegener, Staffordshire University, UK
2010 The University of Northampton, UK
2009 The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage & Construction, Texas
2008 Artists’ Books Special Collection, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Does Time mark us, or do we mark time? ISEA2014
(International Symposium of Electronic Art 2014)
2013 Making in Layers, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Volume 6 Number 2
2011 Work featured in Craft Galleries Guide, Caroline Mornement,BCF Books, 11th Edition
PROJECT LEAD/CURATED SHOWS
2016 Studio MADE Launch, Denbigh, Wales
2015 NET-Reality, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy
2015 Pilgrimage & Journeying Film Screenings at St Asaph Cathedral with selected artists:
Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Alec Shepley, Tracy Piper-Wright, Ant Dickinson, Ronan Devlin,
Karen Heald, Stephanie Paillet, Stuart McAdam & Mark Eaglen
2014 Golau, ACW Funded Exhibition and Production, Chirk Castle, Wrecsam, Wales
2013 Marking Time, ACW Funded Research & Development
2012 A Sense of Place, People’s Market, Wrecsam, Wales
Coordinated, Selected and Curated an Open Art Exhibition
support from Wrecsam County Borough Council, Oriel Wrecsam, Glyndwr University & ADDO