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Shona Davies’ work offers fleeting glimpses into peoples’ lives. The viewer is encouraged to construct meaning from ambiguous scenes, where an infinite number of interpretations are possible. The work weaves functions, events and narrative together into a diminutive museum of the imagination.
‘Miniature, yet intricately crafted abandoned rooms are painted to give a coating of what appears to be the dust of years of neglect. We peer in, intruding on these deserted spaces. Simultaneously inviting and repellent, the rooms are pervaded by melancholy, charged with the extreme loneliness of those who once inhabited them. It’ s almost a relief to find them gone’. -- Jessica Hall, Curator 2007
Davies is currently based in London, England. She recently graduated with First Class Honours from Sir John Cass College of Art, and won joint first prize in the Owen Rowley Award, as well as being a recipient of the Sir John Cass Purchase prize.
Davies has shown internationally and forthcoming group exhibitions include Pure_ Mixed Media Group Show, Ferreira Projects, Shoreditch, London and SaLon Gallery at FORM.
Education 2002-2007 BA Honours in Fine Art: First Class Honours London Metropolitan University Sir John Cass College of Art and Design
Forthcoming Exhibitions
2008 (3rd April-26th April ) Pure_ Mixed Media Group Show, Ferreira Projects, Shoreditch, London Recent selected Group Exhibitions 2008 (24th Jan – 28th Feb 2008) SaLon Gallery London and (28th Feb – 2nd March 2008) SaLon Gallery at FORM-London Contemporary Art & Design Fair, London 2007 (6th December 2007- 5th January 2008) Pure_ Printmaking Group Show, Ferreira Projects, Shoreditch, London 2007 (18-21st October) Affordable Art Show Recent Graduate Showcase, Battersea, London 2007 (June-July) Group Show: New London Artists Printmaking Show 2007, Gallery J:Akebono-so, Isesaki, Japan 2007 (February), Group Show: 'Originals' printmaking exhibition, Mall Galleries 2006 (August) Tower Hamlets Art Pavilion: Group summer show 2006 (May-June) 'Nausea' Group Show, Hackney Round Chapel & PUMPHouse Gallery , Trollhättan, Sweden 2006 (April-June) Group Show : New London Artists Printmaking Show, Gallery J:Akebono-so, Japan 2006 (February) Group Show: 'Originals' printmaking exhibition, Mall Galleries 2005 (June) Group Show: Audrey Street Gallery, Hackney
Awards: Owen Rowley Art Prize: Joint First prize winner: Summer 2007 and Sir John Cass Purchase Prize 2007
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