Biographical information

Tim Davies is a Senior Lecturer on the BA in Fine Art programme. He studied at Ravensbourne College, London, Norwich School of Art and the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury. Prior to coming to the Faculty of Art and Design at Swansea, he taught on the BA Sculpture course at Cardiff School of Art & Design at UWIC.

Research profile
His research is practice-based, as an artist working in a range of media including 2D, installation, intervention and video, and as a curator primarily interested in site-responsive work. For further details, please view his webpage on www.axisweb.org/artist/timdavies

Recent exhibitions include the solo shows Cadet and other works which toured to the Collins Gallery, Glasgow, the Harris Museum, Preston and Aberystwyth Arts Centre (2006-7) and Still Life at the City Gallery, Leicester (2004); and group shows Visions in the Nunnery at the Nunnery Gallery, Bow, London (2007); Flourish at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic (2005); Ceremony at the Pump House Gallery, Battersea, London (2005); May you live in interesting times at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (2005) and Over and over, again and again at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2005).

Public collections in which his work is represented include: Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London; Contemporary Art Society; Harris Museum, Preston; National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Cardiff; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth and University of Central Lancashire Electronic and Digital Art Unit.

Awards and prizes include: Wakelin Award (2005); National Eisteddfod of Wales Fine Art Gold Medal (2003); Mostyn Open prize (1997). He was the only European artist short-listed for the inaugural Artes Mundi international visual arts prize (2004).

Tim Davies' curatorial projects include the three Locws site-responsive visual arts events in non-gallery spaces in Swansea, the most recent of which was in 2007, and strata at Strata Florida Abbey, Ceredigion and Kells Priory, County Kilkenny, Eire in 2005 as well as the made in belize exhibitions at the Belizean High Commission in London and the Environment Centre, Swansea in 2002. He is currently developing a new project titled Ground in which will curate emerging artists in a variety of gallery and non-gallery spaces.

Research interests
These include the relationship between art and politics; how concept drives process and vice versa; representations of public grief and private loss; critically, socially and culturally engaged curation within and outside the gallery context.

Conferences and publications
Presentations include: chairing the Locws symposium in 2007; hosting the Artes Mundi conference in 2006; a presentation on his work at the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture & History annual conference in 2006; he was a keynote speaker at the Future Museums: Future Forms? debate at the NMGW, Cardiff in 2006; he gave a Masterclass at Firestation Studios, Dublin, Eire in 2005; the St David's Day lecture at the NMGW, Cardiff in 2004.

Books

• What Artists Need (essay by Tim Davies) Cywaith Cymru:Artworks Wales, 2007

• Arts Council Collection Acquisitions 1989-2002 Arts Council Collection: Hayward Gallery, 2003

• Locws International ed. Tim Davies & David Hastie, 2003

• Here & Now I. Bala: Seren Books, 2003

• Imaging Wales by Hugh Adams: Seren Books, 2003

• Process - explorations of the work of Tim Davies (essays by David Alston, Iwan Bala, Anne Price-Owen & Susan Daniel McElroy): Seren Books, 2002

• Certain Welsh Artists ed. I. Bala (essay by Martin Barlow): Seren Books, 2002

• 2005-`Flourish` Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic

• 2005-`Ceremony` Pump House Gallery, London

• 2005-`May you live in interesting times` Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

• 2005-`Over and Over` Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius

• 2004-`Artes Mundi` National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff

• 2004-`Elsewhere` Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

• 2003 -`Explorations` Middleton, National Botanic Garden of Wales

• 2003 -`Resist!` Crescent Art Gallery, Scarborough

• 2002-`Locws 2` site specific event, Swansea (curator)

• 2002-`made in Belize` Belizean High Commission, London

• 2001-`Contemporary Art in Belize` Olimpio Gallery, Merida, Mexico

• 2000-`Afon`/`River` Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno

• 2000-`Locws International` site specific event, Swansea (curator & exhibitor)

• 2000-`Certain Welsh Artists` National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff & Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

• 2000-`Chora` Hotbath Gallery, Bath, Bracknell Arts Centre & Kendal Art Gallery

• 2006-Lecture on own work Brno, Czech Republic

• 2005-Contemporary Arts Society presentation Cardiff. Tim Davies Masterclass Firestation Studios Dublin

• 2004-Artes Mundi conference presentation Cardiff

Journals/Magazines

• A-N (article by Simon Holly) June 2007 p.9

• The Sticky (Scotland) (article by Morag Keil) Issue 20, May 2007

• The Big Issue Cymru (article by Jason Jones) 13-19 March 2006, No. 501, p. 28

• Design Week (article by Pamela Buxton) 11 August 2005

• www.axisweb.org/dialogue (interview with Gordon Dalton) 2005

• Circa (article by Anne Price-Owen) Winter 2005, issue 114

• Printed Project (article by Tim Davies, John Langan, Ann Mulrooney & Deidre O'Mahony) ‘Love it or leave it' Issue 5, June 2005

• Galleries (article by Caroline Juler) July 2003, p. 13

• Art Review (article by Hannah Shuckburgh) Vol. LIV April 2003, ArtPreview p.63

• A-N (article by Tim Davies & Adrian Barron) July 2002, pp. 32-33

Newspapers

• The Western Mail (article by Karen Price) 29/9/06

• The Guardian Guide (preview by Robert Clark) 10 -16/4/04

• The New York Times (article by Bruce Barcott) 9/5/04

• The Guardian (article by Maev Kennedy) 15/9/03