122 - Ellie Davies
© Ellie Davies
Ellie Davies (Born 1976) lives in Dorset and works in the woods and forests of Southern England. She gained her MA in Photography from London College of Communication in 2008 and has been working in the UK’s forests for the past nine years, making work which explores the complex interrelationship between the landscape and the individual.
Ellie is represented by Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery in the UK, Patricia Armocida Gallery in Milan, Susan Spiritus Gallery in California, A.Galerie in Paris and Brussels and Brucie Collections in Kiev.
Her most recent series, Fires, was selected as a Finalist in the Klompching NY Fresh 2019 Summer Show and received a Gold and two Bronze awards in the Moscow International Photography Awards 2019 and Winner in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards: Professional Landscapes and Seascapes category. Fires was also selected Winner of the 12th Pollux Awards: Professional Fine Art Series, and Professional Conceptual Nominee: Fine Art Photography Awards 2019 and awarded Winner in the Nature, Environment and Perspectives category of the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2019.
Stars 8 was awarded ‘Fine Art Single Image Winner’ in the Magnum Photography Awards 2017 and in The Celeste Prize 2017 and was exhibited at The Photographers Gallery in London and Bargehouse OXO London in October 2017. Ellie was also a Selected Winner in AI-AP’s American Photography 33 (2017) and Landscape Winner in PDN’s The Curator Awards 2016. The six winning artists were exhibited at Foley Gallery in New York in 2016. Her Stars series was also selected for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 and received The People Choice Award.
Ellie’s has had many solo exhibitions internationally and her work is currently on display in a touring exhibition for The Imperial Hospital Trust, currently at St Mary’s Hospital in London, until late February 2020.
On episode 122, Ellie discusses, among other things:
Her recent ‘dry spell’.
Her first landscape seriess, Silent, Dark and Deep
The ‘Twilights’ exhibition at the V&A museum
How the word ‘banal’ during a crit changed everything
Getting into the woods
An insight into process
The gallery system and getting in to it
Building nests
Artist Statements
Her series’ Stars and Come With Me
Referenced:
Trudie Stephenson
“I wanted to find a way of having a relationship with the landscape. And the way I’ve done that is to try and spend time in a place and have a process of making something within it. Because for me there’s something that happens when I’m doing something with my hands or something creative where you’re looking differently, you’re thinking differently, you’re utilising material around and you’re spending time there. And there’s also a kind of slowing down. You’re occupying that space in a way. And creating something. But something temporary.”
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