Daniel Davies
Daniel Davies (b. 1992, Blackpool, UK) based in London.
Daniel Davies’ paintings of recurring bodily forms work with repeated motifs of legs, shoes, hands, pathways and vegetation allow images to circulate between figure, landscape and architecture. Bodies become rhythmic structures rather than individual subjects and identities. Through a process of revision, earlier iterations remain active beneath the surface, producing paintings that carry their own memory and unfold through recurrence over resolution. Davies' paintings hold movement in suspension, where atmosphere emerges through duration and the act of looking becomes repetition, return and the emotional structures of ordinary life.
Daniel Davies’ paintings of recurring bodily forms work with repeated motifs of legs, shoes, hands, pathways and vegetation allow images to circulate between figure, landscape and architecture. Bodies become rhythmic structures rather than individual subjects and identities. Through a process of revision, earlier iterations remain active beneath the surface, producing paintings that carry their own memory and unfold through recurrence over resolution. Davies' paintings hold movement in suspension, where atmosphere emerges through duration and the act of looking becomes repetition, return and the emotional structures of ordinary life.
do i look like an atmosphere
Daniel Davies
10 September – 10 October 2026
Education
2023
Royal Academy Schools, London
2015
BA (hons) Fine Art, Northumbria University
Solo Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2018
First Kiss, Sunday-s, Copenhagen, DE
2017
Cloud Illusions, Galleria Acappella, Naples, IT
2015
Daniel Davies, Rod Barton, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2022
Premiums Interim 1, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2021
Copper Plates, Cast Corridor, RA Schools, London, UK (organised by Oliver Tirre & Matt Peers)
Disco, Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK
2019
Touching from a Distance, Workplace Foundation, The Conduit, London, UK
Sensitive Matter, Bridget Riley Studios, London, UK
Generation Y, Freelands Foundation, London, UK
2018
Live Young, Studio 107, London, UK
2017
Touche, Éclat, Workplace Foundation, Gateshead, UK
Markers, Encounter Contemporary, London, UK
We are the ones, Carlsberg Byens Galerie, Copenhagen, DK
You were high when I was doomed, IMT, London, UK
2016
Group Show, Sunday-s, Copenhagen, DK
From The Rocks Above The Pass, Milk Collective, The House Of Blah Blah, Middlesborough, UK
I am a Golden God, Fiebach Minninger, Cologne, DE (Curated by Henning Strassburger),
Here we are now, Entertain us, Collar, Manchester, UK
2015
80 Years, Limoncello, London, UK
Unpainting / Resurfacing, UH Galleries, Hatfield, UK (curated by Matthew Hearn)
2014
Beyond the Goldmine Standard, RPM, Newcastle, UK
Yellow, The Colour Studio, Newcastle, UK
Life is Cheap, Gallery North Project Space, Newcastle, UK
Perplexed, Hoults Yard, Newcastle, UK
Curated
A Bad Policeman is Always Busy, Gallery North, Newcastle, UK (with Mark Jackson)
Awards and Residencies
2015/16 Graduate Studio, Northumbria University
2015 John Crisp Prize for Innovative Work in Painting