Phoebe Davies

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Phoebe Davies is an artist and producer. Her practice is defined by its location and context, investigating and exploring how people perceive their social framework. Her outcomes are often project dependent, including; constructed social spaces, live performances, video, audio and print works.

Often she works with and in response to individuals and communities, generating work through collaboration and collective action be this DJ performances in elderly care homes, feminist nail salons or public road-side installations connecting farming villages.

Her work is often ephemeral and chanced upon, existing in pedestrian spaces as well as in galleries and institutions, including: Tate Britain and Tate Modern (London), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), Tramway (Glasgow), Fierce Festival (Birmingham), South London Gallery (London), Camden Arts Centre (London), Art Licks Weekend (London), Steirischer Herbst (Graz, AUT), Assembly (Portland, USA) and SA-UK SEASONS 2015 (Johannesburg, ZA).

Phoebe is currently working with Artsadmin on Influences

Other current initiatives include; Bedfellows a sex re-education project exploring desire, consent, representation and feminist porn, working with adults and young peoples groups reflecting and investigating current sex education and Ripped, a research project questioning the construction, manufacturing and perception of masculinity in South Wales.

She is currently a Social Practice Fellow on the British Council’s International Cultural Exchange US Program.