HOTA Collects: Gerwyn Davies Artist Talk
Sat 12 Oct
HOTA Collects: Gerwyn Davies Artist Talk
Join us for this unique opportunity to hear Australian artist Gerwyn Davies talk about his practice and work. Using readymade and everyday materials, Gerwyn assembles characters through costume that simultaneously conceal, transform and abstract the body. These highly stylised and exaggerated transformations are regenerative as they form part of an ongoing inventory of photographic self-projections.
Gerwyn is represented in the HOTA Collection with some works included in Gallery 2 exhibition HOTA Collects: Direction.
Image credit: All images courtesy of the artist.
#Artist bio
Gerwyn Davies is a queer photographic artist and costume maker based in Sydney Australia. Gerwyn completed a PhD at the University of New South Wales (Art and Design) exploring the aesthetics of camp, photographic self-representation and the political potentials of queer in/visibility. Gerwyn completed a Bachelor of Photography (1st Class Hons) at the Queensland College of Art and has worked as member of academic staff lecturing across photomedia at Griffith University, University of New South Wales and the National Art School Sydney.
Gerwyn has received numerous prize awards including the 2023 Olive Cotton Award and the 2023 Clayton Utz Art Award and awarded funding from Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Queensland, NAVA and commissioned to create public works for Museum of Sydney, ArtBank/ the Qld Performing Arts Centre, Hermès, and Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building. Gerwyn was the recipient of the inaugural Australia Council residency at the Kyoto Arts Centre (Japan) in 2018. His work is held in public collections including the Museums of History NSW, Tweed Regional Gallery, HoTA, City of Sydney, Artbank, Museum of Brisbane, Redlands Art Gallery and the Queensland Centre for Photography/ Rockhampton Art Gallery and the Bundaberg Regional Gallery.
Recent solo exhibitions include SECCA (2024), Jan Murphy Gallery (2024) and the Museum of Sydney (2021) and recent group exhibitions include Hugo Michell Gallery (2020), Museum of Brisbane (2021) and RMIT (2019). Gerwyn’s work has been featured in the British Journal of Photography, Harper’s Bazaar, The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Art Guide Australia, Runway, Sturgeon Magazine, Plastik Magazine and Carnival. Gerwyn is represented by Jan Murphy Gallery Brisbane and Michael Reid Gallery Sydney/ Berlin.
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