Lydia Davies

Lydia graduated from BA (Hons) Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London in 2013, and was selected as an associate artist for the inaugural Associate Studio Programme in London from 2013-2016. In 2018, she completed a PgCert in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication at UAL in London, and holds a fellowship of the HEA. She was recently awarded the John Calcutt Prize for Critical Writing and has upcoming exhibitions in summer 2021 at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, The Deep End in Glasgow, and Castlefield Gallery in Manchester.

Lydia Davies (b.1991, UK) works across writing, voice, sound and moving image. Her practice draws on relational selfhood and the role of narrative in how we navigate and relay experience. Using autobiographical writing as a tool, her works probe the singularity of first-person narration by exploring how a sense of self is constructed through our relations to people, objects, minutiae, environments, and phenomenal experiences. Her works play with the ironic distances and temporal aberrations inherent in narrative, to agitate the idea of self-continuity. Her current research explores these ideas through topics including souvenirs, grief and voice, and their transformative potential for the self.