Holly Davey
Lives and works in Cardiff, UK
Education
2014 University of Wales, Trinity St David. MA Contemporary Dialogues (Photography)
1998 Goldsmiths College, London. B.A. Hons. Fine Art.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 A Script for an Archive, Chapter, Cardiff, UK
2020 A Script for an Archive, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK
2018 The Conversation, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham Spa, UK
2017 The Conversation, g39, Cardiff, UK
2016 The Conversation, The Old Fire Station, Oxford, UK
2011 The Glittering, West Wales School of Art Gallery, Carmarthenshire, UK
2008 Lost from view, Mission Gallery, Swansea, UK
2007 A Third is You, St David's Hall, Cardiff, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Mostra, The British School at Rome, Italy
2018 Dialogues 5, The New Bridge Project, Newcastle. UK
2015 Cornucopia, Syson Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Here is Where We Meet, Bristol and Bath Weekender, Situations Commission, Bath, U
Fragments, Rathaus, Stuttgart, Germany
2013 If Only I Could Remember, Experimentica, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK
Lost In Transit, Part of Made In Roath Festival, Cardiff, UK
I Promise Not To Tell, LLAWN01, Llandudno, UK
For Common Differences, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, UK
2012 URRA Residency Exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
We Will Never Be As Young As We Are Now, NTW Offices, Cardiff, UK
Telegrams on the Table, World Financial Centre, New York
Arles Photography Festival, France
Fat Birds Don’t Cry, Netwerk, Aalst, Brussels
Performance Transition, The Exchange, Penzance, UK
2011 War Rooms, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK
AreWeNotDrawnOnwardToNewEra, Cardiff, UK
Ffilm 3, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK
2010 Tell it to the trees, Hereford, UK
For Mountain, Sea and Sand, National Theatre Wales Residency, Barmouth, UK
2009 En Residencia, Laboral, Gijon, Spain
The Golden Record, G39, Cardiff, UK
By appointment only, Mary St, Birmingham, UK
An Endless Supply film screening, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2008 Araf Artist Collective, Chapter, Cardiff, UK
The Golden Record, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Commissions
2022 A Script for an Archive: Women, Univeristy of Dundee, Dundee, UK
2016 Here Is Where We Came From, Plymouth Arts Centre and Plymouth Museum and Gallery, Plymouth, UK
There is No There There, A La Ronde, National Trust, Exeter, UK
The Thelma Hulbert Archive Project, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, UK
2015 Temperance Walk, Experimentica Festival Commission, Cardiff, UK
Here Is Where We Meet, Situations Commission, Bath and Bristol Weekender, Bath, UK
2014 The Nameless Grace, Co - commission by The Holburne Museum, Bath and University of Bath, UK
2013 Nothing Is What It Is Because Everything Is What It Isn’t, Colwinston Charitable Trust Commission, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK
2012 Letters from the Front, Meadow Arts, Hereford, UK
When I am no longer a memory, not even a name, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium
2011 We Speak Everywhere, Locws International, Swansea, UK
2010 The Glittering, For Mountain, Sea and Sand, National Theatre Wales, Barmouth, UK
Whatever happen to them all, Tell it to the trees, Meadow Arts, Hereford, UK
I told you so, Lightbox Commission, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK
2009 The Pool, commission by British Council for En Residencia, Laboral, Gijon, Spain
Awards and residencies
2021 Freelancer grant, Cardiff Council, UK
2019 British School at Rome, Creative Wales Fellowship, Rome, Italy
2018 Studio Residency, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2017 Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales, UK
2016 Production Award, Arts Council of Wales, UK
2015 Shortlisted for The British School at Rome Residency, Wales Fellowship, Rome, Italy
Ffotogallery GEDOK Residency, Stuttgart, Germany
The Interview Room Residency, The Old Police Station, London, UK
Development Grant, Arts Council of Wales, UK
2014 Venice Travel Award, Arts Council of Wales, UK
2012 URRA International Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Recipient of Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales, UK
2010 Shortlisted for Standpoint Residency, London, UK