Kate Davis

Run (3), 2006

Run (3), 2006

Born: 1977, New Zealand
Based: Glasgow
Represented by: Galerie Kamm, Berlin; Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

Born in New Zealand in 1977, Davis completed her BA Printmaking in 2000 and an MPhil in Art in Organisational Contexts in 2001 at Glasgow School of Art. Recent group exhibitions include De Appel, Amsterdam, Simon Lee, London, Tanya Bonakdar, New York and Wilkinson, London. In 2006 Davis had a solo show at the Kunsthalle, Basel and the following year was selected for Art Now, Tate, London. Recently she has exhibited at Galerie Kamm, Berlin and has been awarded a residency at Cove Park, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Davis is based in Glasgow where she is a part-time lecturer in the Painting and Printmaking Department of Glasgow School of Art.

Davis’ scrupulous pencil drawings and paintings exploit overlapping imagery to create a weightless lyricism. Visual similes and metaphors slide in and out of view, teasing the eye with incongruous metamorphoses of nature and culture, abstraction and representation, beauty and catastrophe.

Neil Mulholland