Exhibitions

Dates: 27th November 2004–22nd January 2005

Kate Davis is interested in specific historical reference points, in artists and writers, which she responds to and reworks in her own distinct style. Her scrupulous pencil drawings overlap a range of images creating a weightless lyricism where 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. Reference points have included Brancusi, Hepworth, Picasso and Goya, with recent works utilising drawings and sculpture to create a three dimensional world complemented and completed by the addition of the viewer.

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. While serving as a committee member of Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery she exhibited in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, London, Vienna, Dundee and Buffalo. In 2003, she represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale and was selected for East International in Norwich. Recent exhibitions include ‘Flesh at War with Enigma’, Kunsthalle, Basel; ‘Country Grammar’ at GOMA and a forthcoming solo show in 2005 at The Breeder Projects, Athens.

There will be a commissioned text accompaniment to the show by Anke Kempkes, Curator at Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland.