Approved: 27.03.2014

emma davis

Artist, Editor, Film-maker, Maker, Researcher

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Approved: 27.03.2014

Emma studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (MA Fine Art), Chelsea College of Art and the University of York (MA Literature). She is a member of the Riverside Artist’s Group.  She has exhibited twice at the RA Summer Exhibition, regularly with the Derwent Art Prize, the ING Discerning Eye, and other national open submission competitions.  She is shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize 2022.  She is a returning Artist in Residence at the Atelier du Safranier in Antibes. France. 

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  • Location: london, London
 
 

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    Artist Statement

    Emma studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (MA Fine Art), Chelsea College of Art and the University of York (MA Literature). She is a member of the Riverside Artist’s Group.  She has exhibited twice at the RA Summer Exhibition, regularly with the Derwent Art Prize, the ING Discerning Eye, and other national open submission competitions.  She is shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize 2022.  She is a returning Artist in Residence at the Atelier du Safranier in Antibes. France. 

    https://www.emmadavisartist.com

    Her latest series of Fan Drawings relate to the idea of chance, mechanics, time, space, movement, and the meaning of marks.

    CV & Education

    education

     

     

     

    MA FINE ART with bursary

    SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART, UCL

    MA ENGLISH & RELATED LITERATURE

    UNIVERSITY OF YORK

     

     

    BA hons. ENGLISH LITERATURE 2:1

    UNIVERSITY OF YORK

    BA hons. FINE ART (p/t)

    CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON

    p/grad DIPLOMA fine art painting

    CENTRAL SCHOOL, LONDON

    advanced art direction draughting

    TERRY ACKLAND SNOW, PINEWOOD STUDIOS

     

     

    certificate perfectionnement 

    FRENCH LANGUAGE

    UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE, LYON, FRANCE

     

     

    solo exhibitions

     

     

     

    SOLO SHOW

    YORK ARTS CENTRE, YORK

     

     

    selected group exhibitions

     

     

    RCA SECRET Stewarts Law 2014

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON

     

     

    POST CARD FROM MY STUDIO 2013

    ACME PROJECT SPACE, London

     

     

    ARTWEST OPEN STUDIOS 2013

    Harrow Road Studios, London

    ART NW10 OPEN STUDIOS 2012, 2011, 2010

     

     

     

     

     

    NATIONAL ART OPEN 2013 - SHORTLISTED

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART; MINERVA THEATRE & PALLANT HOUSE, CHICHESTER; SCIENCE MUSEUM

    Judges Brian Sewell; Dr Barbara Rae, Michael Hoppen, David Middleton and James Green

    ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION 2013 - SHORTLISTED

    ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART, LONDON

    Selection by Anne Desmet, Peter Freeth, Richard Maccormac, John Maine, Humphrey Ocean, Mick Rooney, John Wragg

     

     

    DISCERNING EYE 2012

    MALL GALLERIES, LONDON, Selected Albert Irvin RA, Artist

    DISCERNING EYE 2010

    Selected Mark Rappolt, Critic

    DISCERNING EYE 2008

    Selected Barbara Fenton, Collector

    DISCERNING EYE 2007

    Selected Sarah Armstrong Jones, Artist

     

     

    GALLERY HIGHWAYMANS group show

    RISBY, BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK

     

     

    RCA SECRET 1999, 2005 – 2014

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON

     

     

    BOTANISTS OF THE ASPHALT II group show 2010

    CITY ARTS & MUSIC PROJECT, LONDON

     

     

    ORIGINALS 2008

    MALL GALLERIES, LONDON

     

     

    GALERIE AQUI SIAM BEN 2008

    VALLAURIS, FRANCE

     

     

    SOCIETY OF WOMEN ARTISTS 2005

    MALL GALLERIES, LONDON

     

     

    SLADE GRADUATE SHOW

    SLADE SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

     

     

    projects / awards

     

     

     

    ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

    2 MONTHS

    VALLAURIS, FRANCE

     

     

    selected publications

    BOOK COVERS

     

     

    Working in the Spaces of Power, Janet Newman

    Bloomsbury Publishing

     

     

    When Parents Die: Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent, Black & Abrahams, 2nd edition

    Routledge

     

     

    Japan’s Comfort Women, Tanaka

    Routledge

     

     

    selected film & theatre production design

     

     

    ROLANDO MEETS DON GIOVANNI

    documentary. Renegade Films

    COSTUME DESIGNER for the presenter

     

     

    ‘A PALACE FOR US’ - short film.  Serpentine Gallery.  dir. Tom Hunter

    PRODUCTION AND COSTUME DESIGNER

     

     

     

    ‘SINBAD’ - Sky series

    SET DECORATOR

     

     

    ‘SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL’ ITV series

    SET DECORATOR

     

     

    ‘KING LEAR’ - RSC film

    ART DIRECTOR

     

     

    ‘SOMERS TOWN’ - Tomboy films, feature

    SET DECORATOR

     

     

    PETER HALL SEASON 2005 Royal Theatre Bath, dir. Peter Hall

    ASSISTANT DESIGNER

     

     

    DIRTY PRETTY THINGS - feature

    ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR

     

     

    collections

     

     

     

    PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN THE UK AND ABROAD