Archive
Oriel Davies is developing this archive as a resource for those researching both visual arts and arts education. Divided into exhibitions, projects and Test Bed the archive is searchable using the search bar below or by browsing through the archive pages.
Interloper
Dawn Woolley
'Interloper' examines the act of looking and being looked at - a central theme in Woolley’s work. A photographic double replaces the artist, so that subject becomes object, forcing the viewer to question this boundary from a voyeuristic position. more >
Test Bed 2010 26 June - 18 August
Oriel Davies Open 2010
RE:animate
'RE:animate' is the fourth Oriel Davies Gallery biennial Open exhibition. Submissions were sought which explored animation in its broadest sense. Work selected deals with the actuation of movement, the possibilities of non-narrative structure and the potential of audience participation. more >
Exhibition 2010 26 June - 18 August
The Modes of Al-Ikseer
Harminder Singh Judge
'The Modes of Al-Ikseer' is a live performance installation which fuses contemporary pop culture, the aesthetics of advertising, tongue-in-cheek humour and epic symbolic imagery. It observes and locates the place of ancient religious symbolism and mythology within a world obsessed with capitalism, the celebrity and marketing gimmicks. more >
Exhibition 2010 18 June
Fantasy is a Place Where it Rains
Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes
Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes work both individually and collaboratively in response to the environment to develop and enhance our awareness of it. Their placement of poetic gestures encourage the viewer to reassess their habitual relationship with familiar environmental elements. more >
Test Bed 2010 17 April - 09 June
Field Work
Dave Lewis
'Field Work' is a new body of artwork inspired by the idea of the artist as a ‘stranger’. Lewis has explored the New Forest in Hampshire and Newtown in mid Wales, linked by their rural locations and also by their cultural differences to Lewis’ hometown of London. more >
Exhibition 2010 17 April - 09 June
