Ivor Davies (artist)

For other people named Ivor Davies, see Ivor Davies (disambiguation).
Ivor Davies MBE
Born November 1935
Treharris
Nationality Welsh
Education Cardiff College of Art
Swansea College of Art
University of Lausanne
University of Edinburgh
Known for Painting / Multi-media / Conceptual / Mosaic
Awards Fine Art Gold Medal winner, National Eisteddfod of Wales
MBE
Vice President of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art
Elected

The Welsh Group[1]

Royal Cambrian Academy

Ivor Davies MBE is a Welsh speaking, Welsh artist born in Treharris, in November 1935. He currently lives and works in Penarth.[2]

As a boy Davies went to Penarth County School. He studied at Cardiff College of Art and Swansea College of Art between 1952 and 1957 and then from 1959 to 1961 he studied at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He then began teaching at the University of Wales before moving on to the University of Edinburgh where he also completed a PhD on the Russian avant-garde. Davies finally retired from teaching at the Gwent College of Higher Education in 1988[2][3] .[4]

He was elected Vice President of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in 1995[3] and is a member of The Welsh Group.[5][6] He was made an MBE in the 2007 New Year Honours list.[7] At the 2002 National Eisteddfod of Wales he won the Gold Medal for Fine Art.[8][9][1]


Art-work

Davies is passionate about Welsh culture, language and politics, which inspire his artwork. For a number of years he has sponsored the Ivor Davies Award at Lle Celf (Art Space in Welsh), at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, for an artwork "that conveys the spirit of activism in the struggle for language, culture and politics in Wales".[10]

Davies' early works in the 1960s used explosives as an expression of society's destructive nature. Davies took part in the Destruction in Art Symposium in London in 1966[2][3] .[4] More recent work has included painting, installations and he has also designed and installed a mosaic of Saint David at Westminster Cathedral.[11][12]

A major solo retrospective exhibition of his work from the 1960s-70s is scheduled to be shown at the National Museum Wales in 2014.[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Welsh Group - Ivor Davies". www.thewelshgroup-art.com. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Wales - Arts - Ivor Davies - Ivor Davies". BBC. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "The Royal Cambrian Academy - Ivor Davies". Rcaconwy.org. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Byd o Liw". S4C. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  5. ↑ http://www.thewelshgroup-art.com/#!ivor-davies/c23td
  6. ↑ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aXYySHER7x8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=50+Years+of+the+Welsh+Group.+Peter+Wakelin&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IF8vUcqiBoe50QWNxYDQCA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA[]
  7. ↑ "Knights Bachelor". BBC News. 28 December 2006. Retrieved 2015-01-02.
  8. ↑ "Ivor Davies to open Y Lle Celf at the Vale of Glamorgan Eisteddfod | News | 2012 | The National Eisteddfod of Wales". Eisteddfod.org.uk. 2012-08-11. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  9. ↑ "UK | Wales | Eisteddfod art turns political". BBC News. 2002-08-04. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  10. ↑ "Visual Arts Exhibition, Y Lle Celf at Blaenau Gwent". 15 October 2009. Retrieved 2015-01-02.
  11. ↑ Germaine Greer (2010-09-19). "Catholic art was once the domain of Titian. Now, we get Susan Boyle | Art and design". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  12. ↑ "CatholicHerald.co.uk » Pope to bless mosaic with holy water from Wales". catholicherald.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-01-02.
  13. ↑ "Ivor Davies MBE - Welsh Art - Ffin y Parc Gallery". Welsh Art. Retrieved 2012-12-26.

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