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Y GRÅ´P CYMREIG THE WELSH GROUP
David Morgan-Davies
 David Morgan-Davies |
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 Joining the Dots_walk1Analogue Photograph / Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, 40cm x 60cm |
 Rising to the SurfaceDigital Photograph / Aluminium Dibond direct print, 70cm x 105cm |
 Playing with timeDigital Documentation / Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, 40cm x 60cm |
 Life before colour #1Collage / High gloss Giclée prints behind UV Glass prints, 52cm x 52 cm |
 Sugar coated memoriesDigital Photograph / Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, 40cm x 60cm |
 TransmissionDigital Collage / Giclée print on dibond, 64cm x 95cm |
David uses analogue and digital photography to explore ideas about landscape and the environment. His work can loosely be divided into observational photography or ‘quiet photography’, and work with a more conceptual approach via abstraction, collage and the constructed image.
Since moving back to South Wales in the summer of 2019, David has been re-connecting with the area he left as a child. This process has driven the development of recent work which as well as referencing his own roots, documents the evolving landscapes of South Wales, reflecting on their sense of place and the role of photography in historical documentation.
Since completing an MA in Communication Media in 2006 and a one-year fellowship at the University of the West of England (UWE), David has exhibited throughout the UK. Further afield he was lead artist on an exchange program between Bristol and Hannover (2018/19) and part of Shutterhub’s ‘Post cards from Great Britain’ project in Haarlem, Netherlands (2020). Recent highlights in Wales include curating the ACW funded group show Hibernators|Gaeafgwsg in 2022 and in 2024 showing as part of the Inside/Out exhibition at Oriel Y bont, USW. David self-published his first photo book ‘joining the dots..’ in April 2025.
Born: Cardiff, Wales.
Lives: Abergavenny, Wales
Education:
2006-2007: Junior Fellow, Art Media & Design, UWE Bristol
2003-2006 : MA Communication Media (Interactive), UWE, Bristol
1981-1985: OND/HND Musical Instrument Technology, Guildhall University, London
Solo exhibitions:
2020: Another Surface, Gallery at Home, Usk
2013: Lost in Transition, Searchers contemporary, Bristol
2012: What you see is what you see, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
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Group Exhibitions
2025: Open exhibition, The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy
2024: Winter Open, Cardiff M.A.D.E
Narcissus in Bloom, Ffoto Cymru 2024, USW Cardiff
Black Swan Art Open 2024, Frome, Somerset
Inside/Out, Oriel Y Bont, University of South Wales Treforest
2023: Resilience, Cardiff M.A.D.E
2022: Winter Open, Cardiff MADE
Camaraderie, Gallery at Home, Usk
Hibernators, The Art Shop, Abergavenny (curator)
2021: OPEN 20/21, Shutter Hub, London
Oriel Lockdown, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2020: Sacred Space : two metre distancing, Walking the Land (online)
Postcards From Great Britain: Haarlem, Shutter Hub, Netherlands
Everyday Delight, Shutter Hub, Free Project Space, London
2019: Home is not a Place, Gallery at Home, Usk, S.Wales
Anderswo ist hier:Elsewhere is here, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol (lead artist)
2018: Elsewhere is here:Anderswo ist hier, Turba Gallery, Hannover, Germany
Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
2017: 165th Autumn Open, Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
Rising Film Screening, St John on Bethnal Green, London
2016: 164th Autumn Open, Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
Evolver Magazine Prize, Black Swan Arts, Frome
Utopia:Dystopia, FaB 2016, Bath
Of the Sea, Chatham Historic Dockyard
2015: A Day in Future Wales, Arad Goch, Aberystwyth (Ystrad|Strata)
163rd Autumn Open, RWA Bristol
The Plymouth Contemporary Open, Peninsula Arts Gallery
2014: 162nd Autumn Open, RWA Bristol
Shooting from the Hip, Centrespace gallery, Bristol
BV Studios Group Show, Sidcot Gallery, Sidcot Somerset
2013: W_CA Contemporary Landscape Photography, Worcester Gallery & Museum
161st Autumn Open, RWA Bristol
The National Eisteddfod, Denbigh, North Wales
2012: 160th Autumn Open, RWA Bristol
All at Sea, Pie Factory, Margate
New Visions II, The Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol
2011: Rural Idyll 2, Suffolk
Real Bath Art Prize, Fringe Arts Bath
2010: The Open, Motorcade/Flashparade, BV Studios, Bristol
Phone-ography, Photographique, Bristol
2009: Memory & Imagination, Glamorgan University Art Purchase Prize
Territory, The Otter Gallery, The University of Chichester
2008: ArtSway Open 08, ArtSway, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire
Through the Lens, RWA Bristol