Phoebe Davies
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NEWS:
I’m currently working in partnership with South London Gallery collaborating on a series of new works with Life For Girls, a young women’s group in South East London.
Check back soon for new works and events……
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MIRROR MESSAGES.
Intervention in public toilets. London 2011 (ongoing)
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OTHER
Phoebe Davies
An Interruption, Hackney Bridge Academy, DARTER, 2011
Still from performance during school staff briefing where staff performed to a set
of instructions.
DARTER is Chloe Cooper, Louisa Martin and Phoebe Davies. DARTER make art in response to particular social contexts. With a predominantly ‘live’ or performative approach, DARTER’s work aims to playfully interrupt established social spaces and codes that shape or frame how we perceive an event, interaction or architectural space. Working with and responding to contexts such as a school or a specific audience, DARTER appropriate and subvert behavioural norms, documentary media and the tools of academia in order to communicate their ideas.
DARTER were Whitechapel Gallery Artists in Residence at the Bridge Academy School in Hackney for the academic year 2010-2011.
Artist in Residence. DARTER.
16 December 2011 – 26 February 2012
Whitechapel Gallery,
(DARTER: Gallery 5, Shiraz Bayjoo: Gallery 6)
DARTER were formerly known as Junto:Projects.
Phoebe Davies’ work is defined by its situation and contexts, exploring the social codes and behavioural responses that shape an event, public space or constructed scenario. She generates work through instruction, live interaction and text, which may be initiated by an individual or group but completed or extended by others. Her work is often ephemeral and chanced upon existing primarily in pedestrian spaces in addition to galleries and institutions.
Phoebe Davies is one third of DARTER, an artist group who make art in response to particular social contexts. With a predominantly live or performative approach, DARTER's work aims to playfully interrupt established social codes and conventions that shape or frame how we perceive an event, interaction or architectural space.
