Tim Davies

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Kim Howells and Davies discuss the conceptual artist.

Presenter Kim Howells and artist Tim Davies view an exhibition of Davies's work at Oriel Mostyn. Davies, a representative at the 2011 Venice Bienalle, is a conceptual artist whose art is as much about the ideas behind the work as the images on the wall. His work is often about memory, the traces left by previous generations. One exhibit, called 'Figures in a Landscape' is made of dozens of framed old postcards from which the figures, the people in the photographs, have been removed. Tim Davies discusses this work with presenter Kim Howells - the ideas behind it and the contemporary questions touched upon in the work that concern identity, belonging, borders, asylum seekers, refugees, though he doesn't expect the audience to necessarily 'get' all this.
From: Framing Wales Episode 4
First Broadcast : 17 March 2011

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 9-11,11-14,14-16,16+

Subject : Art & Design

Topic : Mixed media, New media, Painting and drawing

Keywords : Tim Davies, Identity, Belonging, Conceptual art, Humanity,

Notes : Pupils could bring in a selection of postcards and discuss when and why we send postcards, and what are typical scenes on postcards. They could then decide on how they are going to alter their postcard(s) to create a different piece - they could cut part of it away, add something to it, overlay it, stick it to a larger piece of card/paper or extend it according to their own imagination. Ask pupils to research the Venice Bienalle and to look at images by Welsh artists who have been represented there. Pupils could write a short piece/poem about distant memory and the sense of belonging. For details on Davies' work and career, see Tim Davies.

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