About
Helen Emily Davy (b. 1996)
I am currently studying for a Masters in Art and Science at the Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, and am a graduate of the Fine Art Painting & Printmaking programme at the Glasgow School of Art.
I work in various media including, but not limited to, installation, printmaking, collage, stained glass, embroidery, and text. I often use archival evidence in order to examine how the body is seen and understood as well as power dynamics that surround it, and raise wider questions surrounding ideas of knowledge and perspective and subjectivity. My subjects have previously included Anatomical Venuses, early photography of hysteric patients, and my current research is focusing on nineteenth century and Fin de Siècle magic shows and early cinematographic special effects.
Vienna / Manchester
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Selected Exhibitions
Exploring the Nude: Contemporary British Artists consider the Human Form, the Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow (upcoming, postponed due to COVID-19)
June 2020, die Angewandte Festival, Vienna
Small Things That Hold, performance and installation
Fuzzy Speculations on Neighbourhood, participant
February 2020, Allsorts Artists Film Festival, the Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow
February 2020, Posthuman, Anatolia Schnitzel, Vienna
October 2019, Laundry Service, ArtScience, die Angewandte, Vienna
May 2019, Creative Reactions (as part of Pint of Science festival), The Unexpected Artist, St Enoch Centre, Glasgow
November 2018, Playzone, the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
June 2018, The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, Glasgow
April 2017, Series 3, the Glue Factory, Glasgow
December 2016, Intersections, the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
June 2016, 25% Extra, Lauriestion Arches, Glasgow
June 2016, Girls On Top, the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
May 2016, Let’s Limbo, SWG3, Glasgow
May 2016, PAT TESTED, the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
May 2015, Summer Show, City and Guilds of London Art School