Phoebe Davies is an artist working across moving-image, photography, performance, print and sound. Her work is often shaped by collaborative models of working from different social and cultural sectors, including methodologies from athleticism, activism, speculative fiction and organic farming. Phoebe’s practice is formed by long-term fieldwork, regularly working with and in response to individuals, communities and locations. Through collaborating with intergenerational groups of performers and non-performers alike she generates work through performance to camera, freewriting and field recording. Her work habitually uses the lens, body and voice to explore the subtleties and tension of visceral human experiences and personal politics. Core to her process is an ongoing collaboration with the performer and choreographer Nandi Bhebhe, as Bhebhe&Davies they direct performance work spanning stage and screen.
Recent projects have led her to work with sex educators, secondary school students, care homes, sports teams and DJs as well as art spaces, research hubs and institutions, including g39 (Cardiff), Site Gallery (Sheffield), Heart of Glass (Merseyside), the Wellcome Collection (London), Praksis (Oslo, Norway) and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland, USA). Alongside her practice she currently facilitates Fieldwork, a rural residency and artist development programme.
Bedfellows / a radical sex re-education research project (2015-2019)
Art is Action / a UK-based social practice research group (2017-2020)
Synaptic Island / a London-based womxn and non-binary DJ collective (2017-current)
@phedavies / phedavies@gmail.com