Kate Davis and David Moore MRSS

“Although we consider our core thinking to be centred in the discipline of sculpture, central to all the work is a sense of our physical bodies and events at the edge of consciousness that speak of those moments before and beyond language, and deal with primordial or transformed states of being. The work we make shifts between the media of drawing, sculpture, photography text and performative events.

We draw equally on philosophical concepts and emotional responses, to pay testament to human experience through a formalised, invented language.

 The work explores mortality, matters of the heart and notions of intimacy often playing on the relationship between measured and experienced time.

 Most works are made in response to a specific location or to a particular event and draw on personal experience, despite our constant attempts to avoid this. Hence there is a personal narrative running along the work’s under belly, which forms a shadow beneath a more open and speculative interpretation.

 It is a purposefully purposeless demand that we account for our being with some kind of testament to experience “

SHORT INDIVIDUAL BIOS;

KATE DAVIS

Kate Davis lives and works in London & Edinburgh. She is a senior tutor at the Royal College of Art in the Sculpture Department and was made a fellow in 2009. Davis has exhibited widely nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards, including the Sydney Water Sculpture Prize; the Jerwood Drawing 1st Prize; the Sargant Fellowship, British School at Rome and Young Artist of the Year, Whitechapel Gallery.

Her solo exhibitions and publications include Batteries and Giants, Whitechapel Gallery, come at Milch, London and Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall headhearthole at the Wordsworth Trust, As if at University of Essex, crossing-closing at Gallerie Gutleut, Frankfurt and Kate Davis at the Russian Club, London.

Group shows include,21 at Harewood House, Leeds and North/South Divine with Alison Wilding in WW Gallery London and Platfrom A , Middlesbrough. Her work can be seen in public and private collections including British Museum, Harewood House, Leeds, and Mima, Middlesborough.

DAVID MOORE

David Moore is Head of Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.

His work is held in private and public collections around the world including Japan, Switzerland, America, Macedonia and the Ukraine, He has undertaken residencies at the Beyler Foundation and at the Warteck PP in Basel, Switzerland. He organised BIAS (Bowness International Arts Symposium) the largest stone carving symposium in Scotland and contributed to other symposia such as the second International Iron Casting conference at the Seaward Johnson Atelier /International Sculpture Centre in New Jersey,USA.

In 2012 he was the invited artist to be in Out in the Open, a new publication about Public Art in West Lothian that looks at the many perspectives of commissioning, siting and making Public Art in Scotland.

Kate Davis & David Moore CV 2023

Kate Davis 37 Bonnington House,Killick Street, London N1 9BD & 13 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8HX. kate.davis@rca.ac.uk and headhearthole@gmail.com

David Moore, 77b Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh,EH10 4J

d.moore@ed.ac.uk

SOLO PROJECTS AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS INCLUDE:

2023 Night Bus to Monte Carlo, Cover Illustration. ISBN: 978-1-913144-37-1 Publ.Penniless Press Book launch and reading, Blackburn Cathedral.
Book of the Month (Nov) , Writer’s Litfest, World Book Day Award nomination.)

2022 Haus-A-Rest, Interview, Guest Artist
2020 Circling The Square Part 1 & 2, Berkeley Square, London,

A Grosvenor Britain & Ireland Public Commission with Modus Operandi
2019 A Day in the Life of A City Installation & durational performance Not Only The Biennale, Venice Biennale.

2017 Water & Light Commission, with Futurecity & St James Group, RIverlight , London 2015 Double Pelican StudioRCA, London
2014 Davis and Moore, Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Tower
2013 Art In Your Park University Park, Nottingham

2012 Patio Projects 11, Davis and Moore, WW Gallery, London All I have (poems & collage), La Joya,Los Gazquez, Spain

2010 Be-longing Langdon Park Station, Dockland Light Railway with Modus Operandi, Permanent commission.

2022 Temporal Matters, Sound works, Publ Asher Levitas
Summer Exhibition Royal Academy, London, Chosen by Alison Wilding 196th Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
A Woman’s Place is Everywhere LDN The Cello Factory, London

GROUP Exhibitions and Projects include:

2023 LOOKOUT COOKOUT Exhibition and Auction, Arthouse, Aldeburgh
LOOKOUT COOKOUT COOKBOOK, Publication Launch, Arthouse, Aldeburgh SUPAVENEZIA in conjunction with 59th Venice Biennale, A Plus A Gallery, Venice. 38th Annual Open Show Exhibition Southwark Park,Lake Gallery, London

Lapping Seams & Silver Linings Standpoint Gallery 2021 Visibly Evident Gortin, Photo Ireland Festival Project

WDWKA Bloc Projects Sheffield
Pause. Fervour: Reflections on a Pandemic, Journal of Visual Culture & Harun Farocki Institute Berlin

2019 Sculpture Petting Zoo Hockney Gallery, London
2018. Alive in the Universe Bermondsey Project Space, London & Aldeburgh Arts Festival 2017 Particular Conditions a millimetre02 project at Kingsgate Workshops, London
2016 Allied Antagonists, Newhailles House, Musselburgh, Scotland.

Creative Differences, Royal College of Art, Kensington, London. Drawing on Drawing, Sculpture Court, University of Edinburgh. Orphaned Thinking Part One, Provocative Publishing

2015 Death and Dying , Kunstraum, Artenne,Austria
Death and Dying, Danielle Arnaud, London Swedenborg Film Festival Re-launch Featured artists Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick. Scotland, Invited artists Drawing Biennale, Drawing Room, London.

de L’INTIME Kate Davis & David Moore et Raphaëlle PERIA. Espace En Cours,Paris 2014 Death and Dying, MAG3 Projektraum, Austria
2013 The Model, University of Edinburgh.

Constructed with Intention The Cornelius Foundation, France Art In Your Park, University Park, Nottingham
Open#29, CGP ,London

2012 Summer Exhibition Royal Academy, London. Invited artist of Alison Wilding RA. Metaflux Bronze exhibition, Royal College of Art
Postcards to Japan Iwate Museum of Art, Fukushima Museum of Art, Japan & touring.

You Are OK, NSDM Shipyard, Amsterdam

Gone Courting Sculpture Court, Edinburgh
2011 Swedenborg Short Film Festival, Swedenborg Institute, London ,Awarded Best Experimental Film.

TOHOKU-SCOTLAND Sculpture Court, Edinburgh Mrs Darling’s Kiss Arch 403, London
Fodo II, III, IV WAC, London

2010 Something Might Happen Forgotten Bar Gallery, Berlin Super8 – Media Festival Invited Artist, Arnolfini,Bristol Me-We Q1 Edinburgh

RESIDENCIES

2015 Double Pelican StudioRCA, Riverlight Quay, London
2014 Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Tower, Aldeburgh
2013 Constructed with Intention ,The Cornelius Foundation, France 2012 Arte + Ecologica,La Joya,Los Gazquez, Spain