Penny Davis

Penny Davis is a contemporary artist, art educator and academic researcher with an extensive track record of exhibitions and teaching across secondary, further and higher education sectors. Holding a PGCE, a 1st class degree from UAL, an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), and a practice-based PhD from Loughborough University (IRPH) Davis has also attended numerous residency programmes including Skowhegan School of Art (USA) and the Edward Albee Foundation residency (USA). Her practice began in sculpture but most recently she works in expanded drawing and performance practices exploring themes of motherhood and maternal identity. Her doctoral research investigates the intersections of visual culture, autoethnographic strategies, and somatic methodologies within an expanded drawing practice, exploring how large-scale kinetic mark-making maps socio-political narratives of domestic spaces, labor, and care.