'A Mother's Love's Labour's Lost'
You are warmly invited to attend a drawing performance at Loughborough University Creative Arts on Tuesday 3rd March from 11am - 1pm. The...
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Penny Davis
- Feb 11, 2020
- 1 min
'Large Lego Drawing'
This work took a long time to evolve from when I first had the idea. I started working on it in 2016 when I was living in Leicester. I...
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Penny Davis
- Feb 6, 2020
- 8 min
Stuck in the mud or the potentiality of polyamarous maternality
This month I attended a talk and workshop with artist Florence Peake at LU Arts. Having looked at her work on her website beforehand I...
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Penny Davis
- Jan 30, 2020
- 5 min
Anna Maria Maiolino at Whitechapel Gallery
Anna Maria Maiolino became a mother at age 22 which seems very young now in comparison to my own inception into motherhood at the age of...
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Penny Davis
- Dec 9, 2019
- 2 min
'Holding their hands'
I decided to take a phenomenological approach to drawing my maternal experience and in trying to locate a minute where I could draw us...
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Penny Davis
- Nov 28, 2019
- 1 min
What are the ethics of using images of your children in your art?
I'm feeling a little sad today as my children have requested some of their pictures connected to my art practice be removed from my...
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Penny Davis
- Nov 28, 2019
- 1 min
Key text for research
I am currently reading 'Maternal Encounters The Ethics of Interruption' by Lisa Baraitser. I will be writing an essay on the importance...
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Penny Davis
- Nov 28, 2019
- 3 min
Research proposal 27.11.19
Beginning to create a dialogical visual relationship between Lego and crochet Summary of research My research is a practice-based...
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Penny Davis
- Jan 8, 2017
- 1 min
Painting on foam to be developed into new sculptures...
Started painting onto thin foam sheet to be worked into sculpture...stepping into the unknown with new processes...
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Penny Davis
- Nov 14, 2016
- 1 min
Working towards the opening party at studioname next week
Some more images of new work. A new 7-8am painting and reworking a sculpture from last year for next week's opening. This painting is all...
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Penny Davis
- Sep 29, 2016
- 1 min
7 - 8 am painting #2
I hope to have a series of 10 of these completed in a few weeks. I plan to upload these up to the website soon. I hope to exhibit them...
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Penny Davis
- Sep 23, 2016
- 1 min
crocheted steel rope sculptural tests
This test is done with 0.5mm steel rope. I was trying to make a mobius strip. When I increased in size to 3mm steel rope it became a...
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Penny Davis
- Sep 22, 2016
- 1 min
New lego knot drawing
I made this lego knot drawing using a frottage technique over pieces of lego attached to a board using graphite. The loops and swirls are...
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Penny Davis
- Sep 19, 2016
- 1 min
tests and experiments
With only 2 hours in the studio I still managed to get a drawing done in my sketchbook and to do a test cast with margarine and jesmonite...
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Penny Davis
- Sep 17, 2016
- 1 min
Studio - first 7am-8am paintings
Yesterday was the first day in my new studio at studioname Leicester. I started on a new project 7am-8am drawings in which I made...
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