'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, 20201 min read
'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, 20208 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20192 min read
'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, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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, 20161 min read
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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