Penny DavisFeb 261 min'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 performance titled ...
Penny DavisFeb 111 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 began to draw using a ...
Penny DavisFeb 68 minStuck in the mud or the potentiality of polyamarous maternalityThis month I attended a talk and workshop with artist Florence Peake at LU Arts. Having looked at her work on her website beforehand I was struck by how the ...
Penny DavisJan 305 minAnna Maria Maiolino at Whitechapel GalleryAnna 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 30. I try to imagine...
Penny DavisDec 9, 20192 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 being together, I foun...
Penny DavisNov 28, 20191 minWhat 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 social media. Of course I...
Penny DavisNov 28, 20191 minKey text for researchI am currently reading 'Maternal Encounters The Ethics of Interruption' by Lisa Baraitser. I will be writing an essay on the importance of this book in my re...
Penny DavisNov 28, 20193 minResearch proposal 27.11.19Beginning to create a dialogical visual relationship between Lego and crochet Summary of research My research is a practice-based investigation into how the ...
Penny DavisJan 8, 20171 minPainting 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...
Penny DavisNov 14, 20161 minWorking towards the opening party at studioname next weekSome 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 about Inigo and Ish...
Penny DavisSep 29, 20161 min7 - 8 am painting #2I 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 with the sound recordi...
Penny DavisSep 23, 20161 mincrocheted steel rope sculptural testsThis 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 physical battle with a l...
Penny DavisSep 22, 20161 minNew lego knot drawingI made this lego knot drawing using a frottage technique over pieces of lego attached to a board using graphite. The loops and swirls are then added using in...
Penny DavisSep 19, 20161 mintests and experimentsWith 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 for some larger pro...
Penny DavisSep 17, 20161 minStudio - first 7am-8am paintingsYesterday was the first day in my new studio at studioname Leicester. I started on a new project 7am-8am drawings in which I made paintings using watercolour...
Penny DavisSep 17, 20162 minArtist Residence in Motherhood Day 1Today is the first day of my artist residence in Motherhood. After I signed up with Lenka Clayton at ARIM I now feel I am officially doing what I have wante...