TEGAN DAVIES

Work  



About Me



I’m a 23-year-old artist working across sculpture, painting, textiles and enamelling. My practice explores landscape, material and surface, often drawing from post-industrial environments and the traces left behind by human intervention. I’m interested in the tension within these spaces, between beauty and damage, permanence and erosion, and how materials can hold memory and history.

Much of the work is informed by my grandfather, who was a miner, and by growing up surrounded by landscapes shaped through extraction and labour. His history, alongside the physical remnants left within the landscape, continues to influence the way I think about material, process and place.

Working intuitively through making, I use texture, composition and form to explore ideas of excavation, fragmentation and transformation. Painting and Photography often operate alongside my sculptural practice as a way of testing colour relationships and spatial compositions that later feed back into three-dimensional work. Across different materials and processes, I’m drawn to methods that feel physical, experimental and responsive.

I completed a BA in Fine Art at the University of the West of England, where I first fell in love with ceramics and the physicality of making by hand. I’m currently completing an MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art, continuing to develop a material-led practice grounded in experimentation and process.
Archival Images of My Grandfather




Exhibitons

 Awards
Foundation Degree Graduate Show
Tregye, Cornwall, 
07/22


'Fuck, Marry, Kill'
Spike Island, Bristol, 
02/23


'Where Abouts?'
Spike Island, Bristol,
 11/22


'Spike Collective'
Spike Island, Bristol, 
04/23
'Sitting on the Fences'
Spike Island, Bristol, 
12/23


'Something Out of Nothing'
Spike Island, Bristol, 
10/24


'Veiled'
Bower Ashton, Bristol, 
12/24


'Showcase 2025'
Spike Island, Bristol, 
06/25
'Royal College of Art Summer Show'
Dyson Building, Howie Street, London 
06/26
First prize - The Annual Tin Prize
Supported by
The Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers of the City of London
08/26




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