Lot 114 - Angelina May Davis - Untitled

Gouache and pencil crayon on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Marta Marsicka

About
Angelina May Davis is a contemporary painter and member of Contemporary British Painting. Her paintings are fabrications, plundering imagery from childhood TV and art history. She is interested in what shapes us, using the transformative act of painting to reflect on history and culture as well as her own sense of belonging. She has been restoring the English Elm as depicted in remembered films, archival footage and English landscape painting as a metaphor for loss and longing, recalling a nostalgic and insincere past. Her paintings are claustrophobic worlds in which there is ambiguity, artifice, and the possibility of things just out of view.

Education
2020–2022
Turps Correspondence Course

1996–1998
MA in Fine Art University of Central England

1985–1988
BA Fine Art Coventry Polytechnic

Solo Exhibitions
2024
Model Village, United Reformed Church, Long Buckby

2022
PAL, Division of Labour, Salford, Manchester
Coming up for Air, Oxmarket Gallery Chichester

1993
Living on the Ceiling, MAC, Birmingham

1992
Behind Closed Doors, City Gallery, Leicester
Lanchester Gallery, Coventry Polytechnic

Group Exhibitions
2024
Stop the Chaos, Turn the Page, Paradise Works, Manchester
Librarian Services, Manchester Contemporary, Manchester
Cassart Finalists Exhibition, Copeland Gallery, London
Scrit, Terrace Gallery London
Jackson’s Shortlist Exhibition, Bankside, London
Assembly, Contemporary British Painting, Rye

2023
Leaf and Tree, Division of Labour, Salford, Manchester
Plein Air A site for resistance and remedial action, Pitt Studio, UOW
‘X’, Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary, Newcastle
Unnatural Women, Curated Rowena Easton, WIA Fair, Mall Galleries, London
New Worlds with Daisy Collingridge, DOL and TJ Boulting Art Brussels

2022
Catalyst, Turps Banana Painters, Oriel Canfas, Cardiff
Fare Share Fare, Whitworth Gallery Manchester
P U L P, Pitt Studio, The Art House Worcester

2021
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite Colchester
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery
Without Borders Touring Exhibition, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Ikon for Artists, Ikon Gallery Birmingham

2020
BEEP, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Hinterland 3, Birmingham Artspace, Medicine Gallery, Birmingham

2017
Elsewhere, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University

2017
Hinterland 2, Rugby Gallery

2016
Elsewhere, Rugby School
Bourne, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham

2015
Hinterland, Birmingham Art Space, Telsen Centre, Birmingham
Coventry Drawing Prize, Rugby School
Drawing Parallels, Eagle Works, Wolverhampton

1991
Secret Life of Objects, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Awards
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
Outstanding Water Colour Award, Jackson’s Art Prize, 2020

Gallery Representation
Division of Labour, Manchester, UK

Public Collections
Government Art Collection, London and Manchester UK
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Isaac Newton Collection, Cambridge University.

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Tattered ribbons hang from a bright upright tree, a TV set is on in the corner, and fragments of landscape are contained, framed and slide out of view in what is probably an artist's studio. Painting allows me to think about ideas simultaneously and constructed landscapes provide the settings for me to ruminate about history, pop culture, and my own sense of belonging.