honorable mention
Ellie Davies united kingdom
title
Fires, 2018
With deeply symbolic narratives spanning the human and natural world, it brings together the opposing themes of life and death, creation and destruction, love and loss, nature versus culture, and numerous other mythologies and meanings that we ascribe to it.
The small fires present in these images cast the forest in a warm light, holding back the dark, bringing a sense of safety and comfort not only transforming the forest but temporarily altering it. A man-made fire however must be built and lit, tended and fed. Its mere presence implies the existence of people, and the human narrative remains despite their absence. The viewer is left to weave their own experience into the woodland, invited to enter, to sit down, to be silent and still; to become a part of the wood and for a time to find a place within it.
Her work has been extensively exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including recent solo shows in 2018 at A.galerie Brussels and Patricia Armocida Gallery in Milan, and has been featured in publications by Little Toller, Chelsea Green, Les Editions Ulmer Paris, Tangerine Press and Thames and Hudson. Recent interviews include National Geographic, The Guardian, Huffington Post, BBC Radio 3, and Aesthetica Magazine.
Davies recently launched her newest series ‘Fires, 2018’. Fires 2 has been selected Winner of the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2018: Nature, Environment and Perspectives. The Fires series was also voted Winner of the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Professional Landscapes and Seascapes category and the 12th Pollux Awards: Professional Fine Art Series Winner. There will be an Award Winner’s Exhibition for both competitions at Galerie Valid Foto in Barclona in early May 2019.
The Fires series is featured in Dodho Magazine Issue 7 and Rakes Progress, Issue 10 (forthcoming).
In 2018 Davies’ had solo exhibitions at A.galerie Brussels and Patricia Armocida Gallery in Milan. Her work was exhibited for the first time in India at Gallery 1AQ in New Delhi as part of India Arch Dialogue 2018: Moments in Architecture. Other solo exhibitions include Into the Woods at The Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre in Northern Ireland in 2017 and at Crane Kalman Gallery in London in 2016.
Davies’ work is held in private collections in the UK, the US, Central and Eastern Europe, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia and The United Arab Emirates. Recent publications include Le Magiciennes de la Terre: L’art et la Nature au Feminin by Virginie Luc and Arboreal, A Collection of New Woodland Writing.
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entry description
Fire, not only a common thread that unites humanity but a universal continuity linking modern man to the earliest inhabitants of Britain's woods and forests.With deeply symbolic narratives spanning the human and natural world, it brings together the opposing themes of life and death, creation and destruction, love and loss, nature versus culture, and numerous other mythologies and meanings that we ascribe to it.
The small fires present in these images cast the forest in a warm light, holding back the dark, bringing a sense of safety and comfort not only transforming the forest but temporarily altering it. A man-made fire however must be built and lit, tended and fed. Its mere presence implies the existence of people, and the human narrative remains despite their absence. The viewer is left to weave their own experience into the woodland, invited to enter, to sit down, to be silent and still; to become a part of the wood and for a time to find a place within it.
about the photographer
Ellie Davies (Born 1976) lives in Dorset and works in the forests of Southern England. Her MA in Photography is from London College of Communication, 2008.Her work has been extensively exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including recent solo shows in 2018 at A.galerie Brussels and Patricia Armocida Gallery in Milan, and has been featured in publications by Little Toller, Chelsea Green, Les Editions Ulmer Paris, Tangerine Press and Thames and Hudson. Recent interviews include National Geographic, The Guardian, Huffington Post, BBC Radio 3, and Aesthetica Magazine.
Davies recently launched her newest series ‘Fires, 2018’. Fires 2 has been selected Winner of the Urbanautica Institute Awards 2018: Nature, Environment and Perspectives. The Fires series was also voted Winner of the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Professional Landscapes and Seascapes category and the 12th Pollux Awards: Professional Fine Art Series Winner. There will be an Award Winner’s Exhibition for both competitions at Galerie Valid Foto in Barclona in early May 2019.
The Fires series is featured in Dodho Magazine Issue 7 and Rakes Progress, Issue 10 (forthcoming).
In 2018 Davies’ had solo exhibitions at A.galerie Brussels and Patricia Armocida Gallery in Milan. Her work was exhibited for the first time in India at Gallery 1AQ in New Delhi as part of India Arch Dialogue 2018: Moments in Architecture. Other solo exhibitions include Into the Woods at The Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre in Northern Ireland in 2017 and at Crane Kalman Gallery in London in 2016.
Davies’ work is held in private collections in the UK, the US, Central and Eastern Europe, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia and The United Arab Emirates. Recent publications include Le Magiciennes de la Terre: L’art et la Nature au Feminin by Virginie Luc and Arboreal, A Collection of New Woodland Writing.
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