ANNA DAVIES
Anna is a Leeds (UK) based sculptor and kinetic artist whose sculptural practice exists as a record of highly personalised subjects and events. Each specific work explores a particular burden, or thought, experienced as a result of being a millennial woman, such as the need to respond to the shifting parameters of moral, sexual, ethical, or gender-related codes of behaviour. Sex, usually of a casual nature, is a strong recurrent theme in Anna's work. Her practice reflects the implications of overt sexuality in women's lives. Though young women often get labelled as crude or accused of over-sharing for discussing sex, Anna's work hopes to start conversations about sex that could de-stigmatise these topics. One strong influence on her practice is the conversations she has with others. Although her practice is very much autobiographical she focuses greatly on shared thoughts and experience, and the idea of unity through the trauma and ordeals, common in womanhood.
Eat Out or Get Out I
Eat Out or Get Out II
Home Being
An Act of Performance
Aren't you just exhausted by the same old shit?
Why get complicated? You know you wanna turn me on.
Eat Out or Get Out (2021) Armchair, fabrics, wool, resin, 220cm x 120cm, NFS
Home Being (2019) Found objects, motor, batteries, bricks, 90cm x 50cm, NFS
An Act of Performance (2019) Bricks, fabric, lightbulb, motor and batteries, dimensions variable, NFS
Aren't you just exhausted by the same old shit? (2019) Bricks, motor and batteries, aluminium, 100cm x 70cm, NFS
Why get complicated? You know you wanna turn me on. (2019) Found objects, foam and latex, linear actuator and batteries, plant, 110cm x 40cm, NFS