ARTWORK LOCATION: IGNITE STUDIOS, 60 Crane Street Ballina 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:

Beki Davies is a contemporary Landscape painter, muralist, printmaker and ceramicist with a multi-disciplinary practice that explores the complex connections formed between People and Place. Site-specific works focus on the symbiosis that occurs when Human and Landscape meet. Her pieces collaborate directly with the landscape, utilizing materials and processes found within the site to imbue the work with a sense of place. Her practice is a meditation on the dynamic process of change, examining the liminal zone between existing landscapes and disappearing spaces.

SELECTED ARTWORKS: 

Spinifex, 2020 - This piece was created as part of a larger body of work titled “Latitudes of Salt and Sky” and was exhibited at Lismore Regional Gallery. The exhibition was an exploration of the headland and coastline of my childhood home and aimed to invoke feelings of ghostly nostalgia for a time and place that could never be revisited. The work was made using a photographic medium called cyanotype that was exposed and fixed using the sunlight and seawater of the site; to capture the essence of the place in the work.

Untitled (Aka: As the Tide Recedes the Water Moves Away from the Shore), 2023 - This is a part of a new body of work that is an investigation into the cycle of tides. It was made in response to an experience had during the big flood where the division of land and water became suddenly inseparable. This inundation and eventual retreat of the waterline drew parallels of the cyclic nature of water and its duality of bother life giver, and destroyer.

Untitled V (Aka: The Dark Tide), 2023 - This work is looking at our anthropogenic influence on the rising sea levels. It has a sense of urgency and inevitably, it is both a requiem and a battle cry. The deep indigo hues echo the breathless feeling as we all stand witness to the slow march of the rising tide.