PHILOMENA DAVIDSON DAVIS RWA
Date of Birth: 24 March, 1949
Place: London
Profession: Sculptor / Art Consultant
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Philomema Davidson Davis studied life modelling at the City & Guilds of London Art School and then following a travel scholarship in Europe paying particular attention to Greek sculpture she attended the Royal Academy Schools as a post graduate student.
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In 1973 she won the Royal Academy Schools Gold Medal for Sculpture and the Bronze Medal for the work from the figure. After spending three years in Japan studying Japanese Arts and language she set up a studio in London in 1979. She opened the Bronze Foundry in Milton Keynes and in 1984 became a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. She later went on to become that institutions first woman President in 1990, a post she held for six years. She became Director of Chelsea Harbour Sculpture 93 and in 1995 set up a trading subsidiary of the Royal Society of British Sculptors known as The Sculpture Company and became Managing Director.
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She has exhibited widely including the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibitions, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, Woodlands Gallery, Blackheath and at Chelsea Harbour 93. Her public works can be seen at Queens Court, Milton Keynes Shopping Centre and Lady Henry Somerset Memorial, Victoria Embankment Gardens, London.
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In writing on the influences which have surrounded her work in the RWA October 2000 Members Questionnaire she notes the effects of multidisciplinary factors:
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' I come from a background of music, dance, theatre and film. My work stems from the figurative but in recent years has become more surreal…I am intrigued by changes produced within the self by external influences that are strong enough to cause changes. Alterations in one's approach. I am currently working on a new body of work to do with music and sound.'
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