Bio
Ellie Davies currently lives and works in London.
She gained an MA in Photography at London College of Communication. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and abroad.
She looks forward to her sixth solo show in the autumn of 2012 at The Richard Young Gallery, W8.
Davies’ work will also be showing at three international photo festivals in 2012; Arles Photo Festival in France, Noorderlicht in The Netherlands, and the Singapore International Photo Festival, with further touring exhibitions to follow in 2013. Also in late 2012 Open to Interpretation: Intimate Landscape exhibition tours Gordon Parks Gallery, St Paul, Minneapolis, and Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon.
Solo shows in 2011 included Come with Me – New Landscape by Ellie Davies at The Print House Gallery in London from 21st Oct – 27th Nov, Smoke and Mirrors: Solo Exhibition at 10GS, London, W1 from 12th May – 5th September, and Ellie Davies Solo Exhibition - Brucie Collections, Kiev, Ukraine from 16th March – 2nd May.
Recent group exhibitions include Forest Stories Exhibition on Chistoprudniy Boulevard, Moscow, Russia from 9th Aug – 9th Sept with Curator Irina Zhuravleva, Nine-Point Perspective: Ways of Seeing at Hotshoe Gallery, London, Symbiosis at Hoxton Art Gallery, London, and The Lens Culture International Exposure Awards: 31 Contemporary Photographers; this touring exhibition visited Paris, New York and San Francisco during 2011. Also, The Tallinn 15th Print Triennial at Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, and the Salon Photo Open 2011 at Matt Roberts Gallery, Vyner Street, London. In 2010 The Foto8 Summer Show at Host Gallery, London, The Exeter Contemporary Open 2010 at Phoenix Gallery in Exeter, Sight Unseen at Photofusion Gallery, London, and in 2009 The ArtSway Open 09 at ArtSway Gallery, New Forest, and The New York Photo Awards New Visionaries 09 in Brooklyn, New York.
Ellie has recently been awarded an Honourable Mention in the Professional Women Photographers International Juried Exhibition 2012, ArtSlant Showcase Juried Winner, Round 4. 2011, The Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2010, 1st Place in the Fine Art Landscape category of the 2010 PX3 Paris Photo Prize, The Exeter Phoenix 2010 Audience Choice Award, ArtSlant Showcase Juried Winner in 2010 and 2011, and Commended in the LPA Landscape Awards 2010. She has also been awarded The New Brewery Arts Open ‘Public Choice Award’ 2009, The Charmian Adams Award 2009, The International Photography Awards 2009 - Official Selection, and The New York Photo Awards 2008: Honourable Mention.
Her work has recently been featured in Fuzion Magazine, Photo+ Magazine – South Korea, Conscientious, Silvershotz, Lens Culture, Art Ukraine, Tree Magazine, Entitle Magazine, Urbanautica, F-Stop Magazine, Le Monde Magazine and The London Independent Photography Selected Artist Showcase. Recent books include WUD: Four Fictional Walks in the Woods, a limited edition Hardcover Photobook published by Tangerine Press, out Decemeber 2012. Also, Open To Interpretation: Intimate Landscapes – Published October 2012, and Behind the Image By Natasha Caruana and Anna Fox published March 2012.
Her work is held in private collections in the United Arab Emirates, the UK, the US, Central and Eastern Europe, South Korea and Russia.