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Partnership - The Telephone Project: On line 2024/2025 viewable late 2025

Partnership- The Telephone Project: On line 2020/2021

An international interconnected project developed during Covid-19 lockdown and international travel restrictions as a way of making, reinforcing and developing connectivity between artists across the world. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10222614677610838&set=p.10222614677610838

Logo of the Telephone Project , a collaborative art making project during the Covid 19 Pandemic

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Memorial: When I was younger: Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney Australia

For this installation at the former Blacktown Public School I worked with the voices and names of those who worked and were schooled in this building, the oldest surviving building in the Blacktown Central Business District. The art academic Elin Howe wrote in the concluding paragraph of her catalogue essay that ..

‘All of our official histories are under contemporary review and historians are realising that artists, with their focus on subjective experience in memory, are opening new paths to the reinterpretation of history. Davies’ practice is beneficial here because she does not succumb to two of the main pitfalls of this approach – flimsy research and the temptation to aestheticise the material by showcasing her own artistic skill. ‘