Kate Davis

The video And Shift 2021 is a staged re-enactment of the making of the original drawing for Negligé (Observations of Woman with Her Throat Cut) 1997. Negligé comprises of 36 drawings made whilst walking around Giacometti’s surrealist sculpture Woman with Her Throat Cut 1932 and is the first work in a series of pricked hole works that examine the portrayal of women by male sculptors. And Shift (Woman with Her Throat Cut) 2021 continues the series by revisiting this particular imagined act of violence against a woman with the resultant video and drawing as a response, my unsilenced scream. 

Kate Davis

Kate Davis trained in sculpture at Falmouth School of Art and the Slade. In 1986 she was the first female sculptor to be awarded the Stanley Picker Fellowship which led to becoming Whitechapel Gallery Young Artist of the Year in 1988. She was the Sargant Fellow, at the British School at Rome in 1998 and won the first Jerwood Drawing prize in 2001. Kate was made a Fellow at the Royal College of Art in 2007, where she teaches on the Sculpture Programme. Her collaborations with Scottish artist David Moore extend her studio by 393 miles along the East Coast Main Line connecting her time between London & Edinburgh.

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