Contemporary landscape artist Beki Davies resides in the Northern Rivers region of Australia’s east coast, where she cultivates a sensitive and sophisticated painting, printmaking, and ceramics practice. Her work explores the complex connections and potential for symbiosis between people and place, speaking to our current Anthropocene Epoch with its changing and disappearing spaces. The natural environment is a frequent collaborator in Davies’ practice, with site-specific materials, elements, and processes routinely incorporated into her work. A two-time recipient of the Southern Cross University’s Kaske Prize, Davies also received the 2019 Southern Cross University Graduate Award on completion of her Bachelor of Art and Design degree. In the same year, she undertook a residency at The Picker’s Hut in Tasmania, resulting in a body of work that was selected as a finalist in the 2021 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize. Continuing to make impressive strides in her career, the artist is currently working towards an exhibition at the inaugural ART BYRON festival in October 2022.
Featured image: Beki Davies, Creek, 2021. Cyanotype, oils, ink, chinagraph pencil and polymer paint, 60 x 45cm. Photo: Mia Zapata. Courtesy: the artist.