Helen Emily Davy United Kingdom
Helen Emily Davy (b. 1996) is an artist from Manchester, UK. She is a graduate of the Fine Art - Painting and Printmaking BA(Hons) programme at the Glasgow School of Art, and the Art and Science MA programme at the Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna.
Helen Emily Davy works in a diverse range of media such as installation, printmaking, collage, stained glass, embroidery, and text, often incorporating archival material to examine questions related to subjectivity and the body. She directs her attention to the intersection of science, technology, and representation, excavating the power dynamics which shape their mutual interactions. Her past research and artistic work has dealt with topics such as Anatomical Venuses in relation the body as a gendered and performative spectacle, early photography of hysteric patients and the relations of truth and image, and the practice(s) of Spiritualism with regard to ideas of communication and consensus reality.
Davy’s practice is interdisciplinary and critically engaged. She has recently undertaken an exhibition-residency at the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ) which considered the exchange of artistic and ecological practices and their relations to ideas of the underground deep time. She is also in an ongoing collaboration with an Austrian artist based in Linz looking at their respective Jewish and Austrian family heritages and the restitution of stolen property, which was presented at the 2022 Zeitgeschichte-Tage in Braunau-am-Inn and is in preparation for a contextual exhibition in London in the summer of 2025.
