Curriculum Vitae
MICHAEL FRANCIS DAVIES, RBA
Born in Mountain Ash, South Wales, 12.6.47
Hornsey College of Art, B.A. - 1966-70
Camberwell College, M.A. Printmaking (Distinction) - 1992-95
Elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists – 2009
Governor of the Federation of British Artists - 2010
20010/11 Exhibitions:
• The British Print Show Originals [2005/06/07/08/10
2009 ‘Donating Artist & Chairman’s Award]
• The Royal Academy Summer Show
[1991/92/05/06/07/08/09/10/11]
• The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol [2006/08/09/11]
• The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition [2002/06/07/08/09/10 - 2008 Highly Commended]
• Royal Society of British Artists
[2002/04/07/08/09/10 -2011 The Dover Street Arts’ Club Award & The Keeper’s Purchase Prize]
• Battersea Fine Art Fair
[2005/06/07/08/09/10/11]
• The Discerning Eye [2002/03/05/09]
• The National Football Museum, Preston
• “Pure Gold” 200 years of the Federation of British Artists [2011]
Commissions:
o All England Lawn Tennis Club – ‘Wimbledon Championship Artist 2008’
o Invited artist at Henley Royal Regatta, 2011
Some Selected Group Shows:
• Cheltenham International Drawing Competition
• The Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters – The Mall Galleries
• The Chichester Open [Highly Commended]
• New English Art Club
• The Hunting Group
• Royal Academy Summer Show
• St. Davids Hall, Cardiff. (First Prize)
• Welsh National Eisteddfod, ( Highly Commended)
• South Bank Picture Show
• The London Group
• McClellan Galleries, Glasgow
• The Roy Miles Gallery
• Scobi International, Korea
• The Millfield Open ( First Prize)
• The Laing Landscape and Seascape Competition (Prizewinner)
• The Singer Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Comp.
• OneLove: The Football Art Prize – The Lowry, Manchester
• Book Art at the Barbican
• Lil Tschudi & the Continuing Linocut Tradition – Curwen Gallery
• The Pump House, Battersea
'One-Man' Shows:
• Herman Toelen Gallery, Antwerp
• Max Kehl Gallery, Zurich
Travelling Shows:
• The Travelling Arts Show, South Africa
• "Bilder vom Menschen" International Printmakers
• Travelling Exhibition, Germany
Born in Mountain Ash, South Wales, 12.6.47
Hornsey College of Art, B.A. - 1966-70
Camberwell College, M.A. Printmaking (Distinction) - 1992-95
Elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists – 2009
Governor of the Federation of British Artists - 2010
20010/11 Exhibitions:
• The British Print Show Originals [2005/06/07/08/10
2009 ‘Donating Artist & Chairman’s Award]
• The Royal Academy Summer Show
[1991/92/05/06/07/08/09/10/11]
• The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol [2006/08/09/11]
• The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition [2002/06/07/08/09/10 - 2008 Highly Commended]
• Royal Society of British Artists
[2002/04/07/08/09/10 -2011 The Dover Street Arts’ Club Award & The Keeper’s Purchase Prize]
• Battersea Fine Art Fair
[2005/06/07/08/09/10/11]
• The Discerning Eye [2002/03/05/09]
• The National Football Museum, Preston
• “Pure Gold” 200 years of the Federation of British Artists [2011]
Commissions:
o All England Lawn Tennis Club – ‘Wimbledon Championship Artist 2008’
o Invited artist at Henley Royal Regatta, 2011
Some Selected Group Shows:
• Cheltenham International Drawing Competition
• The Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters – The Mall Galleries
• The Chichester Open [Highly Commended]
• New English Art Club
• The Hunting Group
• Royal Academy Summer Show
• St. Davids Hall, Cardiff. (First Prize)
• Welsh National Eisteddfod, ( Highly Commended)
• South Bank Picture Show
• The London Group
• McClellan Galleries, Glasgow
• The Roy Miles Gallery
• Scobi International, Korea
• The Millfield Open ( First Prize)
• The Laing Landscape and Seascape Competition (Prizewinner)
• The Singer Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Comp.
• OneLove: The Football Art Prize – The Lowry, Manchester
• Book Art at the Barbican
• Lil Tschudi & the Continuing Linocut Tradition – Curwen Gallery
• The Pump House, Battersea
'One-Man' Shows:
• Herman Toelen Gallery, Antwerp
• Max Kehl Gallery, Zurich
Travelling Shows:
• The Travelling Arts Show, South Africa
• "Bilder vom Menschen" International Printmakers
• Travelling Exhibition, Germany