BARRIE J DAVIES: Born In Milford Haven Pembrokeshire Wales 1977

EDUCATION

2004 - University of Wales Institute Cardiff – MA Fine Art
2000 - Southampton Institute – BA Hons Fine Art (Time Based Media)
1997 - Carmarthen College of Art and Design – Foundation Course

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 – "PHOTOGRAPHS ON THE STAIRS" Q Gallery, Narberth, Wales
2006 – "THE BALLAD OF BARRIE J" G39, Cardiff, Wales
2005 – "MAY CONTAIN NUTS" Oriel I Bawb, Snowdon Mill, Porthmadog, Wales
2005 – "BARRIE J DAVIES IS AN ARTIST" Fold   more...Gallery, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England
2004 – "BLOW MY MONKEY" The Red Box Gallery, Ninian Road, Cardiff, Wales
2003 – "SERENDIPITY" The Circle Gallery, Muni Arts Centre, Pontypridd, Wales
2001 – "23 RPM" Haverfordwest Library Gallery, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
2000 – "CRIME SCENE" Project Milford, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales
1998 – "WORLDS MOST WANTED" Haverfordwest Community Centre, Pembrokeshire, Wales

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 – “NATIONAL ART COMPETITION” Angelus Gallery, Winchester, England
2007 – “BREAKPADS” THE Garej Artspace, Cardiff, Wales
2007 – “HAPPINESS” Oriel I Bawb, Snowdon Mill, Porthmadog, Wales
2007 – “PUNK” Galerie Lecocon, Hamberg, Germany
2007 – “PUNK” Ada Street Gallery, London, England
2007 – “SONIC ART EXPO” Plymouth, England
2007 – “ART IN IT” Muni Arts Centre, Pontypridd, Wales
2007 – “SOS Art Fair” Kings Road, Cardiff, Wales
2006 – “UNSAFE” Light House, Poole, England
2006 – “WHERE WERE @” Tactile Bosch Artspace, Cardiff, Wales
2006 – "SECRET" The Royal College of Art, London, England
2006 – "FRED" Fold Gallery and various locations in and around Cumbria, England
2006 – “EXHIBIT 27” The Museum of Temporary Art, Tubingen, Germany
2006 – "SURFACE" Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys, Wales
2006 – "UNDERCOVER” Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys, Wales
2006 – "WISH YOU WERE HERE!" Artshed, Ware, Herts, England
2005 – "MULTIPLEX 4" The Old Cinema Art Space, Hoxton, London, England
2005 – "SLICE 3" Chapter Art Gallery, Cardiff, Wales (curated by Alan Baynes and Andy Fung)
2005 – "MULTIPLEX 3" The Old Cinema Art Space, Hoxton, London, England
2005 – "SECRET" The Royal College of Art, London, England
2005 – "THE WELSH CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR 2005" Oriel I Bawb, Porthmadog, Wales,
2005 – "MOBILE" Arena Gallery, Liverpool, England
2005 – "SUPER 8 STATION 2" Station Art space, Bristol, England
2005 – “OBSESSION” GALERI X, Istanbul, Turkey
2005 – "STATES OF UNION ?" Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2004 – "THE POST CARD SHOW" The Surface Gallery, Nottingham, England
2004 – "SLICE 2" Tactile Bosch Artspace, Llandaff North, Cardiff, Wales
2004 – "SECRET" The Royal College of Art, London, England
2004 – "FLIM – FLAM" G39, Mill lane, Cardiff, Wales (Curated by Anthony Shapland)
2004 – "PERFECTLY NORMAL" Tactile Bosch Artspace, Cardiff, Wales
2003 – "SECRET" The Royal College of Art, London, England
2003 – "SLICE" Jacobs Market Art Space, Cardiff, Wales
2003 – "DRAWING, THE END OF THE LINE" Ecole Municipale de Dessin, Saint-lo, France
2003 – "CAERLEON ARTS FAIR" Artavia Gallery, Caerleon, Wales
2002 – "ART IN THE MARKET" Newport market Gallery, Newport, Wales
2002 – "SUMMER" Brooklyn Art Gallery, Cardiff Wales
2001 – "CHRISTMAS" InkSpot Arts and Crafts Centre Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
2000 – "ANONYMOUS" Southampton Institute Fine Art Degree show, Southampton, England
1998 – "ALCHEMY" St Mary’s Market, Southampton, England

SELECTED PERFORMANCES, EVENTS, HAPPENINGS AND PROJECTS

2008 – “STUFF” An fanzine artwork comic book
2007 – “SUBESQUE” Performance and video presentation for publication at Cardiff Bay.
2007 – “THE URBAN IMPROVEMENT PROJECT” a series of public temporary works in Wales aimed at improving the urban spaces with subtle interventions which have been documented..
2006 – “THE BARRIE J DAVIES ULTIMATE CRAP MUSIC ALBUM” a challenging music album of son  less

Who is the Hell is Barrie J Davies?

Barrie J Davies was born in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1977. He has graduated from Southampton institute with a fine art degree in 2000 and completed his masters Degree in 2004. Barrie J Davies’ artwork has taken many forms such as painting, drawing, sculpture, print making, installation, mail art, video, film, performance artwork, events, music, internet artwork and other conceptually designed products such as T – Shirts, badges, golf balls, mouse   more...mats and baseball caps.
His first solo exhibition called “worlds most wanted” which was in a community centre in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire in 1998 which Barrie hired out for the small fee of thirty five pounds. This contained some his early work and had a grand attendance of 12 people.
His work has explored mobile phone technology in 2005 for an exhibition in Liverpool at the arena gallery, in which Barrie created the world’s longest cup and string telephone and tested it out on the streets of Liverpool, after which it was installed in the gallery.
He has shown in an exhibition in 2005 the most boring video ever in Istanbul, Turkey in which for video the word “boring” lasts for eight and half minutes.
Also to explore the idea of something and nothingness, he has also founded in 2004 the world’s first “museum of nothingness” in a briefcase in which he invites the public to send him object(s) that they think represent the idea of nothing or nothingness. The museum of nothingness is also an ongoing work.
His fun colourful painting work contain word and text jokes, riddles and secret messages of fun, humour and irony set to entertain and baffle the viewer to explore possible new truths and fake realities.
His cheap bic biro on paper drawings are a joy to look at and are fast and hasty grabbing a funny idea in putting it down in the fast whit of a stand up comedian.
He has organised an art pub crawl in 2005 called "on the piss" designed as a focus for getting people together to talk about art and ideas while going out for a night around the pubs in Cardiff. Documentation of this event was posted on his website and for the people that came along they were each given a limited edition badge which said "on the piss with Barrie J Davies".
For an exhibition in 2005 in a gallery in Hoxton in London Barrie set to meet everyone who came to the exhibition that he was part of. He did this in a performance art way by shaking hands of everyone who came in while holding a sign which said the hello on it and he also gave them a badge which read ”I met the artist Barrie J Davies an he gave me this badge”. This act of saying Hello lasted until the limited edition of one hundred badges which he was giving out ran out.
Another one of his projects was to introduce the "Unlimited Print" which is an unlimited edition, ink on A4 paper print (2004), which is available to download free from his website as a word document.
Barrie has also curated his own exhibitions the first which was held in 2005 in the bathroom of his flat called “all washed up” which consisted of selected artists from Wales and England. The second exhibition in 2006 which Barrie has curated was called “The couch trip”. This exhibition was purely video and film art. This exhibition happened again in his flat in which video art was shown on his domestic television set in his living room. This exhibition had a lot of response from all over Europe, London, Birmingham, Neath and Cumbria.
One his recent projects of the artist Barrie J Davies have involved “The Barrie J Davies Ultimate Crap Music Album”. This limited edition signed album is sonic art equivalent of his visual and performance based artwork. This album he has exhibited in an exhibition in Poole in Dorset called “unsafe” in 2006 and sold on eBay to help fund his other art projects. This album was made a quickly as possible on a home computer and is released on Barrie’s own home tape recordings label.
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