Plaster and Dough Porn
Candace Davies
January 24 – February 4, 2012
About the Work:
Davies’ practice employs drawing, photography, film, sounds and smells, and aims to magnify the un-noticed beauty of the everyday. Often working with video and installation she strives to create romantic pockets of ordinary-sublime beauty. Plaster absolutely encompasses these ideas, hunting for the beauty in the ugly:
“The Alps fill the mind with an agreeable kind of horror”
Joseph Addison
With themes of humour and sensuality running through her work, Davies often places found soundtracks over her films. The inspiration for Dough Porn developed after stumbling across a hilariously 80s porn film in a second hand shop. After much audio layering and tweaking of the music, gasps and exclamations, combined with dough slapping on breadboard, it evolved into Dough Porn.
About Candace Davies:
Born in Wigan in 1987, Candace Rose Davies is an artist based in the north of England. She achieved a BA Hons degree in Fine Art at The Arts University College at Bournemouth in 2009 and has exhibited work in London and across the UK.
Recently returned from a placement in New York where she was the photography instructor at a summer camp, Davies is currently artist in residence at The Drumcroon Gallery in Wigan where, alongside her studio practice, she works as an Artist Educator delivering art workshops to children of all ages and abilities in schools.
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