‘Reaching’ shares new and recent work by Sophie Mackfall and Gwenan Davies. The work variously plays
Gwenan Davies is a painter based between London and Abergele. She has a BA from UWIC, Cardiff, and an MFA from Bard College, New York. She works in painting, drawing and writing, working diaristically to explore the ubiquitous everyday or mundane, its matter and its make-up.
Davies has exhibited within the UK and internationally, including at Paradise Projects, Philadelphia, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, Travelling Gallery, touring Scotland, Stoppenbach & Delestre, London and A-Place Gallery, Glasgow. Residencies have included Est-Nord-Est, Canada and UNIT(e), Cardiff.
Sophie Mackfall is a painter based in Birmingham. She has a BA in Painting from Glasgow School of Art and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London. Mackfall’s practice is concerned with the poetic potentiality of the edge, fold and line within an expanded painting practice.
Mackfall has exhibited within the UK and internationally, including ICA, London, Bluecoat, Liverpool, Whitechapel, London, Intermedia Gallery Glasgow, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. Residencies have included PADA, Portugal, Cove Park, Scotland and Arnis Residency, Germany.
