Adam Holmes-Davies

Born Croydon, UK, 1973, currently lives and works London, UK. Adam Holmes-Davies works expresses an interest in painting as an intuitive act, its labour, duration and ability to express the human experience.
Holmes-Davies continuously applies layers of paint over many times in search of known and experienced subjects affected by everyday experiments and routines created within the studio. Influenced by emotional and personal histories Holmes-Davies uses the historical genres of portraiture and still life as entry points into the creation of he’s work.
Holmes-Davies received a MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2006 and was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2007, touring to The New Art Gallery Walsall, Rochelle School, London and Corner House, Manchester, UK. He has exhibited at Fold Gallery, London, UK in 2009 and Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK, 2011. In 2012 Holmes-Davies was the Painting Category Winner for the Salon Art Prize selected by Gavin Delahunty (Head of Exhibitions TATE Liverpool), Godfrey Worsdalem (Director, Baltic Centre for contemporary art), Anthony Spira (Director, Milton Keynes Gallery) and Susanna Brown (Curator, Photographs, V&A Museum).