MICHAEL FRANCIS DAVIES PRBA, HonRBSA

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
Elected Governor of the Federation of British Artists – 2010 to 2016
Elected Vice President of Royal Society of British Artists – 2014
Established the RBA RISING STARS Exhibition for young artists – 2014
Elected President of the Royal Society of British Artists - 2019


Major Exhibitions:

• The British Print Show Originals x 5 - ‘Donating Artist & Chairman’s Award
• The Royal Academy Summer Show x 11
• The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol x 8
• The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition x 6 [Highly Commended]
• Royal Society of British Artists - The Dover Street Arts’ Club Award & The Keeper’s Purchase Prize]
• Battersea Fine Art Fair x 15
• The Discerning Eye x 4
• The National Football Museum, Preston
• The National Museum of Wales
• “Pure Gold” 200 years of the Federation of British Artists
• Guest artist at The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists

Commissions:

• All England Lawn Tennis Club – ‘Wimbledon Championship Artist 2008’
• Invited artist at Henley Royal Regatta

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
• The Lynn Painters-Stainers Prize – The Mall Galleries
• 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 Minster Gallery
• The M1 Gallery, Greenwich

'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

e-mail: mick.davies@virgin.net