Dr Gerwyn Davies

Gerwyn Davies is a queer artist working across photography, costume, textiles and video, while living and working on Gadigal and Yuin Country of Sydney and the South Coast. Davies is an Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (Art and Design) where he completed a PhD exploring the aesthetics of camp, photographic self-representation and the political potentials of queer in/visibility. Prior to this, Davies completed a Bachelor of Photography (1^st Class Hons) at the Queensland College of Art and a Bachelor of Creative Industries (QUT) and has worked as member of academic staff lecturing across photomedia at the University of New South Wales, Griffith University, and the National Art School Sydney.

Davies was awarded the 2023 Olive Cotton Award (finalist 2021 DC, 2019) and the 2023 Clayton Utz Art Award (finalist 2020, 2019, 2016), and has been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize (2025, 2023), the Bowness Prize (2025, 2023, 2019, 2017), the Sunshine Coast Art Prize (2025, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017), the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (2024, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014), the Alice Springs Art Prize (2020 HC, 2018), the Brisbane Portrait Prize (2024, 2019). Davies has completed commissioned works for Adobe, Hermès, and the Calile Hotel as well as public works for Museum of Sydney, ArtBank/ the Qld Performing Arts Centre, and Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building. Davies was the recipient of the inaugural Australia Council residency at the Kyoto Arts Centre (Japan) in 2018. His work is held in public collections including the Museums of History NSW, Tweed Regional Gallery, HoTA, City of Sydney, Artbank, Museum of Brisbane, Ipswich Art Gallery, Redlands Art Gallery and the Queensland Centre for Photography/ Rockhampton Art Gallery and the Bundaberg Regional Gallery.