CURRICULUM VITÆ

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