THE FACE'S JADE WICKES FEATURES STUDIO WEST'S EXHIBITION, 'BRYNLEY ODU DAVIES: ARTIST PORTRAITS'.
“The reason I find artists so interesting is because they create their own universes.” So says Brynley Odu Davies. The photographer has been on a three-year mission across the UK to capture artists in their studios, in the thick of their work, paint-splattered boiler suits and all. “These people are in a space of solitude, but photographing them while there helps to draw them out of it a bit.”
Since 2020 Davies has spent time with more than 200 artists around the country. He travelled from the south of England to the north coast of Scotland, determined to thoroughly document the best of Britain’s artistic talent. The result: a sprawling archive of Bright Young Things, from Elsa Rouy’s subversive takes on sex, motherhood and femininity to Trackie McLeod’s nostalgia-fuelled explorations of Scottish patriotism, via Christian Quin Newell’s sci-fi-esque canvases."
