About
Bronwyn Davies is a practising artist and former arts administrator based on Tamborine Mountain in regional Queensland.
Her current work, art and poetry reflect her need to express her connection to place and her responses to being a female creative thinker in a world increasingly ruled by economic rationalism.
Bronwyn connects audiences with issues and things that matter.
Artworks, projects, places and events that celebrate excellence, creativity, connection and understanding.
Bronwyn’s work is thoughtful, layered, detailed and connected.
Brownyn has been described as;
the Lorax of Now
a powerful earth mother
an all-rounded unique and environmentally considered artist
community driven, just and creative
She has recently returned from a stint in the Tarkine forests of Tasmania as part of the Bob Brown Foundations Art for takayna part funded by Scenic Rim Regional Council RADF.
Recent exhibitions
She received her masters in contemporary arts from the University of Tasmania and worked for 16 years for the Scenic Rim Regional Council as an arts facilitator and cultural coordinator.
Prior to her work in local government she ran a world music venue, worked on her own arts practice, was an arts agent, festival director and cultural development worker.
She has overseen and creatively directed numerous events, festivals and complex cultural development projects including Cultural Trails and Open Studios of the Scenic Rim, Scenic Rim Model for Artists in Residence, Fires On Top of Mountains, ASSI 150 , War Stories and Our Town and Arts Ablaze Queensland Regional Arts Conference.
As an artist she works in charcoal, acrylic, oils, pencil, needle and thread to express her love for nature, concern for the planet, disenchantment with our society and joy in the power of the arts for transformation.
She began her arts journey in Sydney , where she hails from originally, where she would write poetry and draw constantly.
Her family life was disrupted at a young age by divorce, dislocation, disease and death. She struggled to make sense of the world she found herself in. She felt as a fish outside its bowl. Poetry and drawing became her way back to centre.
She worked for a time in an arts studio that produced corporate identity, graphic design and decided this was not a path for her.
In the 1980’s she moved to Northern NSW in the pursuit of a utopian existence but found that commune life tended to often be dystopian. She moved to Tamborine Mountain in 1991. This rainforest community became more that a place to live it became a family and a connection to something greater.
It is where she raised her three daughters and built a life.
Her Linked in Page can be accessed here.
Link to interview with Andrew Wright at In Consideration of Trees exhibition Here
Bronwyn’s CV can be downloaded Here
contact me here
Last Stand
Which Wolf Will You Feed