About Bronwyn Davies

Australian Contemporary Artist & Cultural Practitioner

Bronwyn Davies is an Australian contemporary artist and cultural practitioner with a focus on environmental art, place-based practice, and cultural development. She holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Arts from the University of Tasmania.

Her work is grounded in environmental art and place-based inquiry. Her practice moves between drawing, painting, stitched media, and writing—poetry, prose, and essays—to explore the layered relationships between people, landscape, memory, and ecological systems.

Working primarily with charcoal, acrylic, oils, and pencil, Bronwyn creates immersive works that respond to forests, waterways, and the subtle languages of the natural world. Writing is an integral part of her process: field notes, reflective essays, and poetic texts often accompany or inform her visual works, expanding them into multi-layered conversations about culture, history, and environmental change.

Her projects frequently consider landscapes as living archives—witnesses to human intervention, resilience, and deep time. Through both image and word, she seeks to create spaces for pause, attention, and renewed connection to place.

Alongside her studio practice, Bronwyn has over 16 years’ experience in cultural development and arts leadership, including senior roles in local government. She has led major initiatives in public art, artist residencies, cultural trails, and regional arts programming, and continues to facilitate workshops, residencies, and collaborative projects that support creative exchange and ecological awareness.

Her work bridges art, writing, environment, and community—guided by the belief that creative practice can shift how we see, how we listen, and how we care.

Exhibitions & Residencies

Bronwyn has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including:

• The Whisper in the Leaves (2025, Group)

• Maps and Traces (2025, Solo)

• Art for Takayna (2023 Group)

• Drawn from the Forest (2022, Solo)

• In Consideration of Trees (2021, Solo)

She has undertaken artist residencies at the Tarkine forests (Bob Brown Foundation Art for takayna), Tanks Art Centre (Cairns), Wild Mountains Environmental Education Centre (Rathdowney), Mount Barney Lodge, and Ahimsa in Lane Cove National Park. These residencies continue to inform her ongoing project If Trees Could Talk. Bronwyn was artist in resident a the Rural Doctors Association Queensland annual conference in 2024.

Creative Focus

Bronwyn’s work is guided by:

• Environmental and Place-Based Art – responding to landscape, ecology, and human interaction with place

• Cultural Development & Placemaking – supporting community engagement and arts-based storytelling

• Mixed Media Practice – exploring diverse techniques from charcoal and pencil to stitched and painted media

.Full exhibition and professional history

• Bronwyn’s CV can be downloaded Here

• Her Linked in Page can be accessed here.

• Link to interview with Andrew Wright at In Consideration of Trees exhibition Here

For exhibition inquiries, collaborations, or cultural project proposals, Bronwyn here