Adam Holmes-Davies b. 1973, Croydon, UK. Lives London, UK.
Adam Holmes-Davies earned a BA (hons) from Surrey Institute of Art and Design in 1996. After spending several years traveling across Eastern Europe and North America, he enrolled at Chelsea College of Art and Design achieving an MA in Fine Art in 2006.
Adam Holmes-Davies makes abstract paintings that are developed through a lengthy process of layering and scraping paint away. Holmes-Davies is interested in how paintings are made when a painter has no implicit sense of place or tradition for themselves (to be referred to or continued) and how painting (verb and noun) carries decisions into a picture. Holmes-Davies work explores how narratives can be developed in an artwork that touch upon specific personal events while interweaving broader events and histories existing in the world.
Holmes-Davies has exhibited nationally and internationally and was selected by Michael Landy, Nigel Cooke and Curator Linda Norden for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2007. In 2012 he was the Painting Category Winner for the Salon Art Prize, London, UK and second prize-winner for the Barbican Arts Trust Open. Holmes-Davies has been the recipient of the Eaton fund in 2018 and awarded an Arts Council England, Developing your Creative Practice grant in 2020.