Ivor Davies,MBE (born November 1935) is a Welsh artist. He currently lives and works inPenarth, and largely works using the Welsh language.^[2]

As a boy Davies went toPenarth County School. He studied atCardiff College of Art andSwansea College of Art between 1952 and 1957, and then from 1959 to 1961 studied at theUniversity of Lausanne in Switzerland. He then began teaching at theUniversity of Wales before moving on to theUniversity of Edinburgh, where he also completed a PhD on the Russian avant-garde.^[3] Davies finally retired from teaching at the Gwent College of Higher Education in 1988.^[2][4][5]

He was elected vice-president of theRoyal Cambrian Academy of Art in 1995^[4] and is a member ofThe Welsh Group.^[6] He was made anMBE in the 2007New Year Honours list.^[7] At the 2002National Eisteddfod of Wales he won theGold Medal for Fine Art.^[8][9][1]

Davies is passionate about theculture,language andpolitics of Wales, which inspire his artwork. For a number of years he has sponsored theIvor Davies Award atY Lle Celf (Art Space inWelsh), at theNational Eisteddfod of Wales, for an artwork "that conveys the spirit of activism in the struggle for language, culture and politics in Wales".^[10]

Davies' early works in the 1960s used explosives as an expression of society's destructive nature. Davies took part in theDestruction in Art Symposium in London in 1966.^[2][4][5] More recent work has included painting, installations; he has also designed and installed amosaic ofSaint David atWestminster Cathedral.^[11][12]

A major retrospective exhibition of his work from the 1940s onwards,Ivor Davies: Silent Explosion, opened atNational Museum Cardiff in 2015. This was the largest exhibition dedicated to the work of a single contemporary artist ever held in Wales.^[13]

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