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Alexandra Davenport (she/her) is an artist and educator based in Birmingham, UK.
Her research-led practice considers the complex relationship between the body, knowledge, and representation. Signalling back to her history in dance, she uses choreography, photography, moving image and text to rethink conventional approaches to image-making. Increasingly, her work operates at the intersection of art and science – interweaving diverse forms of knowing through a lens of intersectional feminist discourse.
Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally, in group and solo exhibitions at institutions and festivals such as Derby QUAD (UK), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (DE), Museum of London (UK), Hanes Art Gallery (USA), Peckham 24 (UK), A Performance Affair (BG), Summerhall (UK) & The Nunnery Gallery (UK).
She studied BA (Hons) Photography at London College of Communication, MA Photography at Royal College of Art and PGCert Creative Education at University for the Creative Arts. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
News
February 2025
As part of my 24-25 residency for SMQB, i’ll be speaking on a panel with the other residency artists, entitled: When Art Meets Science: Exploring Art-Science Collaborations.
The talk is free to attend, and will take place online (via) on Wednesday 19th February 2025, 18:30-20:00 (link to follow).
October 2024
I’m showing some new work in ‘(un)common outcomes’ as part of the Peer Matters programme at Photoworks Weekender 2024. On Saturday 26th October, I’ll also be facilitating a round table discussion on the theme of ‘Persistent Stickiness’.
June 2024
I’ve been selected as the 24-25 Artist in Residence for SMQB. For the next 6 months, i’ll be working with Dr Paul Muhle-Karbe, Dr Jianbo Jiao and Dr Daniel Galvis on the research project: ‘ Using artificial neural networks to understand memory removal in human brains’.
February 2024
Plassein, In the Gap Between and Circuit Training (exercises in self-doubt) are now being showcased on Lucid (was PerformVu).