Phoebe Davies is an artist and filmmaker based in south Wales and working internationally. Her work spans galleries, festivals, stage, screen, and public spaces.
Phoebe specialises in Performance for Camera, capturing physicality on film, choreography, vocal scores and scripts. She brings a distinct cinematic language to physical performance and emotional impact on screen, regularly working in collaboration with artists, choreographers and screenwriters. Her directorial approach is guided by her background in community organising and activism. Working with performers and non-performers alike to create films, performances and environments that explore personal, murky and audacious realms shaped by imagined, fictionalised and/or lived experiences.
Parallel to her practice, she has an ongoing collaboration the actor and choreographer Nandi Bhebhe. Together, as Bhebhe&Davies they direct performance works that span stage and screen.
Her work has been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally, including working with g39 (Cardiff), Site Gallery (Sheffield), Somerset House Studios (London), Trinity Laban (London), The Wellcome Collection (London), Live Collisions (IE), Aesthetica Film Festival (UK), CIRCAxDazed (UK, GER, AUS, KOR), Praksis (NO), Artes Mundi, Wales in Venice 10 (UK), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (USA), and British Council ZA Season (ZA).
Co-conspirators and touchstones include, Nandi Bhebhe, Kiera Blakey, Joseph Bond, Charlotte James, Colin McKean, Wet Mess, Harun Morrison, Rose Nordin, Tina Pasotra, Hannah Perry, Nancy May Roberts and Serafine1369.
Phoebe is currently the Artistic Associate of National Dance Company Wales.
Alongside her work as an artist and director, Phoebe supports artist led research, equity in the arts and fostering artist development, including:
Fieldwork Studio / a rural residency and research programme on the south Wales coast (2021 - ongoing)
Bedfellows / a radical sex re-education research project (2015-2019)
Art is Action / a UK-based social practice research group (2017-2020)
Synaptic Island / a London-based womxn and non-binary DJ collective (2017-2020)