About

Lydia Davies is an artist and writer based in Glasgow, working across moving image, sound, performance and bookmaking. Lydia is preoccupied with interpersonal dynamics, bodily gestures, and the shifting registers of voice and narration. Her work draws attention to the ways in which selves are both sustained and undone through their relations.

Her writing and artist books can be found at Good Press in Glasgow, Typewronger Books in Edinburgh, CCA Derry and MAP Magazine.

Selected Exhibitions + Screenings

2025  The glass with the fingers dipped in, solo exhibition, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
2024  Screening with Spryte X Minor Attractions, London
2024  LOVE STORIES, screening at CCA Glasgow Cinema, 13/06/24
2024  LOVE STORIES, duo exhibition with Edward Gwyn Jones, Glasgow Project Room
2023  New sheets screening with Spryte, streaming on a continuous loop between 12:00 and 00:00, UTC +1, 03/09/23
2022  Acid Free, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
2022  Ai Mi Tagai 2022, White Conduit Projects, London
2021  The Naming of Things, curated by Bryony Dawson, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2021  A thing that remembers itself, curated by Holly Rose O’Brien, The Deep End, Glasgow
2021  Ai Mi Tagai 2021, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
2021  HOT WHEELS, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2021  The Thread Itself, part of GLUE online exhibition programme, Glasgow School of Art
2020  A Slip of Certain Measure, 142 Crownpoint Road, Glasgow
2020  Picture Window, curated by Bryony Dawson, Soft Spot online, Manchester
2019  Ai Mi Tagai, Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier and Tokyo Geidai, Tokyo
2017  Project #17, The Brick Cube, London
2016  Dream Works, Lethaby Gallery, London
2016  Everything Must Go, Acme Glassyard Studio 109, London
2015  One Box & One Piece, Youkobo Gallery and Tokyo Geidai, Tokyo
2015  Juice, Acme Project Space, London
2015  so-so, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
2015  Liquid, Youkobo Gallery, Tokyo
2015  Online screening commission for Acme Studios homepage, London
2014  Image to Scale, William Road Gallery, London

Radio + Writing

2025 This little, 20-minute vocal performance, Live in the Studio, Radiophrenia Broadcast, 10/04/25 @ 5pm, Streamed online, on Resonance extra and Glasgow 87.9fm
2023 This one’s for the, a radio work commissioned by David Dale Gallery, broadcast on Clyde Built Radio on 10/09/23 @ 12pm
2023 Fyxen, a text commissioned for Wei Zhou’s solo exhibition, ‘The Unspeakable in Pursuit of the Uneatable’, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
2023 Radiophrenia Broadcast, in ‘Shorts 14’ programme 27/08/23 @ 3-4pm, Streamed online, on Resonance extra and Glasgow 87.9fm
2023 Lets fall in, a prose poem commissioned by ho.rr collective for ‘Projections of Love’; a publication and event with screenings, readings, and music from DJ peanut. French Street, Glasgow
2023 Re spir ing, a text commissioned for the group exhibition ‘to tease, to hold these stories through and through’, Glasgow Project Room
2022, a holding place, collaborative writing workshop with Jess Holdengarde, hosted by Ilali Collective, Berlin
2022 Personal Phrases:  Part I Choreography |  Part II Redundancy | Part III Ventriloquy, MAP Magazine, in Feb #64
2022 Radiophrenia Broadcast, in ‘Shorts 25’ programme 17/02/22 @ 1–2pm, Streamed online, on Resonance extra and Glasgow 87.9fm
2021 Being Beside Oneself:  Part I | Part II | Part III, MAP Magazine, in Nov #64
2021 June Volume 1, publication by MFA@GSA Productions
2020 ‘Vibration lets me know you are there’, Radio Series, episode 3: 27/12/21 @ 2pm, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2020 Radiophrenia Broadcast, in ‘Shorts 20’ programme 14/11/20 @ 8-9am, Streamed online, on Resonance extra and Glasgow 87.9fm

Reading + Performance

15 & 16 Feb 2025  The glass, live performance, part of solo exhibition The glass with the fingers dipped in, commissioned by Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
03 Nov 2023 This one’s for the, live performance, ‘Listening Party’ at David Dale Gallery, feat. Hannan Jones, Yulia Carolin Kothe and Sgàire Wood
08 Sep 2023 Fyxen, a reading for the opening of Wei Zhou’s ‘The Unspeakable in Pursuit of the Uneatable’, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
11 Feb 2023 Lets fall in, a reading for ‘Projections of Love’; an event with screenings, readings and music from DJ peanut, with an accompanying publication. Curated by ho.rr collective, French Street, Glasgow