Author: Bruce Davies

Bruce Davies is an artist whose work looks, primarily, at the relationship between artist, gallery and viewer; how environments can shape the perception and understanding of an artwork and how a space can alter the nature of the work itself. He is also the curator of BasementArtsProject, a domestic house that also functions as a gallery, studio and event space In Beeston.
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Socialism is Socially Unacceptable? Part I

On By Bruce Davies

“Arbeit Macht Frei – Work sets you free” was the legend above the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the single biggest lie ever sold to the world. For more than one million Jewish people this was the gate to interminable suffering and eventual death. It was only when the war was brought to an end and the gates to this hell on earth were thrown open, that the world witnessed the extent of the atrocities that the Nazi’s had wrought on humankind.

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The Past Is A Foreign Country.

On By Bruce Davies

Every year representatives of all political parties gather at the Cenotaph alongside members of the Armed Forces and the general population to commemorate Armistice Day. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that moment at which the canons fell silent and the fighting of the previous four years ceased. Ever since that day we have been called upon to ‘Never Forget’.