THE RESTORATION

The Restoration features new paintings, sculptures and mirror works sourced from influences as diverse as gothic gargoyles, the collages of Max Ernst and Jim Henson’s Muppets.
Davies combines sculpture and painting in order, in his words, to ‘lure the unconscious into view’ , to investigate the workings of illusion and to bring the past into the present. The collision and reworkings of diverse sources creates ‘disturbing restorations’, a potential ‘better’ state.
Mirrors are glazed with vibrant colour and used to float images dynamically before the viewer. Muppet characters are reworked, and reflected back to create multi-layered connections with Max Ernst’s surreal collage novel Une Semaine de Bonte and with Eugene Viollet-le-Duc’s famorously enhanced ‘restorations’ of the gargoyles and chimeras of Notre Dame.