Kate Davis & David Moore

Title: Black Moon Ripped ii

Media: Collage with manuscript paper and nail varnish

Size: 28.7 x 28.7 cm x 5mm

About the work: Black Moon Ripped i & ii riff on the motif of the lamp that illuminates Picasso’s Guernica, a scene of war and its horrors and were made in response to the current situation in Palestine.
These two works are part of an on-going series of black, white, and red collages that explore the state of duende and its opposite.

Bio: Kate Davis, Senior tutor in Sculpture at Royal College of Art, London and David Moore, Programme Director for Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art began to collaborate in 2010. In the following year The Cut, their first film won the experimental short film award at Swedenborg Film Festival.

In 2023 they were nominated for both a David and Yuko Art Foundation and a Bryan Robertson Award and were winners of the Lapeca inaugural Scottish Landscape Award for their work BASS ROCK (Songs of the North Vol. 1), woven from sheets of music of traditional Scottish songs.

They live and work in both Edinburgh and London and describe the East Coast Main Line as their longest thinnest studio.

Title: Black Moon Ripped i

Media: Collage with manuscript paper and nail varnish

Size: 28.7 x 28.7 cm x 5mm

About the work: Black Moon Ripped i & ii riff on the motif of the lamp that illuminates Picasso’s Guernica, a scene of war and its horrors and were made in response to the current situation in Palestine.
These two works are part of an on-going series of black, white, and red collages that explore the state of duende and its opposite.

Bio: Kate Davis, Senior tutor in Sculpture at Royal College of Art, London and David Moore, Programme Director for Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art began to collaborate in 2010. In the following year The Cut, their first film won the experimental short film award at Swedenborg Film Festival.

In 2023 they were nominated for both a David and Yuko Art Foundation and a Bryan Robertson Award and were winners of the Lapeca inaugural Scottish Landscape Award for their work BASS ROCK (Songs of the North Vol. 1), woven from sheets of music of traditional Scottish songs.

They live and work in both Edinburgh and London and describe the East Coast Main Line as their longest thinnest studio.