Moon Rising, 2025
Site-specific performance
Researching the histories of various regions in Wales, Angela Davies develops her work exploring realities that exist both within and outside of our time and space. This latest work is derived from the small coves – namely, the Porth Ysgaden (herring harbour) and the Porth y Cychod (boat harbour) on the north coast of Penllyn in Gwynedd – once the lifeblood of local communities sustained by the herring fishing industry, but now, undeveloped and almost forgotten. The performance was executed on a particular day, the Autumnal Equinox in 2025, 22 September, when day and night are approximately equal in length. Just before dusk, the performance on Ty’n Tywyn beach interprets the breath of the ocean, tidal rhythms, and the fluidity of nature. It is not just the loss of the heritage, the past, but something more critical, and relevant to our contemporary world – the loss of balance and harmony. Responding to the global urgency of our environmental crisis, in fact, every movement of the performance becomes an embodiment of human effort to re-connect our land and sea, and to reconcile with nature for generations to come, until she raises a sail, envisioning a decisive departure towards a precarious future.
Creative Process of Artist Angela Davies
Participating artist elaborates their creative concepts and processes.

Performance Art Land 2025 Artist
Angela Davies
Angela Davies, is a Wales born artist. Her work negotiates support systems and the fragile networks they carry. Spanning scale and processes, Davies is often drawn to using organic materials to explore ideas of transformation. She works across sculpture, installation, video and performance.
Davies completed her Masters at Manchester School of Art in 2013. She currently has a solo show at Plas Glyn y Weddw in Wales (2025). Her work has been exhibited at Currents, Sante Fe(2025), Fosun Foundation, Shanghai (2022), Glynn Vivian, Swansea (2024), IKT/Mostyn, Llandudno (2023), S12 Galleri Bergen, Norway (2018) and V2 Lab for the Unstable Media, Netherlands (2018).
Selected awards include Arts Council Wales and Natural Resources Wales - Future Wales Fellowship(2022), Creative Wales Award (2019), ESRC Impact Accelerator Award at Bangor University(2018), Innovate UK (2018), A-N (2020). Selected residencies include Alps Art Academy(2018), National Theatre Wales (2018), HOME Manchester (2016), Pervasive Media Studio Bristol (Since 2017) and Cadw (2015-2018).





