Tim Davies was born in Haverfordwest and brought up in Johnston, Pembrokeshire. He studied Fine Art at Norwich School of Art and completed an MA at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury. He returned to Wales in 1994 and now lives and works in Swansea. For over thirty years Davies has worked across a range of media, exhibiting extensively in Wales, the UK and internationally. 

His awards include the Mostyn Open Prize, the Gold Medal in Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod, and the Wakelin Award. He was the first European artist shortlisted for the Artes Mundi Visual Arts Prize and represented Wales in a solo show at the Venice Biennale in 2011. His work is represented in many private and public collections, including the British Council, Arts Council Collection at the Hayward Gallery, London, the Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, the Harris Museum, Preston and Amgueddfa Cymru/Museum Wales, Cardiff. Two monographs Process, published by Seren, and Tim Davies, published by Ridinghouse, focus on his practice while his work has featured in many group and solo exhibition catalogues and studies of visual art over the years, notably Certain Welsh Artists by Iwan Bala, also published by Seren. 

Davies’ work interrogates contemporary sociopolitical and cultural contexts, using two and three dimensional and performative media. Much of his work involves meticulous, repetitive and time-consuming actions. His recent practice is exploring the written, spoken and visualised word. One of his written and much-performed pieces is featured in the 2026 anthology Peaceweavers, edited by Rebecca Lowe and published by Culture Matters.