Insider Art Tour with Rosalind Davis & Sasha Bowles. March

"A window into the art world"

"Brilliant, generous and well informed. Recommended!"

"A wondrous art safari which had a massive impact on my practice"

• Discover art gallery gems. Visiting a a range of diverse, powerful and interesting gallery models and spaces - commercial, artist-led and public galleries and how they operate.
• Meet and talk to gallery directors and managers /curators/ artists and be able to ask questions about their exhibitions, practices, ethos and opportunities
• Gain insight into artistic processes, ideas, mediums and materials.
• Spend a rich afternoon networking, debating and discussing art with artists, arts professionals and curators
• A wonderful research trip: inspirational and thought provoking. This is a great opportunity to think about your artistic practice, build on your knowledge and critical context
• Discounted Refreshments at Daisy Green Food where you can also view their collection.
• Closing with informal networking at The Colony Room, an Art Installation by Darren Coffield and Bar, part of Ziggy Green, Soho, with live music, more art and pub prices!

Rosalind Davis is a Curator, Artist, art consultant, teacher, mentor, writer and designer and a passionate and dedicated art professional.

Davis has curated and led hundreds of art tours independently and for many organisations including the ICA (London and Boston), the Whitechapel Gallery and UAL and contributed to ‘Tales of Winter’ that airs every winter on the BBC and have participated in a number of podcasts, online talks and interviews for various arts organisations and publications.

As Curator she has curated over 30 exhibitions to date and in 2023 curated an ambitious group show at Arthouse Jersey exhibiting 23 acclaimed international artists with over 70,000 visitors. Davis was the Curator at Collyer Bristow Gallery in London 2016 -20. In 2021 she curated Trace Elements | 1971 at The Factory Project produced by Thorp Stavri, an ambitious alternative art fair which had over 17,000 visitors, Athens Art Fair- Platforms, Athens (2023), Standpoint Gallery, Arthouse1 and Geddes Gallery, London. Davis co-directed Art Organisations Zeitgeist Arts Projects (2012-15) at Bond House Gallery (ASC) and Core Gallery 2010-12. In both organizations she was a curator and ran an artist’s education programme as well as tutorials and art tours. In 2023 she delivered a Curatorial Residency for UK New Artists.

Rosalind is the most informed artist and curator around. Intellectually stimulating and well thought through she curates the smartest, and most intelligent and thought -provoking exhibitions shows of new and emergent art in London of such a consistently high standard.” Graham Crowley.

Davis is co-author of ‘What they didn’t teach you at art school’ and has written a number of articles for a-n and other arts publications. She lectures at universities, galleries and organisations across the world including the RCA, ICA, Camden Arts Centre, UAL and for various universities outside of London as well as online for VAA and Professional Artists Institute.

Davis has been a mentor for over 15 years, for a-n, Artquest, PLOP, UKNA and Shape as well as working independently with creatives for many years.

Davis has been on many judging panels to select works for exhibitions and prizes including Jacksons Painting Prize, the Robert Walters UK Young Artist of the Year Award, Chapel Arts Studios and the VAA to name a few.

As an artist Davis ‘central investigation is the transformation and reconfiguration of architecture and space through multiple disciplines, including painting, drawing and photography, creating a series of site-specific installations independently and in collaboration with Justin Hibbs. Their work was commissioned by ITV with movement artist Jamal Sterrett. Davis has exhibited nationally and internationally in a wide range of galleries. Her work is held in a number of private collections and public collections including Soho House. Davis also creates Gardens for the Daisy Green Collection of restaurants which she sees as an extension of her practice. See more here

www.rosalinddavis.co.uk

Sasha Bowles Biography

Sasha Bowles (b.England) is an artist and curator; she has a MA from Wimbledon College of Art (2013). In 2023 Sasha designed the interiors for the reception, lift and bedroom for the Gainsborough Hotel 2022 she built an immersive site specific solo exhibition Ramsgate Belles at Laurent Delaye Gallery and a theatrical façade piece in The Always On My Mind at The Fitzrovia Gallery. In 2019 Bowles was awarded the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors with an exhibition in 2021. Other exhibitions included: Model and Maquette-Scale’ and Pineapple Sugar Cube, a 4m high theatrical installation, for Trace Elements at The Factory Project Curated by Rosalind Davis. Recent exhibitions have been at The Colony Room . Commissions for Daisy Green at Holland Park Cafe, (2025), Ramsgate’s Great, Public Commission for Ramsgate High Street, (2024),Classical Expositions, Gainsborough Hotel, London and Taking Liberties With The Masters, Exhibitionist Hotel, London, -Solo Exhibition (2023). Bowles is also part of a performative collaboration with Laura Moreton Griffiths and has done number of public speaking engagement engagements most recently Femininity and Subjectivity, International Women’s Day, Chelsea Collage of Arts (2025). Residencies have been at Arthouse Jersey and Unit 1 Gallery, Her work is in a number of private and public collections worldwide.

www.Sashabowles.co.uk

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

Get App

Host or Publisher ARC by Rosalind Davis