J Davies (Ngāti Te Awhitu, Ngāti Hauā) is a takatāpui artist living and creating on the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Their practice is rooted in an ever-growing archive of contemporary queer existence, weaving connection, community, and culture through the intertwined lenses of identity, intimacy, and neurodiversity.

With a deliberately personal and tender approach, J Davies turns the camera inward to document the private geographies of their own life. They invite audiences to reconsider how intimacy is created, communicated, and cherished. Their work traces a shifting relationship to time and memory, shaped in part by their diagnosis of a processing disorder that complicated the borders between dreaming and waking.

J’s work has been exhibited at Le Recontrés d’Arles (France), the Hong Kong International Photography Festival, National Gallery of Victoria for Melbourne Now, The Centre for Contemporary Photography and Photo 2024. They have been an artist in residence at Collingwood Yards and LCI Melbourne and a finalist for both the Bowness Photography Prize and the National Photographic Portrait Prize. 

J Davies is represented by Mars Gallery in Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand. See the catalogue of available works here.



Contact: jdavies.studio@gmail.com
Instagram: @jdavies.studio


Artist Portrait by Andy Johnson at Hillvale Gallery for Maybe Our Dreams Are Real exhibition opening 2025

© J Davies