Lottie Davies

Born in Guildford, Surrey in 1971, photographer Lottie Davies now divides her time between Cornwall and London. Working with large-format staged photography and short film, she constructs meticulously lit tableaux that draw on Renaissance painting, literature and personal memory. Her long-running project Quints and the narrative cycle Memories and Nightmares probe motherhood, displacement and the subconscious, while the recent moving-image installation Quinn charts a fictional walker’s journey the length of Britain. Davies’s photographs are held by the National Portrait Gallery, the Wellcome Collection and numerous private collections, and have been shown at Rencontres d’Arles, the Photographers’ Gallery and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She won the National Portrait Gallery’s Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize in 2008, has twice received the Association of Photographers Gold Award, and gained an Honourable Mention at the Prix Pictet in 2023. Editioned pigment prints of her signature works typically fetch low five-figure sums and surface regularly at Phillips and Forum auctions, giving her a modest yet liquid secondary market.