Dexter Turriff-Davies was born on the 13th of November 1996 in Dundee, Montrose, Angus. In 2022, he graduated from Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Art.
In 2019 he collaborated with Lateral North, Peacocks Visual Arts and Poppy Scotland on an exhibition at the Scottish Parliament titled What Do We Learn From Th1s?. In 2022, he collaborated with fellow Grays School of Art alumni Jacob Hoffmann for a publication titled Collected Intimacies: A Document. He was selected by the Grampian Hospitals Art Trust to produce new works for their Graduate Exhibition Award showcase titled Articulate alongside Moray School of Art graduate Sue Little.
Dexter Turriff-Davies is a multi-disciplinary artist and socio-political activist from the North East of Scotland. His practice is concerned by the gripping power of nostalgia in relation to desire, nationalism, queer identity and working class subcultures in the North East of Scotland to construct common and uncommon narratives - utilising the ephemeral, personal, linguistic, historic and political contexts of self, other and nation, to build narratives that straddle the boundaries of falsehood and fact, introspection and extroversion.
Heivenly Wraiths Foriver, Foriver Heivenly Wraiths (English to Scots translation: Angels Forever, Forever Angels) is a series of works in which Turriff-Davies seeks reconciliation. To reconcile and grapple with self, nation and other in a time where interpersonal conflict over familial health, raptures of belief and decline hold court.
To evince austere glances, evocations of inwardness and interiority within the gardens of kinship, and especially, the detachment of self, other and nation.
The emotive and aesthetic waves, drapes and rhythms of Heivenly Wraiths Foriver, Foriver Heivenly Wraiths lay down a common and universal narrative. A narrative with a tendency towards the collapse and reconciliation between those foundations in which our bonds in the form of ties of blood and love are placed.
