Noah Davis: Talks and Events

Thu 6 Feb –Sun 11 May 2025

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Thu 6 Mar 2025, 18:30

Join curatorial assistant Kitty Gurnos-Davies on a tour of the exhibition that highlights how Davis explored the emotional textures of everyday life through his artmaking. 

Wed 12 Mar 2025, 18:15

Prince’s 1984 cultural touchstone blending music, drama, and bold visual storytelling.

Thu 20 Mar 2025, 18:30

For this special evening, join curator Wells Fray-Smith as she selects some of her favourite works in the exhibition and how Davis referenced and defied his art historical heroes.

Sat 22 Mar 2025, 15:20

Douglas Sirk's 1959 melodrama based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel about two single mothers, one black, one white, striving together in a man's world.

Thu 3 Apr 2025, 18:30

A series of films that explore the monumental within the everyday, confronting memory, community, and identity with intimacy and innovation taking inspiration from Noah Davis's Delusions of Grandeur.

Thu 10 Apr 2025, 18:30

Join curatorial assistant Kitty Gurnos-Davies on this tour of the exhibition that charts Davis’s work as a painter, curator and community builder.

Thu 24 Apr 2025, 18:30

Join curator Wells Fray-Smith on this exhibition tour, highlighting Davis’s use of found photography and images of friends and family as source material for his exuberant paintings of everyday life.