Jonathan Davis is a British artist who in 2012 concluded a career in architecture and strategic urban planning to establish a full time art practice in London. The so-called ‘populist revolts’ of 2016 soon caused him to radically re-cast his developing practice in 2D, mainly abstract, painting and drawing in favour of work that raises questions about the nature of contemporary politics and its relationship with fascism in modern European history.
'We All Have a Story', shown in Berlin December 2019 examined how populist nationalists have de-humanised others and destabilised democracies through lies and the corruption of power. This followed ‘For it is Written’ (Berlin 2018) which raised questions about the relationship between the language and ideology of ‘Brexit’ and the Nazi period. Underlying all of this work is a warning about complacency and a call to action in the face infiltration of democratic nations by Putin’s Russia and its apologists and collaborators.