Brân Davies

Brân Davies, a recent graduate of Hereford College of Arts, is an artist blacksmith drawn to the plasticity and material qualities of forged steel. His sculptural works begin with research and sketching, forming initial ideas that evolve through a continuous process of maquette making, forging, and reflection. This iterative cycle allows the design concepts and material explorations to inform one another, combining traditional blacksmithing techniques with a contemporary sculptural approach.

He is particularly interested in the point where form and function meet, enjoying how engineered structures often possess beauty through their functional necessity. In contrast, his sculptures use aesthetics to suggest an implied purpose, focusing on the material’s connections, forms, and surface textures. The resulting designs achieve a recognisable industrial character, infused with a rich narrative of functional speculation.

Brân’s current body of work is inspired by visualisations of particle collisions as observed in the Large Hadron Collider. These sculptures respond to the dynamic motion and energy of subatomic interactions, exploring the fluidity of interaction and rigidity of machines. The large-scale installations capture the tension between motion and structure, giving material presence to the invisible architecture of the universe.