Siân Davey British, b. 1964

Siân Davey is a photographer and founder of The Creative Body Process. She has a background in fine art and social policy, and worked for fifteen years as a Humanist Psychotherapist. In 2007, following a visit to the Louise Bourgeois retrospective at Tate Modern, London, she was inspired to translate her personal history into a creative practice. In 2011, she moved into photography, drawing upon her history to inform her practice.  In 2014 Davey completed an MA in Photography at the University of Plymouth, followed by an MFA in 2016.

Her awards include the Arnold Newman Award for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, New York (2016), the Prix Virginia, Paris (2016) and the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal (2017) and Honorary Fellowship (2023). Her work was selected in three consecutive years (2015 - 2017) for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has been a recipient of a W. Eugene Smith Fellowship (2019), commissioned by the Wellcome Photography Prize (2019) and been a nominee for the Prix Elysée (2023) and more recently the Prix Pictet.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows, including at Aperture, New York (2018); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2021); Richard Saltoun Gallery, London (2021); and Images Vevey, Switzerland (2022). She is represented by the Michael Hoppen Gallery, London.

Davey's work is held by various collections including the Science Museum, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bristol and the National Portrait Gallery London the Centre national des arts Plastiques, Paris; and the Martin Parr Foundation.

The Garden is Sian's third book with Trolley Books following Looking for Alice (2015) and Martha (2018). Looking For Alice was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Awards (2016) and for the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Awards (2017).

She lives and works in Totnes, Devon.