Anthony Davies

Anthony Davies (b 1965) is a London based artist, writer, independent researcher and organiser, currently working as a lecturer in the Fine Art department at Central Saint Martins College, and with the Wealth of Negations group, coordinating communications for the migrant-led Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU).

As a writer on art, politics and economics Davies has published in numerous journals. In the late 1990s, along with Simon Ford, he developed a series of critical debates on young British art (yBa) and the Creative Industries, introducing the dystopian figure of the cultural entrepreneur or ‘Culturepreneur’. This was followed by a series of articles in Mute Magazine on the neoliberal transformation of cultural and educational institutions and later texts including "There is No Alternative: The Future is Self-Organised Parts 1 & 2", co-written with Stephan Dillemuth and Jakob Jakobsen, can be found in various publications.

In addition to Wealth of Negations, Davies is also a founder member of MayDay Rooms, an educational charity based in London and set up in 2011 as a safe haven for historical material linked to social movements and experimental culture. He has co-organised or participated in a range of self-organised initiatives including Posterstudio, Infopool, Copenhagen Free University, Flaxman Lodge, the School of Walls and Space [1], Rosa Kerosene, 10th Floor and more recently, with Reverso set up a DIY wireless communications and self-archiving platform with autonomous cultural spaces in the Peripheries/Favelas and Workers Occupied Houses of São Paulo, Brazil.