Davies is passionate about the
culture,
language and
politics of Wales, which inspire his artwork. For a number of years he has sponsored the
Ivor Davies Award at
Y Lle Celf (
Art Space in
Welsh), at the
National Eisteddfod of Wales, for an artwork "that conveys the spirit of activism in the struggle for language, culture and politics in Wales". Davies' early works in the 1960s used explosives as an expression of society's destructive nature. Davies took part in the
Destruction in Art Symposium in London in 1966. A major retrospective exhibition of his work from the 1940s onwards,
Ivor Davies: Silent Explosion, opened at
National Museum Cardiff in 2015. This was the largest exhibition dedicated to the work of a single contemporary artist ever held in Wales. ==References==