Street Choir

Michael Davis’s Street Choir series transforms the familiar into the extraordinary, paying homage to the street trees of Sydney. Rendered in bright, stencil-like forms against shallow, darkened backgrounds, these works elevate everyday urban flora into vibrant characters. Fragments of text—“IN THE PINES,” “BEAUTIFUL VISION”, “BLEEDING HEART”—personify the trees, capturing their quiet resilience and emotional resonance.

Arranged in linear rows and columns reminiscent of botanical reference books, the Street Choir series reflects Davis’s love of taxonomy. Each tree is considered individually, its unique traits celebrated without hierarchy. These works, while playful in tone, also offer a deeper reflection on human emotion and connection, suggesting parallels between the endurance of street trees and the peculiarities of human desire and resilience.