[2][3] Davies was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, and grew up in a musical household, playing in local brass bands alongside her father and brother.
[2][3] She studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and subsequently with violinists Charles-Andre Linale in Düsseldorf, Germany and Howard Davis in London.
[4] Davies has collaborated on improvised projects with musicians and artists including Tarek Atoui, Tony Conrad,[5] Laura Cannell, Jack McNamara, Roberta Jean and J.G.Thirlwell.
Davies has also collaborated with French composer Éliane Radigue, who wrote the solo violin work OCCAM XXI for her in 2015.
Dawson described Davies' idiosyncratic violin playing on his album as “being like a layer of frost, or maybe dew, or maybe like a light fog, just clinging to everything”.