[2][4][5] He was elected vice-president of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in 1995[4] and is a member of The Welsh Group.
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".
[10] Davies' early works in the 1960s used explosives as an expression of society's destructive nature.
[11][12] 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.