Terence Davies is a singularly idiosyncratic, independent filmmaker, who moved in the same circles as Derek Jarman. He was announced as a Film London Jarman Award Patron in 2020.

Recurring themes in Davies' film work include memory and its close relationship to popular culture, particularly music and movies; the disjunction between bleak lives and glittering fantasies. Spare and austere, his elegant films tend to be contemplative and deliberately paced and have been hailed as sublime works of art.