Thursday
25
April
Llangadfan artist's Cardiff exhibition
14/10/2010 @ 01:00
A Llangadfan artist, considered to be the most exciting and successful of her generation, is exhibiting her work in Cardiff.Shani Rhys James’ latest exhibition is at the Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff until October 28
Her considerable reputation, both in Wales and beyond, continues to grow apace.
William Packer, art critic of the Financial Times, has spoken of her as a painter of remarkable power whose paintings are as Born in Melbourne, Australia to a Welsh father and Australian mother, her family emigrated to Britain when she was a young girl and she has klived in rural Wales for over 30 years.
She is regularly called the most exciting and successful painter of her generation and has won numerous awards, including the Jerwood Prize, The National Portrait Award, The Mostyn Open, The Hunting Prize, the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
In 2003 she was also awarded Welsh Woman in Culture and in 2006 was awarded an MBE.
Her body of collectors, both private and public, continues to expand in Britain and especially abroad, with sales to important private collections in the USA , Belgium , France , Germany , Switzerland and Hong Kong .
Recent public collection purchases include two major works to Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art and another to the Arts Council of England.
In 1972/73 she attended a Foundation Course at Loughborough College of Art. Thereafter, from 1973 to 1976, she studied Fine Art at St.Martin College of Art in London. She is a member of The 56 Group as well as the Royal Cambrian Academy.
"My desire is to produce powerful, emotional paintings which are read for their content, their colour and their abstract elements,” she said.
"My desire is to produce powerful, emotional paintings which are read for their content, their colour and their abstract elements,” she said.
“I have to be emotionally and mentally taken over by my paintings. They are seemingly direct; I paint about the studio, the kitchen, the artist, my children, childhood memories. So imaginative and observational elements co-exist in each work."
She has won numerous prizes including The Jerwood Prize (the UK’s most prestigious and valuable prize for painting), The Hunting Prize, The National Portrait Award, The Mostyn Open, and the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod.
She was the recipient of the Welsh Woman in Culture Award in 2003 and was made an MBE in the 2006 honours list and also received a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales in January 2006.
She received 'The Glyndwr Award 2007', presented by MOMA for her outstanding contribution to Welsh Art, and has been made an Honorary Fellow of The University of Wales Institute Cardiff.
Commissions & Residencies: 1996/98 Travelling Exhibition, Initiated By Mostyn, Llandudno; 1996 A Commission For A Painting, Midlands Art Centre; 1995/96 A Painting For 'In The Looking Glass' Usher Gallery, Lincoln; 1994 Disclosures Exhibition, Mostyn Gallery; 1994 Life Drawing Residency, Aberystwyth Arts Centre;
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