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FIBRE.ART.WALES - artists |
BETHAN ASH - CV 1965-68 Foundation
+ C&G Dress Design, Swansea College of Art Awards:
2008 The Polly Weiss award for most exciting use of colour, SDC, Mall Galleries, London
2001 Inscape Bank, UK - artist profile for promotion/ advertising
1997 1st European Quilt Championships, Veldhoven, NL - 3 trophies - Design, Colour & 1st place in Advanced Group.
1997 Runner up South Bank Banner Design Competition, London
1994 Craft & Design award - Royal National Eisteddfod, Neath, S. Wales
Collections:
2003 'Titch', Braintree Museum and Art Gallery, Braintree Museum & Art Gallery, Essex, UK.
2002 'Chasing the Dragon', The Museum of Art and Design, Textile Collection, New York, USA
1999 'Real Artists Don't Make Textiles', Braintree Museum & Art Gallery, Essex, UK.
1999 'Real Artists Do Make Textiles', Braintree Museum & Art Gallery, Essex, UK.
1995 'Tramp Art 5, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery, Maidstone, Kent, UK.
Commissions:
2006 Oriel Makers Gallery, Cardiff. website to commemorate the gallery's 15th anniversary
2005 Art In The Frame Community Quilt, Art In The Frame, Jersey, Channel Islands
2001 Hide and Seek quilt - for theatrical production at Chapter Arts Theatre, Cardiff
2000 Owain Glyn Dwr Centenary Quilt, Royal National Eisteddfod, Llanelli
2000 Six Banners for Riverside Community Banner 2000 Project, The Warehouse, Riverside, Cardiff
1996-97 Butetown Community Quilt - Butetown History and Art Centre, Cardiff
1995 Patchwork figure no 9 for S.D.C. Catalogue, The Mall Gallery exhibition
1984-86 Whitbread Brewery, collection of five quilts for Princess Diana Hotel, South Wales
Selected Exhibitions:
2008 -
EAQ V, European Art Quilt touring exhibition, opens in NEC, Birmingham, UK. 14th - 17th August - selected
Journey from Bed to Wall, Quilters' Guild inaugural exhibition, St Anthony's Hall Quilt Museum & Gallery, York. 7th June to 28th September - invited
Journeys - Fibre Art Wales group, Banbury Museum, Banbury, Oxfordshire. 10th May - 22nd June - group show
Quilt Art 22 -
Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery, Gloucester, U.K. 26th April - 31st May, 2008
MIAT Museum, Gent, Belgium. 21st June - 14th September, 2008
QUILT ART 20 An exhibition to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Quilt Art. 2008 venues -
Textilsammlung Max Berk, Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg, Germany, 24th February – 1st June 2008
Followed by a two year tour of American venues - click here for more information on Quilt Art
CRAFTBOSTON, Seaport World Trade Centre, Boston, USA by invitation of the Society of Arts and Crafts, 28th - 30th March - invited
Designer Crafts At The Mall 2008, SDC exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London, 9th - 30th January
2007 -
Quilt Art 22 -
The Art Center Sikeborg Bad, Denmark
Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes, Wales,
Designer Crafts @ Chelsea 2007, FAW exhibition with SDC, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London
Festival of Quilts, NEC Birmingham, UK
Quilt Art 20 - twentieth anniversary touring exhibition, 2007 venues -
Stedelijk Museum, Roermond, The Netherlands
Budapest, Hungary
Nordwestdeutsches Museum für IndustrieKultur, Delmenhorst, Germany
The National Crafts Centre, Kilkenny, Ireland
Musée Textile de Haute-Alsace, Wesserling, France
International Quilt Week 2007,Yokohama, Japan
Burlington Museum, Ontario, Canada,
2006 -
National Eisteddfod, Swansea, West Wales
QUILT ART 21 - Vertically Challenged, Durham Museum and Art Gallery, Durham, UK.
Oriel Makers Gallery - 15th Anniversary exhibition, Cardiff, Wales UK
Quilt '06, The Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham, UK
2006 - 08 Touring exhibitions -
EAQ IV, European Art Quilt touring exhibition opens in "la Sucriere", Lyon, France
Musee de l'Impression sur Etoffes, Mulhouse, France.
Textile Museum Tilburg, The Netherlands
EAQ IV in Nebraska, The Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, USA
Textilforum, Herning, Denmark June - August 2007
QUILT ART 20 An exhibition to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Quilt Art. 2006 venues
Collins Gallery, Glasgow, U.K
Royal Cornwall Museum, U.K
Bankfield Museum, Halifax, U.K
Gloucester Museum, U.K
Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, U.K
Stedelijk Museum, Roermond, The Netherland
2005 -
Art In The Frame Exhibition and workshops, Art In The Frame Foundation, St Helier, Jersey
Origins FAW exhibition, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
RE-INTERPRETATIONS Quilt Art touring exhibition organised by Braintree Museum. Brewery Arts, Cirencester, Glos + Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
ENABLEDARTISTS Diorama Arts Centre, 34 Osnaburgh Street, London
FIBREARTSISTS TOKO, 74 Eastgate, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
H O M E L A N D S Denbigh Library and Art Gallery, Denbigh, North Wales. + Braintree District Museum and Art Gallery, Essex.
QUILT ART August, Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham, UK
2004 -
Art Quilts from the Collection of the American Museum of Art & Design, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts. USA (invited)
ORIGINS, F.A.W UK touring exhibition, The Knitting & Stitching Show, London, Dublin and Harrogate
HOMELANDS Brewey Art Centre, Cirencester, Glos (group)
FIBRE.ART.WALES In IRELAND, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, Northern Ireland (group)
Celebrating Ten - Dethlu Deg, Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes, Mid Wales (invited)
HOMELANDS, Theatr Mwldan, Ceredigion F.A.W UK touring exhibition
RE-Interpretations, Braintree Museum and Art Gallery - UK touring exhibition - Quilt Art group
ENABLEARTISTS, Royal Pump Room Museum and Art Gallery, Leamington Spa, UK. (group)
ENABLEARTISTS, Theatre Clwyd, Mold, Flintshire, North Wales. UK (with Catherine Taylor Parry)
2003 -
Quilts from Six Continents, American Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA, Australia and Japan. (selected)
European Art Quilt 2, The Textile Museum, Helmbrechts, Germany (selected)
FIBRE VISIONS, Gwynedd Musem and Art Gallery, Bangor, North Wales, UK. (group)
FIBRE VISIONS, City Museum and Art Gallery, Gloucester, UK. (group)
ENABLEARTISTS, Piece Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Halifax, UK. (group)
QUILT NATIONAL '03, The Dairy Barn, Ohio, USA. + Canada, Australia and Japan. (selected)
Re-Interpretations, Braintree Museum and Art Gallery, Essex, UK (group)
ENABLEARTISTS, Castle Park Arts Centre, Frodsham, Cheshire, UK. (group)
ENABLEARTISTS, Mansfield Museum, Nottingham, UK. (group)
2002 -
Quilt 2002. Alexander Palace. London. UK. (selected)
Quilts from Six Continents, American Museum of Art and Design, touring exhibition, USA, Japan and Australia. (selected)
Limited Edition, Alexandra Palace, London, UK. (group)
Welsh Artists, Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Hampshire, UK. (selected)
One Of A Kind, Scaplans Court Museum, Western-Super-Mare, UK. (group)
Dwelling Places, Madeira Show, Harrowgate, UK. (group)
Fibre Art Wales At The Grand, The Grand Theatre, Swansea. UK (group)
Crossing Borders, St Donats Art Centre, Vale of Glam., UK. (group)
2001 -
Fibre Visions, The Contemporary Craftsman, Monmouth, UK. (group)
The Contemporary Quilt, Mineva Art Centre, Llanidloes, Powys. (invited)
European Art Quilt 2, Breda, The Netherlands and Textilforum Denmark. (selected)
Fibre Visions, Llantarnham Grange Arts Centre, Torfaen. (group).
'Rise and Shine', The Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon.
Contemporary Art Quilts, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear. (invited)
Atmosphere, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport, South Wales, UK. (selected)
Moving On - Quilt Art, European Touring exhibition, UK, Germany, France + Denmark (group)
2000 -
Quilt 2000, Alexander Palace, London, Harrogate & Dublin/ Ireland.
Mettalic Elements, VIS-U-AL-ISE, Cardiff, South Wales.
Europe At The Millennium, Strasbourg, France.
Love In The 21st Century, Oriel Makers, Cardiff, South Wales.
Atmosphere, Oceanside Museum of Art, California, USA.
1999 -
Quilt 99, Alexander Palace, London, Harrogate & Dublin/ Ireland.
Rags To Riches, Oriel Pendeitsh Gallery, Caernarfon, North Wales - Solo exhibition.
Colour & Form, Llantarnam Grange Art Centre, South Wales - Solo exhibition.
European Art Quilt, The Riverside Gallery, Bovey Tracey, Devon.
The Commissioning Dialogoue, The Mall Galleries, London. SDC group show
1998-
Artful Boxes. NFA. UK Touring Exhibition.
Quilt Art 'Poetic Licence European Touring Exhibition
Mail Art, Barcelona, Spain & Lodtz, Poland.
1997 -
European Art Quilt, Tilsberg, Netherlands & Denmark.
European Patchwork Championships, Netherlands.
International Quilt Exhibition, Yokohama, Japan.
Colourworks, Makers Gallery, Cardiff.
Fibre on the Outside, Durham Museum.
South Bank Banner Design, South Bank London.
1996 -
A Vision in Action, Durham Museum & Holburne Craft Centre, Bath.
Fibre on the Outside, Norton Priory, Cheshire.
Quilt Art 10, Museum of Oxford.
Quilt Art New Work, touring Europe for 3 years.
1995 -
N.F.A. at the Storey Institute, Lancs.
Interiors, Devizes Art Gallery, Wiltshire.
The Furniture Group, Once a Tree Gallery, Bath.
2D or not 2D, Oriel Myrrdin, Carmarthen.
S.D.C. Mall Gallery, London.
24/60 All Square, Touring exhibition 12 venues over 2 years.
1994 -
N.F.A. Norton Priory, Cheshire.
S.D.C. Rufford Craft Centre, Notts.
N.F.A. The Gallery Downstairs, Burnley.
24/60 All Square, The Lindsey Gallery, Lincs.
Royal National Eisteddfod, Neath, West Glam. South Wales.
The Portrait, The Pearoom, Lincoln.
The Commissioning Dialogue, The Mall Gallery, London.
Women in Art, The Old Library, Cardiff.
1993 -
It's a Wrap, The Pearoom Contemporary Crafts Centre, Lincoln.
Quilts Europa, Leuven, Brussels.
N.F.A. Maidstone Museum, Kent.
1992 -
Fibre meets Fiber, Mansfield Museum, Notts.
Fibre meets Fiber, San Diego, U.S.A.
1991 -
Wales In Europe Through Its Crafts, Makers Guild in Wales exhibition, Brussels.
Publications:
Portfolio 14 (cover), editor Cheryl Dineen Ferrin, Studio Art Quilts, Inc. publication, USA. 2007
Quilt Art 22 - Under Construction, written by Charlotte Yde, Quilt Art publication, UK. 2007
Portfolio 13, editor Cheryl Dineen Ferrin, Studio Art Quilts, Inc. publication, USA. 2006
Creative Quilts….Inspiration, Texture and Stitch, written by Sandra Meech, Batsford Publications, UK. 2006
European Art Quilts IV, written and published by Netherlands Centrum voor Handwerken, NL. 2006
Six Continents of Quilts: The Museum of Arts and Design Collection, written and published by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan. 2005
QUILT ART 20, QUILT ART, written by Susan Denton and Charlotte Yde, Quilt Art publication UK. 2005
Homelands, joint editors Bethan Ash and Helen Foroughi, Fibre Art Wales Publication, Wales 2004
Floral Quilts, written by Marion Haslam, Chrysalis Publications. 2003
Quilt National '03, The Best of Contemporary Quilts, written and published by Lark Books, USA 2003
'Fibre Visions' written by Alastair Duncan, Fibre Art Wales Publication, Wales. 2001
European Art Quilts II, Netherlands Centrum voor Handwerken, NL. 2000
MOVING ON, QUILT ART, Susan Denton and Charlotte Yde, UK. 2000
THE ART QUILT, written by Robert Shaw, published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Inc., USA. 1997
European Art Quilts I, written and published by Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, NL. 1997
New Work, QUILT ART, written by Susan Denton and Rita Humphry, Quilt Art publication UK. 1996
The Encyclopaedia of Quilting Techniques, written by Kathryn Guerrier, published by Running Press, UK. 1995
Magazines include -
Mary Englebrite Home Companion magazine USA - Top Spot feature article June - July 2008
The Quilter, QA22, Under Construction, review by Anne Williams, Winter 2007
Selvedge Magazine, QA22 - Under Construction, review by Sue Marks, November 2007
Juxtaposition of idioms by Stephanie Brown, The Quilter, Winter 2005
Fibre Art feature article, Artist Newsletter 2004
Fibre Art feature article, by Jill Nicholls, The World of Embroidery, 2004
Quilt Art exhibition review, CRAFTS 2002
Raising the profile of a material form of art, Hannah Jones, Western Mail, June 2001
BBC on line - Cymru'r Byd, feature article in Welsh, 2000
Today's Collectables, feature article Country Homes and Interiors, December 1999
Artist Home feature article, Real Homes magazine, 1999
Rags To Riches feature article Western Mail 1998
Quilted images from a master of textile art article, by Penny Fray, Western Mail December 1998
Patchwork Quilt Tushin, Japan - feature article about Bethan Ash written by the editor Naomi Ichykoma 1998
New Fibre Art feature, by Helen Pincus, The World of Embroidery, Spring 1994
Reviews in Popular Patchwork 2000, 2003 and 2005
Residencies: Other:
2007 Quilt Art 'QA22 - Under Construction' - exhibition coordinator
2006 Freelance website designer. Working on private commissions and exhibition art work
2006 Oriel Makers Gallery, Cardiff - designed and produced a website to commemorate the galleries 15th anniversary
2005 QA21 Vertically Challenged exhibition, Durham Museum - exhibition coordinator
01-06 Albany Gallery, Cardiff - graphic designer
2003 HOMELANDS publication - editor
03 - FIBRE.ART.WALES - webmaster
2002 Soc. Designer Craftsmen, 'Yellow Peril' - quilt image used in new publicity leaflet
2002 Urdd Eisteddfod, Cardiff - craft selector, textile art category
2002 Wales Fair, Hankyu Store, Osaka, Japan - craft workshops and exhibition
2002 Welsh Artist Of The Year, St David's Hall, Cardiff - judge, crafts section
2001 Inscape Bank, UK - artist profile for promotion/ advertising
2001 Fibre Art Wales - exhibitions secretary
2000 Atmosphere, NFA and California Fibers exhibition, Newport Museum - co-curator
1999 Fibre Art Wales - principal founder and Chairman
1997-04 Oriel Makers Gallery Ltd., Cardiff - Exhibitions secretary
95-96 Butetown History and Art Centre Community Quilt, Cardiff - artist in residence
94-97 24/60 All Square', Quilt Art European touring exhibition - curator
92-97 New Fibre Art - group Treasurer
1991 'Wales in Europe Through its Crafts', MGW exhibition, Brussels - exhibition coordinator/display
1991 Oriel Makers Gallery Ltd, Cardiff. Set up/opened gallery
86-91 Makers Guild in Wales, Old Library Craft Centre, Cardiff - display coordinator
85-88 Makers Guild in Wales - group Treasurer
1984 Makers Guild in Wales - founder member
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