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RUTH MCLEES - CV 20-04 BA (Hons) Fine Art 2:1 University of Wales Institute, Cardiff 20-01 Foundation Studies in Art and Design UWIC, Cardiff Further training: 2008 Apple Final Cut Pro Digital Editing Course FCP100, Cyfle, Cardiff 2007 Spellbinders community storyteller training. Severn Rd Centre, Cardiff 2007 Colour, drawing and Abstraction, Summer School, St Martin's Art College, London 2007 Digital Storytelling short course, Women's Arts Association, Cardiff 20-07 Craft Angels Network workshop facilitator training. Model House, Llantrisant Awards: 2008 Arts Council of Wales Project Grant Award 2008 Winner of People's Choice Award, Bute Space Gallery, Cardiff Bay 2004 UWIC Art History Prize 20-01 Distinction in Foundation Studies in Art and Design UWIC, Cardiff Commissions: 20-08 Corporate and private portrait commissions, Wales 2006 Artwork commission for Blighty Creations, London 2006 Portrait and photography for CD and promotional material for Andrea Beardshaw, singer, Cardiff 2005 Private portrait commissions, Canada 2005 Commissioned portrait of Catrin Finch, Royal Harpist to HRH Prince of Wales 2004 Corporate and private portrait commissions, London and Wales Exhibitions: 2009 Solo Exhibition, St David's Hall, Cardiff - solo show 2008 Faces and Scenes, The Severnshed, Bristol - solo show 2008 WonderCulture Designers Market, Capitol Centre, Cardiff for Cardiff Design Festival 2008 Second Wave, Bute Space Gallery, Cardiff (until September) 2008 Summer Show, Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff (until September) 2008 Annexe, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff 2008 Welsh Artist of the Year, St David's Hall, Cardiff 2008 New Wave, Bute Space Gallery, Cardiff 2007 The Sefton Open, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside 2007 The Summer Wash, Washington Gallery, Penarth 20-07 Group Christmas Show, Context Gallery, Cardiff 2006 Pretty Cool Things, Galeri Caernarfon, Caernarfon 2006 On Show, BBC Wales Broadcasting House, Cardiff - solo show 20-06 Mwnci Post Production Facilities, Cardiff - solo show 2005 Miss Demeanours, Oriel Capsule Gallery, Cardiff - solo show 2005 Wales Week - Fresh from Wales, La Tentation, Brussels 2004 Ruth McLees, Oriel Capsule Gallery, Cardiff - solo show 2004 UWIC Fine Art Degree Show, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff 2004 Heaven and Earth, Washington Gallery, Penarth 2004 On Show, BBC Wales Broadcasting House, Cardiff 20-04 Christmas Exhibition, Washington Gallery, Penarth 2003 New Artists, Washington Gallery, Penarth 2003 Royal Bath and West Show, Shepton Mallett, Somerset 2002 Hans Brinker Hotel Exhibition, Amsterdam, Holland Publications: 2008 Interview and article in Cardiff Living magazine 2008 Paintings featured Cardiff Life magazine 2007 Painting included in Cultural Enterprise 2008 calendar 2007 Featured on S4C TV programme Wedi 3 2006 'Buy of the Day' Marie Claire Magazine: 'Fashion for your Walls' Residencies: 2007 Artist in Residence, Cogan Primary School, South Wales Art Employment & Workshops: 2008 Workshop facilitator for Women's Workshop, Butetown 2008 Community Arts Workshop facilitator for Butetown Communities 1st 2008 Postcards from Home. Supporting artist and Digital Projection Co-ordinator for Public Art project run by Women's Arts Association, Bute Street, Cardiff 20-08 Workshop facilitator for children aged 7-12, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff 2007 Christmas workshops for the visually impaired and Alzheimer's patients at Bargoed House residential care home, Treharris 2007 Workshop facilitator for pre-school children and family groups, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff 2007 Workshop facilitator, Engage Cymru's national Children's Arts Day 20-08 Workshop facilitator for adults, community groups and disadvantaged young people, Model House Craft Centre, Llantrisant 2006 Artist for high-profile landscape design schemes. These include liaising with Landscape Architects (Tirlun) to create drawings for the Wrexham Football Club redevelopment by London-based firm MacNiven Cameron 2004 Monico Cinema Public Art Project in conjunction with Emma Price of CBAT. A series of films concerned with memory were made and projected onto the site of the old Monico Cinema in Rhiwbina, Cardiff Societies: FIBRE.ART.WALES | Igloo