Bronwyn's CV
Bronwyn Williams-Ellis. RCA
Workshop; Old Orchard
88a Walcot Street
Bath BA1 5BD
Telephone; 01225 460805
Graduate; 1975 BA (Hons.) Ceramics. Cardiff College of Art.
1983 MA Ceramics. Cardiff College of Art.
Fellowship Bath Academy of Art, Corsham.
Fellow; Royal Cambrian Academy 1999.
1975-1983. Established workshop in North Wales to design and produce one off, high fired large scale sculpture and garden ware.
1977-80 also designed slate artifacts for J.W Greaves and Sons, Blaenau Ffestiniog.
1986 Established studio workshop in Bath, producing one off sculptural pieces and earthenware tiles to commission; from small panels to designs that cover an entire room. Continues to work in Bath producing and ceramic sculpture for exhibition and hand decorated tiles to commission .
Works in Public Spaces
Ceramic mural for Cwmbran Shopping Centre, Gwent.
Ceramic plaque to William Madocks, at Portmeirion, North Wales.
Series of painted murals for Portmeirion, Gwynedd.
Large glazed sculpture for Greaves and Sons Ltd; Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.
Restoration of a series of traditional murals at Yeun Dun, New Territories, for the government of Hong Kong.
2 large tile commissions for the hotel restaurant at Portmeirion, N. Wales.
Brick clay mural 19m x 2m [temporary] constructed at the International Potters Festival Aberwystwyth. Mid Wales 1991.
Tile commission 'Parrots' for large jacuzzi and shower. Poolmead Centre, RNID, Bath, BANES.
9 Swan panels. Musgrove Park Hospital,Taunton, Somerset.
Series of 8 parrot panels. Yspbyty Glan Clwyd (Hospital), Conwy,N.Wales.
4 Fish tile walls. Castell Deudraeth, Portmeirion, Gwynedd.
Private commissions;
A separate sheet can be provided of completed commissions over the last 10 years, this forms the bulk of her work.
She has exhibited since 1973.
Exhibitions since 1990;-
One-person exhibitions
1991'Ceramic Series' Aberwystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
1995 University of Glamorgan, S. Wales.
1998 Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Gwynedd, Wales
2004 Oriel Plas Glyn- y- Weddw,
2007 Victoria Art gallery, Bath, BANES
Group Exhibitions;
1990 Hitchcocks Gallery, Bath, BANES.
1991 International Potters Festival Aberwystwyth.
199-3 'Fired Earth'-1000 years of Tiles in Europe (Touring Exhibition).
1993 Criccieth Festival, Glyn-y-Weddw Gallery, North Wales.
1994 Bath Fringe Festival, 'open' workshop and exhibition.Bath, BANES
1995 Plas Tan -Y- Bwlch Snowdonia Field Study Centre, Gwynedd,
N. Wales Visual Arts weekend, Guest artist + exhibition.
1997 Six Chapel Row, Bath.
1998 Chapel of Art, Criccieth, North Wales .
Tremayne Applied Arts, St Ives, Cornwall.
Strand Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Six Chapel Row, Bath .
1999 "Wellsprings". Hot Bath Gallery Bath.
"4 come to St. Ives" Tremayne Applied Art, St. Ives.
2000 Oriel Plas Glyn-Y -Weddw,
2001 "Feat of clay" Chapel of Art , Criccieth, Gwynedd.
2002 125 Gallery, Bathford, Bath.
2003 Chapel of Art Criccieth,Gwynedd.
2005 Albany Gallery, Cardiff, Wales.
2006 Six Chapel Row, Bath.
2007 Batik Transitions, Batik Guild travelling exhibition.
2007 Moreton Hall, Nr. Oswestry, Salop
Teaching/Lectures;-
Bronwyn has lectured on the history of tiles and architectural ceramics -from the earliest times to the 18th century, also practical demonstrations on tile techniques at ; Bath Academy, Cardiff College of Art, University of Glamorgan, Lancaster Art College, International Potters Festival Aberwystwyth. BRSLI. Bath.
Publications;
Her tilework appears in the following;-
'Fired Earth 1000 years of Tiles in Europe', A Scarborough Art Gallery Touring Exhibition catalogue, edited by Hans van Lemmen and John Malam, Richard Dennis Publications, Tile & Architectural Ceramic Society, 1991.
'Decorating with Tiles' by Elizabeth Hilliard, Pavilion Books Ltd 1993, produced in association with 'Fired Earth'.
'Ceramics and Print' by Paul Scott 'Ceramic Handbook', A&C Black 1994.
'Tile Style' Gill Blake, Quarto 1996.
'Practical Solutions for Potters' by Gill Bliss, Sterling/Silver 1998.
"20th. century British Tiles" by Chris Blanchett. Schiffer 2006.
"Batik Transitions , from classic to contemporary" (Cat.) Diane Gaffney,Batik Guild. 2006.