Bronwyn's CV
BRONWYN WILLIAMS-ELLIS. RCA
Workshop; Old Orchard
88a Walcot Street
Bath BA1 5BD, GB.
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 ceramic 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 ceramic sculpture for exhibition and hand decorated tiles to commission .
WORKS IN PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE 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.
Street art in Bath. 2 pigs designed and decorated for the "King Bladud's pigs' project. 2008
12 days of Christmas' Christmas tree of tiles' for 'the friends of the Victoria Art Gallery'. 2008
PRIVATE COMMISSIONS;
This forms the bulk of her work.
A separate sheet can be provided of completed commissions over the last 10 years,
She has exhibited since 1973.
EXHIBITIONSs since 1990;-
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1991'Ceramic Series' Aberwystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
1995 University of Glamorgan, S. Wales.
1998 Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Gwynedd, Wales
2001'Sea water' Royal Cambrian Academy
Bath Festival Studio show
2004 Land and sea' Oriel Plas Glyn- y- Weddw,
2007 Victoria Art gallery, Bath, BANES
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1990 Hitchcocks Gallery, Bath, BANES.
1991 International Potters Festival Aberwystwyth.
1991-3 '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.
2006 ”Bodyworks’ University of Wales Aberwystyth. Mid Wales.,
“Looking back Looking Forward” the Chapel Row gallery Bath, Banes/.
“Batik transitions” Batik Guild – travelling show -inc;- Gloucester,Worthing, Williamson - Birkenhead, Museums.
TEACHING/LECTURES;-
Bronwyn lectures in the history of tiles and architectural ceramics from the earliest times to the 18th century.
She has done practical demonstrations and lectures on tile technique etc. at ; Bath Academy Corsham, Cardiff Art College, University of Glamorgan, Lancaster Art College, International Potters Festival Aberwystwyth. the Blackthorn centre.
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.