Curriculum Vitae

Date & Place of Birth: 13.04.54. Caterham, Surrey,UK
Education: 1971-1975 Foundation & BA Honours in Graphic Design at the London College of Printing, SE1

Exhibits regularly at The Albany Gallery in Cardiff, The Brownston Gallery in Devon, Custom House Gallery in Cardigan, and in the following Pembrokeshire galleries:
The St David’s Studio Gallery, Art Matters Gallery in Tenby and The Narberth Gallery.

RECENT SOLO & FEATURED ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2004 Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven
2003 ‘The Breath of Nature’, Plas Glyn y Weddw Gallery, North Wales
2003 Art Matters Gallery, Tenby
2003,00 Albany Gallery, Cardiff
2002 West Wales Arts Centre, Fishguard
2000 Washington Gallery, Penarth
2000 Ogilvy & Estill, Conway
1999 Aberystwyth Arts Centre
1999 Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff
Forthcoming solo show 2007 – Art Matters Gallery

RECENT MIXED EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2006 SGFA Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London SE1
2006 ‘Spirit of Llyn’ competition, Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Llanbedrog
2006 ‘Welsh Artist of the Year’ competition, St David’s Hall, Cardiff
2006 ‘Spring 2006’, The Brownston Gallery, Modbury, Devon
2006 ‘Equus - a celebration of the horse’, The Castle, Margam Park
2006 ‘Lines and Strata’ Oriel Mwldan, Theatr Mwldan Cardigan 2005 ‘Sea Britain’ Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, North Wales
2004 Oriel Aberteifi, Cardigan
2003 Custom House, Cardiff
2003,02,01,00 Originals Gallery, Stow on the Wold 2003,02,01,00 Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Llanbedrog 2003 Drawing Biennale, Queens Hall Gallery, Narberth
2002 ‘New Welsh Landscape’ The Contemporary Craftsman, Monmouth
2002,01,00,99 West Wales Arts Centre, Fishguard
2002,01,00,99,98,97 Showcase Wales, The Tabernacle, MOMA Wales, Machynlleth 2001 Hotbath Gallery, Bath –SGFA
2001 Brecknock Museum, Brecon - WSW
2001 National Botanic Garden of Wales
2001,00,99,94 Royal Cambrian Academy, Conway
2000 Affordable Art Fair, London
2000,99,98 Washington Gallery, Penarth
2000,98 Wales Drawing Biennale I & II
2000,99 Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland

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PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA COVERAGE
2004 One Wales magazine, Arriva Transport
2004 Keith Johnson, Pembrokeshire Life magazine – colour feature
2003 Alun Prichard, North Wales Evening Post
2002 Hannah Jones, Western Mail – colour feature
2002 Tivyside Advertiser, exhibition review
2002 Karen Price, Western Mail, exhibition review
2001 BBC2 Double Yellow arts programme
2000 Penny David, Art of the Garden, exhibition review
2000 Karin Hiscock, Contemporary Interpretations, exhibition review
2000 Art Review
2000 Art World Directory
2000 Who’s Who in Art
1999 The Guardian – exhibition review, Jonathan Jones
1999 Chelsea Art fair – catalogue
1999 Paint Landscapes – art book published by RotoVision
1998 HTV Wales, Primetime arts programme
1998 Western Mail - feature
1997 Carmarthenshire Life – colour feature
1990 HTV Wales, Primetime arts programme

PURCHASES
1999 British Embassy, Brazil
1999 Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust & Abergavenny Facilities Ltd
1997 Arts Council of Wales

AWARDS
1998 Acco UK Ltd Prize, Artsfest Fishguard
1997 Daler Rowney painting prize, Artsfest Fishguard
1996 Highly Commended – Aspects of Wales, Pontardawe Art awards
1993 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Award
1991 Highly commended – Wolfson College, Oxford University

TEACHING 1989 – 2003
Outreach tutor Aberystwyth University –Painting & Drawing course
MOMA Wales / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – Life Drawing workshop
Oriel Myrddin Carmarthen – Life Drawing course
Workshops and Adult Community Education courses in Life Drawing and Painting & Drawing, throughout Pembrokeshire & Ceredigion
Mentoring – Professional Practice and Presentation

CURATING AND CO-ORDINATING
Secondary schools art workshops: Royal Academy – Life Drawing,
Mugenkyo – Taiko Drumming & Art workshop
Cardigan Open Studios – annual summer event
Art in the Garden – open air sculpture exhibition, Llangrannog
The NGS Millenium Art of the Garden – painting exhibition, UCW Lampeter University

WEBSITE
www.andieclay.com 10/2006

press reviews

“ The 18th-century Welsh painter Richard Wilson painted Snowdonia in a sublime style that fuelled an international cult of mountain scenery.

Subsequently, like mountaineers training in Snowdonia before attempting Everest, artists such as Turner painted Welsh peaks before tackling the Alps.

Today artists make models of mountains in art galleries or show scary videos, but Clay paints the mountains as an almost abstract storm of colour in his (sic) West Wales landscapes.”
Jonathan Jones, The Guardian

“It’s not that she seeks to aspire to echo the ever changing and dynamic forces of nature. But somewhere in the deep layers of her work, Andie Clay captures something as meaningfully lucid and characteristically erosive.

It might be in the way she layers her work in pastels which are underlaid with acrylics, the colours shouting for attention even when capturing the darkest day.

It’s their movement and, paradoxically their stillness which transports a viewer into a colourful cacophony of visual movement, a noisy dance into the complex world of the Welsh landscape.”
Hannah Jones, The Western Mail

“Andie Clay is an artist to be taken seriously – her work is to be enjoyed and celebrated.”
Sybil Crouch, Taliesin Arts Centre

10/2006

ANDIE CLAY

Artist’s Statement

Living surrounded by the dramatic coastal and mountain areas of West Wales has had a profound influence on me. In my colourful expressionistic paintings and drawings of land, sea and sky I am continually seeking to express my emotional response to the power and spirit of nature.

Exploring the rhythmical processes and cycles of nature, its need for balance, and how to listen to its spirit and feel its energy, are also areas explored in my current work, and have direct reference to my long term study and practice of Tai Chi.

I explore my chosen subject through making drawings on location initially, striving to capture the essence of my subject, then back in my studio I develop and distil my ideas into finished pieces, often working in series.

Favoured methods use acrylic, pastel, ink, graphite and mixed media. The expressive use of colour and energetic mark making are vitally important to me, as is my continued practice of drawing which for me I liken to the necessity of playing scales for a concert pianist.

10/2006