Brief backstory
My earlier projects followed people who migrated toward myths, escapism, promised lands, and ideal futures. Over time I realised I wasn’t really interested in utopia itself, but in the human need to construct one.
So, I now have turned my focus on the present, on how identity is constructed and performed in contemporary life. The narrow space between who we are and how we function, not in another world, but how we survive this one.
Forthcoming Exhibitions
New project coming soon…
Short films
Western England 2033
>>> Boia Festival, Seion Chapel Vestry, St Davids, 2025.
There is really here
>>> Arthouse Crouch End, 159A Tottenham Lane, London. 2025.
>>> Tir a Mor festival, St Davids. 2025.
>>> Boia Festival, Seion Chapel Vestry, St Davids, 2024.
Solo Exhibitions
The Utopian Impulse
>>> INSERT Gallery, Wrexham School of Creative Arts, 2024.
>>> D-Unit, Bristol, 2024.
>>> Oriel y Parc, St Davids, 2024
Gwales
>>> Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, 2023.
>>> Oriel y Parc, St Davids, 2021
The Road to New York
>>> g39, Cardiff. 2015
>>> Oriel y Parc, St. Davids. 2015
Empire Kiosk
>>> British Museum, London. 2013
>>> ArcadeCardiff, Cardiff. 2013
>>> Oriel Q, Narberth, Cardiff. 2012
>>> Art in the Bar, Chapter, Cardiff. 2012
Interdomestic planetary
>>> Oriel Q, Narberth, Pembs. 2010
The tourist
>>> Room 10, Warpool Court Hotel, St. Davids, Pembs. 2009
Brightness, luminance, and confusion
>>> James Street Gallery, Narberth. 2007
Selected group exhibitions
Postcards from the Artist’s Studio, Split collective painting show, Both gallery, London, 2025
SPLIT, Split touring Split collective painting show, Dispensary Gallery, Wrexham, Cross Street Arts, Wigan, and Candid Arts Trust, London, 2025
Creatures of the Psyche, group Independents Biennial show with Anna Ketskemety, Vicky le Bon, Danny May, and Chiz Turnross, Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool, 2023
Gwales / Meld / The Betrayal Cycle, with Zillah Bowes and Joao Saramago, tactileBOSCH, Cardiff, 2022
Art the Arms Fair, Maverick Projects, Peckham, London. 2019
St Davids Music and Arts Festival, Ebenezer Chapel, St. Davids. 2019
Breaking out, Haverfordwest. 2018
Dazzle Cinema, School of Creative Arts, Wrexham Glyndŵr University. 2018
St Davids Music and Arts Festival, Ebenezer Chapel, St. Davids. 2017
Wrexham open, Undegun, Wrexham. 2017
Popty revisited, Oriel Q, Narberth. 2016
BLAST Aberafan, Tabernacl Newydd, Port Talbot. 2015
Made in Drefelin, Rhod, Carmarthenshire. 2014
Nepotism, Made in Roath, Cardiff. 2013
Becoming…, Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff. 2011
Welsh Artist of the Year Exhibition, St. Davids Hall, Cardiff. 2011
All Systems Go!. Departure Gallery, London. 2010
Satellite dibyniaeth. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. 2008
BOSSANOVA. tactileBOSCH, Cadff. 2008
Salvation. Walcot Chapel, Bath Fringe Visual Arts. 2008
Liverpool Biennial. 2002
National Eisteddfod, St. Davids, Pembs. 2001
Education
PGCE (Post 16) Pembrokeshire College. 2015
Masters Fine Art, Cardiff School of Art. 2008
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Liverpool School of Art. 1997
Published
Planet – The Welsh Internationalist (243), ‘Second Homes and a Forbidden Door’ 2022
New Confusion. Drawings, photographs and poems with Lily Zee Hughes. May 2020.
Planet – The Welsh Internationalist (219), ‘The Far Paradise’, August 2015
Western Mail, Weekend, ‘Fantastic, mesmerizing, confusing and inspiring…’, p. 24, 13 July 2013
a-n, ‘Bedwyr Williams: The Starry Messenger’, 6 June 2013
a-n, ‘Memory Foam: Flowers & Questions, Fischli & Weiss, A Retrospective’, 6 May 2013
Western Telegraph, ‘Sweet Salone’, 18 May, 2011
Press
Wales Arts Review, ‘Ben Lloyd’s Gwales: Reflections on an Island Utopia’, A. Grandvoinet, 28 Sept 2023.
Pembrokeshire Herald, ‘Exhibition examines the impact of second homes’, 2 July 2021.
County Echo, ‘Artist inspired by Quakers’ search for ‘The Far Paradise’’, 11 Sept 2015
Western Mail, ‘The Road to New York’, K. Price, 11 April 2015
Pitch, Radio Cardiff, 27 March 2014
Western Telegraph, ‘Artist to share his skills in war-torn Sierra Leone’, J. Hadley, p.7, 29 Dec 2010
Western Mail, ‘The Young Ones’, M. Thomas, 11 June 2010
South Wales Evening Post, ‘Bombing tales turned into art’, R. Davies, May 21 2010
Western Telegraph, ‘Artist hopes to start debate over his work’, K. Woodhouse, 22 April 2009
Planet – The Welsh Internationalist (issue 191), ‘Invisible Barriers’, T. Krikorian, p.119, Oct 2008
Liverpool Echo, ‘Art’s all right on the light’, K. Adair, 20 Dec 2002
Selected grants & awards
Arts Council Wales, Large Project grant for The Utopian Impulse, 2023
Arts Council Wales, Large Project grant for Gwales, 2020
Arts Council Wales, Large Project grant for The Road to New York, 2013
a-n, Go and See Bursary, Venice Biennale, 2013
Arts Council Wales, Project grant for Empire Kiosk, 2011
Pembrokeshire County Council, Support of the arts grant, 2010
Arts Council Wales, Project grant for The tourist, 2008
North West Arts Board, Project Grant, 2003
Liverpool Biennial, Commission, 2002
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