Art CV

Forthcoming Exhibitions

New project coming soon…

Short films

>>> Boia Festival, Seion Chapel Vestry, St Davids, 2025.

Western England 2033

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

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