Approved: 23.01.2019

Gweni Llwyd

Artist, Event organiser, Film-maker, Researcher

Approved: 23.01.2019

Gweni Llwyd (she/her) is a Welsh artist based in Wales and Rotterdam. Her practice reflects on the expansive complexities of everyday life across tactile and digital realms. By using first-hand and found video footage, drawing, game engines and physical materials, her works often blur the distinction between what is here now and what exists elsewhere in time. Throughout her work there is a playful

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  • Location: Caernarfon, Wales

Artist Statement

Gweni Llwyd (she/her) is a Welsh artist based in Wales and Rotterdam. Her practice reflects on the expansive complexities of everyday life across tactile and digital realms. By using first-hand and found video footage, drawing, game engines and physical materials, her works often blur the distinction between what is here now and what exists elsewhere in time. Throughout her work there is a playful weaving of personal, collective and more-than-human experiences together as one, highlighting living as being part of a shared metabolism.

CV & Education

EDUCATION
2014 - 2017 B.A. (Hons) Fine Art: First, Cardiff Metropolitan University
2013 - 2014 Diploma in Art and Design Foundation Studies: Distinction, Coleg Menai, Bangor

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Upcoming: Anti Beta, Galeri, Caernarfon (April)
2018
ABF End of Fellowship Exhibition: Gweni Llwyd & Anna Rogers, Cardiff School of Art and Design (October)
2017
Fuzzy Bunny: Gweni Llwyd & Carlota No´brega, Spit and Sawdust, Cardiff (October)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018

Gripping Wrists, LUX Scotland with Tendency Towards, Aberdeen (December)
Fflimiau’r STAMP, Galeri, Caernarfon (September)
Y Lle Celf, The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Y Senedd, Cardiff (August)
Toilet Exhibition, Ruin, Cardiff (July)
Oriel Davies Open, Oriel Davies, Newtown (June)
Castell 03: To The Sea, Caernarfon Castle and Town (June)
Sightseers, g39, Cardiff (April)
North Wales Contemporary, Caernarfon (March)
Juncture, Cardiff School of Art and Design, (February)
2017
Lost Vegas Hotel, tactileBOSCH, Capet Club Cardiff (December)
NOVA Biennial Welsh Arts Prize, Royal Cambrian Academy (November) Aberystwyth Arts Centre (January 2018), Arcade Cardiff (April 2018)
RAT TRAP (3), Cathays Cons Club (November)
The Hinge Which Separates & Connects, Made in Roath, Cardiff (October)
79, Made in Roath, Cardiff (October)
UNIT(E) WiV Half Term Show, g39, Cardiff, (July)
CARNafan, Gefail yr Ynys, Caernarfon (July)
You Can Touch This, isthisitisthisit.com, curated by Kelly Culver (July)
Degree Show, Cardiff School of Art and Design (May)
Fun Show 4, Arcade Cardiff (May)
Paper Works, MADE, Cardiff (March)

AWARDS
2018
Young Artist Scholarship, The National Eisteddfod of Wales (August)
2017
Brian Ross Memorial Award, Arts Council of Wales (February)
Young Artist Award, NOVA Biennial (November)
Helen Gregory Memorial Trust Purchase Prize in Fine Art (June)
2016
Dulcie Mayne Stephens Memorial Trust Prize in Fine Art

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2017 - 2018

Artists Benevolent Fund Step Change Fellowship, Cardiff School of Art and Design 2016 The Royal Hotel Residency, Llandudno

TALKS
2018

Rat Trap at a-n Assembly Cardiff (November)
Going Nowhere: An Early Career Artist Survival Guide, g39, Cardiff (October)
Cardiff School of Art and Design Professional Practice Lectures: Gweni Llwyd (October) Castell 03: To The Sea Artist Talk, Balaclafa Caernarfon (July)
NOVA Talks 3: Gweni Llwyd, Arcade Cardiff (May)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019

Rat Trap, Various locations, South Wales area (2016 - present)
2017
TOUCH, Llandudno Library

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019

Visual Art Co-ordinator, RawFfest, Wales Millennium Centre (December 2018 - April 2019)
Artes Mundi 8 Exhibition Guide, National Museum Cardiff (October 2018 - February 2019) 
Workshop Leader, Illumine Project, Peak, Crickhowell (November - January)
Self-Employed Artist (2017 - present)
Project Co-ordinator, Rat Trap Cardiff (2016 - present)
2018
Studio Assistant for Ivor Davies (September - November)
Artist Benevolent Fund Step Change Fellowship (October 2017 - 2018)
2017
Wales in Venice Invigilator Plus, Venice Biennale (November)
Visual Art Curator Intern and Workshop Facilitator, RawFfest, Venue Cymru Llandudno (June - September)
Festival Assistant and Social Media Translator, Diffusion Festival, Cardiff (May)
Event Assistant and Performer, Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff (April)
Conference Assistant, Artes Mundi, National Museum Cardiff (Februrary)