Jan Beeny

Ceramics

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Home address:


(all correspondence to):
8 Grenville Road
Penylan
Cardiff
CF23 5BP


Studio:


Butown Artists’ Studios
54b Bute Street
Cardiff Bay

Education

1981-2
1982-3
1983-6
1987-8
1996
Intermediate Course Rochdale College of Art.
Foundation Course Rochdale College of Art.
B.A. (Hons) Design/Ceramics Cardiff Art College.
M.A. Design/Ceramics Cardiff Art College.
P.G.G.C.E. Cert Ed. F.E. Stage 1 Howardian Community Education Centre.

Awards

1988 D.E.S. Bursary

Membership

The Craft Potters Association – Professional Member.
Makers Guild in Wales – (Trustee and Exhibitions Officer 1994-2000).
Makers Guild in Wales L.T.D. – (Director 1994-2000).
Butetown Artists.

Group Exhibitions 2004

Fire Feathers and Fleece
Showcase Exhibition
Fire Feathers and Fleece
Nature in Clay
Animalia III
Christmas Animal Exhibition

Model House Craft and Design Centre, Llantrisant
Contemporary Ceramics, Marshall Street, London
Makers Gallery, Cardiff
Walford Mill Craft Centre, Dorset
Craft Renaissance Gallery, Usk
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth

Group Exhibitions 2003

Artisan II Fair
MGW Summer
Exhibition
Artist of the Year Exhibition
Naked
Showcase Exhibition
Out of the Ark
CPA Autumn Fair
Christmas Crackers
Cats
Christmas Exhibition

Jersey (also judged the craft exhibits)
Craft Renaissance, Usk

St David’s Hall, Cardiff
Laburnum Ceramics Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria
Rufford Craft Centre, Nottingham
Contemporary Craftsman, Monmouth
Oxford
Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
Laburnum Ceramics Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria
Wine Street Gallery, Devizes

My work has been exhibited in the following galleries:

St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life
St Donats Arts Centre
Bay Art Gallery
Dukes Oak
Chapel of Art
The Lion Gallery
Shire Hall Gallery
The Arc
Ferrars Gallery
Up Front Gallery
Candover Gallery
The Bank Gallery
Felsted Studio
The Gibbs Gallery
Chalk Farm Gallery
The Gallery Upstairs
Black Swan Gallery
Workshop Gallery
The Model House Craft and Design Centre
Handel House Gallery
Glynn Vivian Museum and Art Gallery
Llanover Hall Arts Centre
Oriel Makers
Beatrice Royal Gallery
Red Gallery, Southsea
Broadway Modern
Church House Designs
The Rostra Gallery
Pam Schomberg Gallery
Firbob and Peacock
Simon Drew Gallery
Paper Tiger
Artifex
Laburnum Ceramics Gallery
The Old Bakehouse


Cardiff
Llantwit Major
Cardiff Bay
Sandbach, Cheshire
Criccieth (recently closed due to retirement)
Leominster
Stafford
Chester
Ashby-de-la-Zouche
Penrith
Hampshire
Chobham, Surrey
Felsted, Essex
Canterbury, Kent
London
Henley-in-Arden
Frome, Somerset
Chepstow
Llantrisant

Devizes
Swansea

Cardiff
Cardiff
Hampshire
Hampshire
Broadway, Worcestershire
Congresbury, Bristol
Bath
Colchester, Essex
Knutsford
Dartmouth
Harrogate
Sutton Coldfield
Penrith, Cumbria
Chichester, West Sussex

Galleries Currently Showing Work

Craft in the Bay
The Contemporary Craftsman
The Long Curve Gallery
Out of the Blue
Brewery Arts Centre
Laburnum Ceramics Gallery

Walford Mill Craft Centre

Cardiff
Monmouth

Chipping Campden
Marazion, Penzance
Cirencester
Penrith, Cumbria

Stone Lane, Wimborne, Dorset

Other Activities:

1998 Organised the first Makers Guild in Wales Fashion Show for ‘Craft in the Bay’.
1999 Team member for the South Wales Potters stand at the Ceramic Millenium, Amsterdam.
1999 Demonstator and exhibitor, promoting craft from Wales, at the Festival of the Regions, Stutgart, Germany
1998-2000 Curated eight exhibitions for the M.G.W. Craft Centre - Craft in the Bay (including ‘Fired Works’)

Work Illustrated in Publications

June 1986, July and August 1989 Western Mail. September/October 1986 Ceramic Review. 1992 Creft.
March 1993 Practical Gardening. December 1997 Crafts. 1998 ‘Practical Solutions for Potters’ by Gill Bliss,
February 1999 In Britain - the magazine for the British Tourist Authority, 1999 Studio Potters’ Marks by Robert Fournier. 2000 “Potters” CPA publication.. 2002 Country Living Magazine.

Demonstrations/Lectures

Model House Craft and Design Centre, Llantrisant.
Brecon Mountain Centre, Brecon.
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
Llantrisant Arts Society, Llantrisant.
C.P.A. Christmas Fair 1998, Bloxham.
2000 Chiltern Potters Association – Lecture/Demonstration. Potters open day.
2002 North Wales Potters – Lecture/workshop day.
2003 St Davids Hall, Cardiff.

Residencies / Fellowships / Community Arts Projects

1987 Illustrator at Cardiff City Farm.
1988 Short Residency - B.A. (Hons) Ceramics Department, Wolverhampton Polytechnic.
1989 Craft Fellowship at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Gowerton, Swansea.
1993 ‘Valleys Live’ Ceramic Mural Project -Ten murals made by school children from ten schools across South Wales.
1998 ‘Hyper Action’, Roath Village Web Project- Community arts and technology Millennium project, ceramic sculpture.

Workshops / Visiting Craftsperson in Schools and Galleries

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea.
Primary and Secondary Schools in West, Mid and South Glamorgan
Youth and Adults with learning difficulties in West Glamorgan.
Model House Craft and Design Centre, Llantrisant.
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff.
After school pottery club, Corpus Christi High School, Cardiff.
I.N.S.E.T. for primary and secondary teachers in West and Mid Glamorgan and Dyfed.

Adult and Youth Community Education

Since 1989. Ceramic and Sculpture classes in South Glamorgan (Howardian, Radyr and Llanover Hall Centres).

Further Education Lecturing 1991-2001

G.C.S.E. Art (endorsed Ceramics option), A level Art.
B.T.E.C. 1st Design/G.N.V.Q. Intermediate, Gwent Tertiary College, Crosskeys.
B.T.E.C. G.A.D. years 1 and 2 and special needs groups Coleg Glan Hafren, Cardiff
A Level Technology, Art Access Course University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
Art Foundation Course and G.N.V.Q. Advanced Bridgend College.

Higher Education Lecturing – visiting lecturer


1988 Ceramics B.A. (Hons) Course, Wolverhampton Polytechnic.
1989 Ceramics B.A. (Hons) Course, U.W.I.C.
1996-99 Ceramics H.N.D./ B.A. Course, Swansea Institute of Higher Education.

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