Exhibition
Mary Lloyd Jones @ 90
7 Sep 2024 – 6 Oct 2024
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- Roath Park Hall
- Bangor Street
- Cardiff
Wales - CF243NA
- United Kingdom
"My aim is that my work should reflect my identity, my relationship with the land, an awareness of history, and the treasure of our literary and oral traditions. I search for devices that will enable me to create multilayered works."
About
Now in her ninth decade, Mary Lloyd Jones is one of Wales' most established and much-loved artists. Born in Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion in 1934, Mary trained at Cardiff College of Art and has exhibited widely since the mid 60's.Inspired by the landscape she worked on as a young girl with her parents, Mary's work is a celebration of the rural environment and her roots. Her work expresses her deep connection to Wales and the idea of cynefin; a sense of belonging and attachment to a particular place. This sense of place is further strengthened by her own Welsh-language cultural inheritance.
She is a painter who uses abstraction to explore landscape, culture, history and identity. Her use of early alphabets, specifically the bardic alphabet of the 18th Century Welsh Bard, Iolo Morganwg 'Coelbren', and Ogham script is a reference to the otherness of Welshness. Prominent features in her work are the traces and scars left by our ancestors and of industry.
Mary is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Carmarthen and the University of Aberystwyth. She also holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wales, Cardiff, and is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Over the years she has worked as an artist-in-residence in Scotland, Ireland, United States, India, Italy, Spain and France. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collection including the National Museum and Galleries of Wales and the National Library of Wales.
The vibrant, energetic and colourful works in this exhibition celebrate Mary's career in painting. Now in her 90th decade she is truly the custodian of her cultural heritage.
