Bethan works across drawing, installation, investigation and
design.

A heartfelt sense of place is important to her, as is a rickety
frameworkof literary and historical detail. New nature writing and
old haunts loom large.

Bethan in currently represented by Bearspace Gallery, London

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Education

MA Ceramics and Glass
Personal tutor Alison Britton OBE
Royal College of Art, 2010

BDes Three Dimensional Design, First class honours with distinction.
Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006

Blaker Akershus College, Norway, BA Spring term 2002

Selected Exhibitions

2012
QEST Crafting Excellence - Fortnum & Mason

2011
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Touring throughout 2012
Postcards From Europe - Wem Town Hall, Shropshire
Fresh at The British Ceramics Biennial - Former Spode Factory, Stoke-On-Trent
Stick-Up in collaboration with Anna Francis - Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent

2010
Collaborative work with Noemie Goudal – HotShoe Gallery, Clerkenwell & Galleria Uno Pia Uno, Milan.
SHOW1 – The Henry Moore Gallery, RCA
Mini exhibition – Kensington Plaza Hotel, London. Touring Detroit, Singapore, Copenhagen, Belfast
Oberon Illustration Awards – Seminar Galleries, RCA (& 2009)

2009
Einfall – The Freud Museum, London
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2008
Mint , London
Rhuthin Craft Centre
Dundee Contemporary Arts

2007
Origin – Somerset House
UK Craft & Design – The Peel Gallery, Houston, Texas
200 Years: Slavery Now – The Bluecoat Display Centre
The Devils in the Detail – The Hub Gallery, Lincolnshire.
Firing Thoughts: Exploring the relationship between ceramics and drawing – MMU Special Collections

2006
New Designers Showcase - Contemporary Applied Arts

2005
Transfer – A MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) exhibition at Psyche Department Store.
New Faces – The Crafts Council, Islington

Selected Comissions

2012
Town Hall Artworks, Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal Green. Supported by Artsadmin.

2011
The Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851

2010
Boxed first edition of prints relating to The Wild Places – The author Robert MacFarlane
Twelve hand-painted botanical dessert plates – Adrian Sassoon

2007
'Two-egg twins' Jar – Lucy May Schofield

2004
'I Have Never Seen A Bowerbird' beakers – Junko Mori

Selected Private and Public Collections

Adrian Sassoon, dealer in 18th century French Porcelain and contemporary craft
The Grainer Collection of Contemporary British Studio Ceramics, US
The Harris Museum, Preston
Islington Mill, Salford
James Beighton, Curator at MIMA
Special Collections, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Residencies

Late summer 2012
Street House Archaeological dig, Loftus - Part of Rednile's Factory Nights

2009
Royal Crown Derby Factory

Awards

2010
The John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Prize
Highly commended

2008
The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust – MA Ceramics and Glass at the RCA

2007
The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust

2006
Arts Council England Grants For The Arts – Origin
New Designers Contemporary Applied Arts Award
The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust – Bursary for a short research trip to St Petersburg.

Selected Publications

2012
Nine Lives, Teleri Lloyd-Jones. Crafts issue 234

2011
Profile by Chris Fite-Wassilak for the Jerwood Visual Arts Blog
Postcards From Europe
Botany - Kasvitiede issue, HESA Inprint

2010
RCA SHOW review, Teleri Lloyd-Jones. Crafts issue 225
Tim Parsons – Imperfectionism

2008
Fragiles – Die Gestalten Verlag

2007
an-magazine – Review of Raw exhibition

2006
Crafts – Feature by James Beighton

2005
Ceramic Review – Setting Out

Further experience

2012
Visiting teacher, Francis Holland Schools

2011
Manifold pilot project, working with students at Hackney Free and Parochial School

2010
Founder member of Manifold group studio, East London
Exhibition design and facilitation, RCA SHOW1, London
Design, draughtsmanship and consultancy at Willer

2009
Dissertation entitled Towards an Ending (Tacita Dean: Processes of imagination and memory), High Pass
Exhibition design and facilitation, EINFALL at the Freud Museum, London

2008
Guest artist/speaker for audio guides and short films at the Decorative Art Collection, The Harris Museum

2007
Two sessions at Start in Salford, teaching basic ceramic techniques to students of BA Occupational Therapy
Set up and ran the North West Creatives showcasing project for Urbis, Manchester
Interactive mural for the foyer of the Urbis building, Manchester
Adult surface decoration workshop relating to Raw exhibition at Manchester Craft and Design Centre
Talk given to Bachelor of Design students on my practice, at Manchester Metropolitan University

2005
Two days working with adults with severe learning difficulties. Game Leigh Farm, Derbyshire