Clive Hicks-Jenkins: A Retrospective

7 May - 20 August 2011

This exhibition celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Clive Hicks-Jenkins, described by Robert Macdonald as ‘one of the most powerful figurative painters in Wales’.

Born in Newport in 1951, Clive Hicks-Jenkins was a choreographer and theatre director but he has devoted his time to painting since the 1990s. His work is now held in all the principal public collections in Wales and he is a Royal Cambrian Academician and an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University.

The exhibition showcases artist's books and works that reflect his interest in a sense of place and in theatrical still-lifes of familiar objects.  It also includes drawings inspired by the Mari Lwyd and paintings on the 'Temptations of Solitude'. His use of puppet-like maquettes is also explored in recent work concerned with stories of the miraculous.

Responses by poets to the paintings can be read or heard around the gallery or found in the accompanying volume, The Book of Ystwyth.

Gallery Talk by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Monday 25 July 1:15 p.m.

Clive Hicks-Jenkins Offical Opening of Exhibition


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