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Above:
Head I, 2015
Signed and dated verso
Oil on gesso on board
7 1/8 x 5 in, 17.9 x 12.7 cm
Prizes and Awards
2009 Wrexham International Print Biennial, Judge; Young
Brit Awards, Judge
2008 Honorary Fellowship, Hereford College of Art
2007 Owain Glyndwr Award
2007 Honorary Fellowship UWIC
2006 Awarded MBE; Creative Wales Award, Arts
Council of Wales
2003 Winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize; 'Women in
Culture', Welsh Woman of the Year Awards;
Second Prize, BP National Portrait Award; Winner
of the BBC Wales Visual Art Award
1993 First Prize, Hunting/Observer Art Prizes
1992 Gold Medal for Fine Art, National Eisteddfod
1991 First Prize, Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
1989 First Prize, Wales Open, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Works in Collections
Arts Council of England
Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth
BBC Wales
National Museum, Cardiff
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Contemporary Art Society of Wales
New Hall College, Cambridge
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport
Glynn Vivian Museum & Art Gallery, Swansea
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Jerwood Foundation
London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London
Private Collections in Britain, Ireland, France,
Belgium, USA, New Zealand and Australia
Documentary
2013 What Do Artists Do All Day: Shani Rhys James,
BBC Four
Back cover :
Portrait with Allium and Acanthus, 2014
Signed and dated verso
Oil on linen
60 1/8 x 39 5/8 in, 152.7 x 100.6 cm
Catalogue photography by Gareth Lloyd Hughes
