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	Joint Exhibition by Sarah Ball and Meri Wells Enlarge Location : Oriel Tegfryn, North Wales Start Date : Fri 09/03/2012 00:00 End Date : Wed 28/03/2012 00:00 This is the first joint exhibition by Sarah Ball and Meri Wells at Oriel Tegfryn, and Meri’s first major exhibition in Wales. It promises to be an innovative and exciting show. Sarah Ball was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire in 1965 and studied illustration at Newport Art College. She spent several years working as an illustrator, and was much in demand, popular with clients such as the Royal National Theatre. Since moving to Monmouthshire in 1996, she has concentrated on creating beautifully atmospheric and intriguing paintings. Her work concerns the visual language of the storyteller, as she explains; “my paintings are inspired by memory and childhood. They are based on found photography and draw on sources as various as Victorian postcards, police mugshots and nature photography. The portraits are re-cast, becoming the characters in imagined scenarios.” Since completing her MFA at Bath Spa University in 2005, Sarah has exhibited widely and has been shortlisted for several awards, including University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize in 2006 and 2008, Welsh Artist of the Year in 2007 and 2009, and for the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, London in 2009. Meri Wells was born in 1946 and studied Art at Sutton and Epsom Schools of Art before moving to Aberystwyth to continue her education in Art and Drama. She settled near Machynlleth, mid Wales, where she continues to live and work. She is a ceramic sculptor who produces raku and wood-fired figurative sculptures from clay, which she often digs locally. Her curious figures – part human, part animal or bird seem otherworldly, and yet suggest emotions and tensions that lie under the surface of all human relationships. She says of her creations; “The small ceramic figures come out of the hedge that I can see from the window. They march past, reviving forgotten imagery of childhood stories and our cultural myths. I try to draw them in that first fleeting glimpse.” Meri is a well established and highly influential ceramic artist. She is a National Advisor to the Arts Council of Wales, and was elected to both the Royal Cambrian Academy and the International Academy of Ceramics in 2007. O R I E L T E G F R Y N CADNANT ROAD MENAI BRIDGE YNYS MÔN LL59 5EW Tel: 01248 715128 tegfryn@artwales.com WWW.ARTWALES.COM Hon yw’r arddangosfa gyntaf o waith Sarah Ball a Meri Wells yn Oriel Tegfryn, a sioe gyntaf bwysig Meri yng Nghymru. Arddangosfa gyffrous bydd hi, yn llawn gwaith gwreiddiol ac unigryw. Ganwyd Sarah Ball yn Rotherham yn swydd Dde Efrog ym 1965 ac fe astudiodd ddarlunio yng Ngholeg Celf Casnewydd. Treuliodd nifer o flynyddoedd yn gweithio fel darlunydd ar gyfer cwmniau adnabyddus, megis Theatr Frenhinol Cenedlaethol. Ers symud i Sir Fynwy ym 1996, mae Sarah wedi canolbwyntio ar greu peintiadau dirgel a phrydferth. Mae ei gwaith yn ymwneud ag atgofion ag iaith weledol y storïwr, dywed am ei gwaith; “Maent wedi eu seilio ar ffotograffiaeth a chymysgedd o ffynhonell weledol, megis cardiau post Fictoraidd, lluniau proffil yr heddlu a ffotograffiaeth natur. Yn fy mheintiadau, mae’r portreadau yn cael eu hail osod ac yn datblygu’n gymeriadau mewn sefyllfaoedd dychmygol.” Ers cwblhau MFA ym Mhrifysgol Bath Spa yn 2005, mae Sarah wedi arddangos ei gwaith yn eang, ac enwebwyd hi ar gyfer Gwobr Bwrcas Prifysgol Morgannwg yn 2006 a 2008, gwobr Artist y Flwyddyn Cymru yn 2007 a 2009 yn ogystal ag Arddangosfa Gwobr 'Threadneedle' yn Llundain yn 2009. Ganwyd Meri Wells ym 1946, ac astudiodd Celf yn Ysgolion Celf Sutton ac Epsom, cyn symud i Aberystwyth i astudio Celf a Drama. Ymgartrefodd ger Machynlleth yn y canolbarth, lle mae’n byw ac yn gweithio hyd heddiw. Cerflunydd cerameg yw Meri, sy’n defnyddio prosesau tanio raku a tan. Mae hi’n creu cerfluniau ffigurol gan ddefnyddio clai, a ychydig ohono'n glai â ganfyddwyd yn lleol. Mae'r creaduriaid - yn rhan ddynol, rhan anifail neu aderyn, yn ymddangos yn arallfydol, ac eto mae pob un yn awgrymu emosiynau a thensiwn sy'n gorwedd dan arwyneb pob perthynas ddynol. Dywed am ei ffigyrau; “"Daw'r ffigyrau cerameg bach allan o'r gwrych gallaf ei weld drwy'r ffenestr. Maent yn gorymdeithio, gan adnewyddu delweddau a storïau a anghofiwyd, o blentyndod a chwedlau ein diwylliant. ”Mae Meri yn artist cerameg sefydledig a dylanwadol dros ben. Mae hi’n Gynghorydd Cenedlaethol i Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, ac fe'i hetholwyd i Academi Frenhinol Gymreig a'r Academi Cerameg Genedlaethol yn 2007. O R I E L T E G F R Y N CADNANT ROAD MENAI BRIDGE YNYS MÔN LL59 5EW Tel: 01248 715128 tegfryn@artwales.com