Angharad Pearce Jones

  • Biography

    Pontypridd 2024

    Gold Medal for Fine Art

    Originally from Bala, in North Wales, Angharad Pearce Jones graduated from renowned 3D Design and Craft BA (Hons) course at Brighton University in 1991 and completed an MA in Fine Art at Cardiff Art School in 1999. She supports her practice by working as a commercial blacksmith and steel fabricator. 

    In her early career, she created a clear distinction between her artwork and commercial work but over the years they have become inter-dependable. She realises the sculptural potential in everything made of steel, from agricultural fences, sports stadium turnstiles, prams, and scaffold poles, to the dust that congeals on her disc cutter. She has one foot in the mundane everyday life of being a mother of 3 whilst indulging in too much reality tv and another in heavy industry and high art, resulting in a fascinating combination that has led to some thought-provoking work.

  • Pontypridd 2024

    On Which Side Are you?

    The work was developed in response to Angharad's perception that divisions in society had increased following the Brexit referendum in 2016.

    The piece was originally built in her home during the lockdown period splitting through the kitchen table and dining room with a palisade fence. The Covid-19 pandemic brought new meaning to the piece, but Angharad says it suggests any division or boundary, and raises so many questions about the nature and impact of personal and political choices.
    The Eisteddfod winning piece in it's original form at Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
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    Lle Celf 2024 Courtesy of Eisteddfod Genedlaethol (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Part of a fence bent to reflect the hidden gap that young people would use to gain access, without paying, to a sports centre in the Swansea area. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

     On which side are you? Courtesy of Rolant Dafis

  • Works
    • Angharad Pearce Jones, IMPACT No 1: Lidl Car Park, Pollenca, Mallorca
      IMPACT No 1: Lidl Car Park, Pollenca, Mallorca

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