Eleri Mills

  • Biography
    Dewi Tannatt Lloyd
    Dewi Tannatt Lloyd

    Porthmadog 1987

    Gold Medal for Craft & Design

    Eleri Mills lives and works in rural Mid Wales, where she was born and brought up. She has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad since the 1970's including the Museums of Modern Art Kyoto and Tokyo, Museu Textil d’Indumentaria, Barcelona and the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid. 

     

    In 2010 she won the Arts Council of Wales’ Creative Wales Ambassador award followed by a three-month residency in New York at Columbia University and a showing at SOFA NYC (the international art fair for Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art) at Park Avenue Armory.

    Her work is featured in national collections which include the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 2021 she won the Kyffin Williams drawing prize and in 2023 Eleri was awarded the Glyndwr Prize by the Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust for an outstanding contribution to the arts in Wales.

     
  • Porthmadog 1987 Jwg (Jug) Paint, handstitching and appliqué on fabric 100 x 160cm 1985 'Jwg' ('Jug') was created in my...

    Porthmadog 1987

     

    Jwg (Jug)
    Paint, handstitching and appliqué on fabric
    100 x 160cm 1985

    'Jwg' ('Jug') was created in my Manchester studio in 1985, soon after my Mother died and was a way of coming to terms with my loss and making sense of the thoughts in my mind at that time.
    Using handstitching and appliqué techniques, shapes drift across, and the memory of things pass through, as transient as fingermarks on a steamy window.

    It is half dreamscape but hinges on the outline of an old enamel water jug, a familiar object from the studio. It is full of opposites - absence and presence, negative and positive and there is a sense of distance and fading away. On the right is a stylized hayfield as seen through my mind's eye, the Mid Wales landscape I was longing to return to.

    In the 1987 National Eisteddfod of Wales, Porthmadog, 'Jwg' ('Jug') was awarded the Craft Masterpiece Gold Medal with selectors Jean Muir, Stephen Bayley and Derrick E Turner commenting:

    "She has a genuinely original eye, and an impressive range of technical competence. The general impression of her work was outstanding. We hope that the award of the prize will encourage the development of a remarkable talent

  • Works
    • Eleri Mills, Capel y Ffin ponies
      Capel y Ffin ponies
    • Eleri Mills, Travelling along the mountain track II
      Travelling along the mountain track II

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