Richard Bevan
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Biography
Abergavenny 2016
Gold Medal for Fine Art
Born 1980, Maesteg (UK). Currently based in London.
Richard gained his BA in Fine Art from Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff (2002) and gained his MA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2008). He was then an Associate Artist at LUX, London 2012-2013.
In 2003 he won the Young Artist Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod of Wales Montgomeryshire, and 2016 won the Gold Medal in Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod of Wales Monmouthshire. In 2024 he was awarded an Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice Award to produce a series of anime works.
Recent presentations of work include solo exhibitions with Hidde Van Seggelen, Hamburg (2023) and a solo show as Setsuko, Little Vehicle Projects, Nagoya (2024). Group presentations at; The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2026), TEFAF, Maastricht (2025), New York Art Book Fair (Featured Artist with Printed Matter), New York (2024), Amsterdam Tokyo Art Book Fair (2021), ASP, ICA, London (2020), Little Vehicle, Super Gallery, Nagoya (2020), The Gallery In The Expanded Field, blip blip blip, Moscow (2020), Solo show, Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem (2019), Maquettes, The Block, London (2018), A Portrait of Beth Harmon for a Screen Play, Tender Books, London (2018), MULTIPLEXING, LUX, Cineworld, Glasgow (2018).
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Abergavenny 2016
The films that won the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the Eisteddfod in 2016 have relatively unconventional forms. As long as two hours of a loop within a cinema, or as short as 13 seconds as the only work within a solo gallery presentation. Each film has a different starting point but they share certain qualities. There is a tension between the still and moving image, the films are almost closer to photographs than to traditional durational films. They have no recorded soundtracks, but are accompanied by the mechanical noises of the film projector and any sounds that can be heard in the spaces they are shown.
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List of films shown:
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2 minutes 45 seconds
16mm film
2012
Chess Club
16mm / 35mm film
Looped
2013
Z LP DR BK PL PF ST NN
Double 16mm films
2 minutes 45 seconds
2014
RW2 (and a long piece of black leader)
16mm film
2 minutes 45 seconds
2015
I edit ‘in-camera’, usually shooting a single take, linking the time of the making to that of the viewing. They present a piece of displaced time. Where and how they are shown is important, they are not shown online or in showreels but presented as ‘objects’ in galleries or looped as installations in cinemas. The films could be seen as re-stagings of images I have created or ‘found’. A picture of a child playing chess, a physicist’s descriptive gesture during a lecture, an animator working on a model. Language is important. Film titles operate as non sequiturs, and as much as possible the films are not mediated by words such as statements or contextualising essays. The ambiguities that arise from this absence of words are productive. The works rely on images to communicate. A film of hands making subtle movements, or a girl's eyes as she plans her next chess move present thought processes hopefully reciprocated by the viewer.
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Works
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Portrait of a Big Sentence
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Ugh
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Drawing of a Big Sentence (sweater), 2022
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GOLD Artists-
Daniel Trivedy
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Emrys Williams
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Iwan Bala
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Shani Rhys James
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Sue Williams
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Tim Davies
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Verity Pulford
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Elfyn Lewis
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Eleri Mills
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Gareth Griffith
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Peter Finnemore
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Philip Nicol
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Catrin Howell
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Simon Fenoulhet
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Angharad Pearce Jones
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Rhian Haf
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Seán Vicary
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Suzie Horan
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Carwyn Evans
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Peter Bodenham
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Laura Thomas
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Brendan Stuart Burns
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Ann Catrin Evans
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Richard Bevan
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Julia Griffiths Jones
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Gareth Hugh Davies
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Sean Edwards
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John Rowley
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Bedwyr Williams
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Ivor Davies
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