Clive Hicks-Jenkins

In Clive Hicks-Jenkins' early career he was an actor, choreographer, director, and stage designer, creating productions with leading companies in London. He moved back to Wales permanently in the late 1980's to concentrate on his work as an artist. The actor Simon Callow has called him "one of the most individual and complete artists of our time" and Nicholas Usherwood in Galleries has described his work as "reflective, expressive painting of the highest order." His paintings, prints and...See more

In Clive Hicks-Jenkins' early career he was an actor, choreographer, director, and stage designer, creating productions with leading companies in London. He moved back to Wales permanently in the late 1980's to concentrate on his work as an artist. The actor Simon Callow has called him "one of the most individual and complete artists of our time" and Nicholas Usherwood in Galleries has described his work as "reflective, expressive painting of the highest order." His paintings, prints and artists' books are in numerous public collections, including the National Museum of Wales, the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art Machynlleth, the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, Llandaff Cathedral, Pallant House Gallery, and the Methodist Church Collection of Modern Art, as well as private collections around the world. His artist's books, including the first illustrated edition of Peter Shaffer's Equus, are in libraries worldwide. Clive was winner of the Gulbenkian Welsh Art Prize in 1999, runner-up as Welsh Artist of the Year in April 2000, and in 2002 received a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales. He is a Royal Cambrian Academician and an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University School of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Martin Tinney Gallery, Newport Museum & Art Gallery, Brecknock Museum, the Museum of Modern Art Wales, and Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford. In 2011, his work was celebrated in a hugely successful retrospective at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. His latest exhibition featured a limited edition series of 14 screenprints, and supplemental paintings and drawings, on the theme Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. These screenprints have been reproduced in a new edition of Simon Armitage's translation of the poem (Faber & Faber, 2018) which served as inspiration for the series. 2016 saw the publication of his first illustrated book Hansel and Gretel (Random Spectacular). In 2018 Goldfield Productions' Hansel and Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes, inspired by Clive's images and under his direction and design supervision, toured England to great acclaim. [Composer Matthew Kaner, poet Simon Armitage, and a team of visual and puppetry artists.] Armitage's retelling of the tale with Clive's illustrations was published by Design For Today in the autumn of 2018. In Spring 2019, the Berkley Ensemble will be presenting the first public concert performances of The Mare's Tale by composer Mark Bowden and librettist poet Damian Walford Davies, across England, Wales and Scotland. Clive-Jenkins has been praised by critics in The Independent, Modern Painters, Art Review, Galleries, The New Welsh Review, Planet, and the BBC Wales series Double Yellow. His work has also been selected for several prestigious group exhibitions, including the Royal Academy. The Book of Ystwyth: Six Poets on the Art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Carolina Wren Press) and the noteworthy monograph Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Lund Humphries) were both published by in 2011. www.hicks-jenkins.com AND clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com See less