Y GRÅ´P CYMREIG THE WELSH GROUP
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Glenn Ibbitson
 Glenn Ibbitsonby Bernard Mitchell |
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 Without a Trace 3 |
 Without a Trace 1 |
 Target in Blue and Gold |
 6079 Smith W |
 Death of Richthofen 2 |
 Sisyphus |
Glenn Ibbitson uses painting, printmaking, video, collage and graphic novels to engage with issues of surveillance, homelessness people trafficking and infringements of individual liberty. ‘Death of Richthofen’ weaves historical events into a personal meditation on a father and son relationship, investigating distortions of both personal and collective memory.
The message of any work is usually embedded as subtext, under cover of representational painting employing techniques extracted from the Western painting tradition.
For this reason, his art has been compared to a self-assembly furniture kit - don’t expect to find all the components in the box -or an instruction manual.
His is represented by works in private and public collections across six continents.
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Articles and Publications:
Occasional Visual Arts feature writer for “Carmarthenshire Life” 2005-07
‘Self’ Craig Kerrecoe ISBN 978-1-907437-00-7 [2009]
“Painting by Numbers” Jenny White; Western Mail Friday 28th October 2011
“Coming out of the Closet” Acumen British Chamber of Commerce in Japan May 2013
‘Quotes’ Andy Wild/ Mike Healey ISBN 978-1-9164788-1-7 [2019]
NOIR: edited L. Watkinson 2023
Painting featured on “The Late Show- Fakes and Forgeries”: BBC2 T.V. April 1990
Paintings used as studio props in feature film: “Déjà Vu” directed by H. Jaglom. 1997
Paintings used as studio props in premiere of ‘Just Supper’ by Melanie Davies. Attic Theatre Newcastle Emlyn
Born: Leeds, England.
Lives: Newcastle Emlyn, Wales.
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Solo Exhibitions from 2004:
2004 Trinity Theatre and Art Centre, Tunbridge Wells;
2005 “Smoke and Mirrors” Oriel Mwldan Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan
2009-present “Consignment" Tour
Denbigh Library Art Gallery
Ballroom, Tregwynt Mansion, Pembs.
Studio 75 Gallery Haggeston, Hackney, London
Creative Arts Network, Sidcup, London
Buxton Art Gallery and Museum
Aberystwyth School of Art
2013 Paintings, drawings, prints: Theatre Clwyd Mold, Flintshire
2018 Selected Works: 1997-2018 Radnorshire Museum, Llandrindod Wells
2020: Large works Stwdio 3,Cardigan
2022: Targets and Barcodes: Seagull Gallery, Cardigan
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Selected Group Exhibitions from 2010:
2010 “Freaks” Shoreditch Town Hall basement gallery; London
2011 Myth, Magic & Madness: View Gallery, Bristol
“The Draughtsman” Studio 75 Hackney, London
“Rip it up, Mash it up; collage and assemblage”. Studio 75 Gallery Haggeston, London
Aberystwyth Printmakers Wharepuke Print Centre, New Zealand
“Tiny Lions and Giant Snails” View Gallery, Bristol
20/21 International Art Fair: Royal College of Art; London [through View Gallery]
"Social Deformity" View Gallery, Bristol
2016 New Light Art Prize Bowes Museum, Co Durham Mercer Gallery, Harrogate [2016]
Welsh Drawing Book Exhibition Oriel Henry Thomas Carmarthen School of Art
Pages -International Artists Book Fair the Tetley, Leeds
2017: RWSW with the Nordic Watercolour Societies: Reykjavik
2016 /2018/ 2021New Light Art Prize [UK travelling show]
2018RBSA Friends exhibition, RBSA Portraiture exhibition Birmingham
2021/22/23 Royal Cambrian Society Open Conwy
2023 Life Full Colour; Open: Caernarfon
2022/23 Members and Associates, RBSA, Birmingham
2023 RWSW Redhouse Merthyr/ RCA Conwy/ Waterfront, Milford Haven
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