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| Bethan Ash | |
1949 – Neath, West Glamorgan, South Wales |
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| About the Artist | |
I often use random thoughts and symbols, and frequently work using a stream-of-consciousness thought process. |
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Cutting the Carbs - applying the lbs!
2006 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt using digital transfer wording. 100% Cotton upper. Cotton filling and backing |
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Taffiti Graffiti
2004 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt using digital transfer Welsh wording, representing the colours used in the quilt i.e., coch = red, glas = blue , etc.
100% Cotton upper, filling and backing
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Windows
2005 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt. Cut and fused wording applied to hand, resist and discharge dyed silk. Machine stitched and quilted. 100% silk upper, filling and backing |
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Been there, Seen It, Done It!
2004 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt using digital transfer wording. 100% resist and discharge dyed cotton upper. Cotton filling and backing |
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Colour Cube
2006 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused collage installation mounted on wooden stretchers.100% Cotton upper and filling |
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Welsh Colours
2004 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt using digital transfer wording. Panels are mounted on wooden stretchers. The Welsh words used in the work refer to the colours in the quilt i.e., coch = red, glas = blue, etc.
Machine stitched and quilted. 100% Cotton upper, filling and backing
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Colour Composition
2007 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt.100% Cotton upper. Cotton filling and backing |
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Down South
2007 |
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| Improvisational cut, fused and stiched wall quilt . 100% Cotton upper with Vilene decoration. Cotton filling and backing |
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Chasing The Dragon
2000 |
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| Improvisational cut, fused and stitched collage. Cotton, Viscose and lame upper. Cotton filling and backing.
In the collection of the Museum of Art and Design, New York. |
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Real Artists Don't Make Textiles
1998 |
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| Improvisational cut, stitched and fused wall quilt.100% Cotton upper using digital transfer wording and images of fine artists. Cotton filling and backing.
In the collection of Braintree Museum and Art Gallery |
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Urban Landscape
2006 |
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| : Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt 100% cotton fabric, hand dyed and painted. Panels are mounted on wooden stretchers. Machine stitched and quilted. |
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Suburbia
2006 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt using commercially dyed and hand painted fabrics. The panels are mounted on wooden stretchers. Machine stitched and quilted. 100% Cotton upper, filling and backing |
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Dear Sir
2007 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt. Cut and fused shorthand words applied to hand-resist and discharge dyed cotton. Machine stitched and quilted. 100% Cotton upper, filling and backing |
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Floating Circles
2007 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused collage installation mounted on wooden stretchers.100% Cotton upper and filling |
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I Want To Stitch
2007 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt. Cut and fused wording applied to hand, resist and discharge dyed cotton. Machine stitched and quilted. 100% Cotton upper, filling and backing |
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Positively/Negative
2007 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused collage. Cut and fused wording applied to silk screen printed fabric background. Machine stitched and quilted. 100% Cotton upper, filling and backing |
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Skeletal Relief
2007 |
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| Improvisational cut and fused wall quilt. Applied/fused cottonshape to taffeta and silk upper. Cotton filling and backing |
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| Education and biography | |
| 1965-68 Foundation + C&G Dress Design, Swansea College of Art 1968-71 Dip. AD Fashion, Cardiff College of Art 1971-72 B.B.S.I. Fellowship, Northampton Polytechnic My formal training was in fashion design, also specialising in and winning an award for shoe design. After a career in the fashion industry and the birth of my son, I discovered that quilt making best expressed my personal vision. I have been a quilt artist since 1980, during this time I have won International awards for my work and exhibited extensively, both in group and one-man shows throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. My work may also be found in public and private collections including that of The Museum of Art and Design, New York Exhibitions include: CRAFTBOSTON, Seaport World Trade Centre, Boston, USA by invitation of the Society of Arts and Crafts, 2007 - Quilt Art 22 - The Art Center Sikeborg Bad, Denmark Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes, Wales, Designer Crafts @ Chelsea 2007, FAW exhibition with SDC, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London Quilt Art 20 - twentieth anniversary touring exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Roermond, The Netherlands Budapest, Hungary Nordwestdeutsches Museum für IndustrieKultur, Delmenhorst, Germany The National Crafts Centre, Kilkenny, Ireland Musée Textile de Haute-Alsace, Wesserling, France International Quilt Week 2007,Yokohama, Japan Burlington Museum, Ontario, Canada, 2006 - - 08 Touring exhibitions - EAQ IV, European Art Quilt touring exhibition opens in "la Sucriere", Lyon, France Musee de l'Impression sur Etoffes, Mulhouse, France. Textile Museum Tilburg, The Netherlands EAQ IV in Nebraska, The Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, USA Textilforum, Herning, Denmark QUILT ART 20 ¬ An exhibition to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Quilt Art. 2006 venues Collins Gallery, Glasgow, U.K Royal Cornwall Museum, U.K Bankfield Museum, Halifax, U.K Gloucester Museum, U.K Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, U.K Stedelijk Museum, Roermond, The Netherland 2005 Art In The Frame Exhibition and workshops, Art In The Frame Foundation, St Helier, Jersey Origins FAW exhibition, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 2004 Art Quilts from the Collection of the American Museum of Art & Design, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts. USA (invited) ORIGINS, F.A.W UK touring exhibition, The Knitting & Stitching Show, London, Dublin and Harrogate HOMELANDS Brewery Art Centre, Cirencester, Glos (group) HOMELANDS, Theatr Mwldan, Ceredigion F.A.W UK touring exhibition 2003 European Art Quilt 2, The Textile Museum, Helmbrechts, Germany (selected) QUILT NATIONAL '03, The Dairy Barn, Ohio, USA. + Canada, Australia and Japan. (selected) Re-Interpretations, Braintree Museum and Art Gallery, Essex, UK (group) 2002 - Quilts from Six Continents, American Museum of Art and Design, touring exhibition, USA, Japan and Australia (invited) Limited Edition, Alexandra Palace, London, UK. (QA group) Welsh Artists, Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Hampshire, UK. (selected) 2001 - Fibre Visions, The Contemporary Craftsman, Monmouth, UK. (group) European Art Quilt 2, Breda, The Netherlands and Textilforum Denmark. (selected) Contemporary Art Quilts, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear. (invited) Atmosphere, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport, South Wales, UK. (selected) Moving On - Quilt Art, European Touring exhibition, UK, Germany, France + Denmark (group) 2000 - Europe At The Millennium, Strasbourg, France. Atmosphere, Oceanside Museum of Art, California, USA. 1999 - Quilt 99, Alexander Palace, London, Harrogate & Dublin/ Ireland Rags To Riches, Oriel Pendeitsh Gallery, Caernarfon, North Wales - Solo exhibition. Colour & Form, Llantarnam Grange Art Centre, South Wales - Solo exhibition. 1998- Artful Boxes. NFA. UK Touring Exhibition. Quilt Art 'Poetic Licence European Touring Exhibition 1997 - European Art Quilt, Tilsberg, Netherlands & Denmark. International Quilt Exhibition, Yokohama, Japan. Fibre on the Outside, Durham Museum. South Bank Banner Design, South Bank London. 1996 - A Vision in Action, Durham Museum & Holburne Craft Centre, Bath. Fibre on the Outside, Norton Priory, Cheshire. Quilt Art 10, Museum of Oxford. Quilt Art New Work, touring Europe for 3 years. 1995 - Interiors, Devizes Art Gallery, Wiltshire.- solo show The Furniture Group, Once a Tree Gallery, Bath S.D.C. Mall Gallery, London 1994 - Royal National Eisteddfod, Neath, West Glam. South Wales. The Commissioning Dialogue, The Mall Gallery, London. 1993 - Quilts Europa, Leuven, Brussels. 1992 - Fibre meets Fiber, Mansfield Museum, Notts. And San Diego, U.S.A. 1991 - Wales In Europe Through Its Crafts, Makers Guild in Wales exhibition, Brussels. |
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| Future shows | |
| 2008 -EAQ V, European Art Quilt touring exhibition, opens in NEC, Birmingham, UK - selected Journey from Bed to Wall, Quilters' Guild inaugural exhibition, York - invited Journeys - Fibre Art Wales group, Banbury Museum, Banbury, Oxfordshire Quilt Art 22 - Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery, Gloucester U.K MIAT Museum, Gent, Belgium. |
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| Website: www.bethanash.co.uk | |
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