South Wales | South London
Education
Walworth Garden 2024-25 / Environmental Gardening Level 2
City and Guilds of London Art School 2022-23 / Sculpture & Woodwork Fellowship
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) 2022 / Teaching Qualification
The Glasgow School of Art 2015-18 / First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture & Environmental Art
Emily Carr University of Art & Design Vancouver 2016 / Exchange Semester
Kingston School of Art 2014-15 / Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
CELTA 2011 / Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
State primary, secondary and tertiary education in South Wales
Residencies | Awards | Placements
current Artist Laureate, Fluxus Art Projects / FR
current Magnetic Residency, Frac Bretagne & la Galerie du Dourven / FR (2 months)
current AA2A Artist in Residence at Buckinghamshire New University / UK (1 year)
upcoming Grizedale Arts Merzbarn Garden-Making Residency / UK (10 days)
2025 Riso Residency, Arcade Campfa & Biscuits Press / Cardiff CYM (5 days)
2025 Artist Support Fund
(postponed) Artist Teacher Placement Sultanhisar Halk Eğitimi Merkezi / Turkey (1 week)
2024 UN IDEE MODULE II Residency + Travel Bursary, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto / Biella IT (1 week)
2024 Artist in Residence with Hackney Council Library Service / London UK (1 month)
2024 The Eaton Fund Artists’ Grant
2024 Art School Plus Library Programme / London UK (1 week)
2024 Photofusion Brixton / London, UK (10 weeks)
2023 OPEN CELLS Residency The Koppel Project / London UK (1 month)
2023 Art School Plus Programme / London UK (1 week)
2023 Creative Cardiff Scholarship
2023 Sculpture as Memoir Residency, The Grange Projects / Norfolk UK (3 days)
2023 Sculpture & Woodwork Fellowship, City and Guilds of London Art School / London UK (1 year)
2022 make Residency, Freelands Foundation / London UK (2 weeks)
2022 Ceramics and Craft Residency, Devetaki Plateau Association / Bulgaria (1 week)
2017 Traditional Crafts & Creativity in a Village Museum Residency, Lišov Muzeum / Slovakia (1 month)
Selected Exhibitions | Publications
upcoming The Bonnington Centre / London UK
upcoming Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod of Wales / CYM
2024 The Nature Of Change, Photofusion Brixton / London UK
2024 TALL STOREYS / Printed
2024 INDEX, The Grange Projects / Norfolk UK
2024 Coast, The Photocopy Club / Printed
2023 OPEN CELLS Exhibition, The Koppel Collective / London UK
2023 MA & Fellows Show, City and Guilds of London Art School / London UK
2023 Southwark Park Galleries 39th Annual Open Exhibition / London UK
2023 Who’s Been Sleeping in my Bed / Bath UK
2023 WMC Open / London UK
2022 Serious Games, Gallery 115 / Ottawa CA
2022 make, Freelands Foundation / London UK
2022 Positive Dissociations, Deptford X / London UK
2022 Winter Sculpture Park, Gallery No.32 / London UK
2022 The Coming of Age, Fringe Arts Bath / Bath UK
2022 Cultivate: Deflect & Organ Magazine / Online
2022 Cultivate: Book & Organ Magazine / Online
2021 Dark Age Before Us, Deptford X / London UK
2021 This is Not a Shop, curated by Non-Place Collective / Bath UK
2021 Фестиваля плохого видеоарта, Gallery Bomba / Moscow RU
2021 Southwark Park Galleries 37th Annual Open Exhibition / London UK
2021 Lump It, Wysing Broadcasts, Wysing Arts Centre / Online
2020 SWAP Editions No.5 Island, Creekside Artists / London UK
2020 SKELF / Online
2020 Non-Place Collective, Bath Fringe Arts Festival / Online
2020 A Selection of Street Corners, Utopia Magazine / Printed
2019 A City Named Dog, Mission Gallery / Swansea CYM
2018 CYANOPSIA, New Glasgow Society / Glasgow SCO
2018 Glasgow School of Art Undergraduate Degree Show / Glasgow SCO
2018 Love Letters to an Institution / Printed
2017 Up A Hill, Down A Hill, The Woodlands Trust / Dumbarton SCO
2017 WOOF Ceramics, The Dogs Trust / Glasgow SCO
2017 12 Hours of Welsh Film, The Barnes / Glasgow SCO
2017 Pub(l)ic, The Old Hairdressers / Glasgow SCO
2016 Ubiquitous: Infrastructures in Bad Condition, Broadcast on Radiophrenia from CCA Glasgow / SCO
2016 Ceramics Exhibition, H. Scott Gallery / Vancouver CA
2016 Public Art Project, The Queens Cross Housing Association / Glasgow SCO
2016 Girl Gang Zine issues 1 & 2 / Sheffield UK
2016 25% EXTRA,The Arches / Glasgow SCO
2016 Anti-Brexit Posters, Elysium Studios / Swansea CYM
2015 Vote Art, Peckham Platform / London UK
2015 IAN Presents an Exhibition, Studio T / London UK
2015 Drawings at Idea, The Spit & Sawdust Art Space / Cardiff CYM
2014 When Cattitides Become Form, Galerie de l’Angle / Paris FR
1998 1st Prize in Art Eisteddfod, Year 2 / Wales CYM
Teaching | Workshops | Facilitation | Employment
2025 Ceramics and Sculpture Technician, School of Visual Arts, The City Literary Institute / London
2025 Technician, Studio Pottery London / London
2024 - 25 Woodwork Technician, City and Guilds of London Art School / London
2024 - 25 Arts Emgergency Mentor / UK
2023 - 25 Freelance Technician / Exhibition Install Assistant / UK
2022 - 23 Sculpture & Woodwork Fellowship, City and Guilds of London Art School / London
2021 - 24 Ceramics Technician, Kingston School of Art / London
2020 - 24 Lecturer in Fine Art, Kingston School of Art / London
2019 - 20 Technical Fellowship, Kingston School of Art / London
2018 Material Research Fellowship, Swansea College of Art / Wales
2017 Workshop leader at HMP Parc Prison in collaboration with Mission Gallery / Wales
2016 Art Teacher, Education Department at HMP Greenock Prison / Scotland
2016 Artist Assistant / Glasgow
2015 Technician, V&A Museum / London
2012 - 14 English Language Instructor / Paris
Shortlisted
2025 The Churchill Fellowship / UK
2024 Delfina Foundation for British Council funded Residency at Divvy Foundation / Lahore PK
2024 Ikon Gallery Artist in Residence at HMP Spring Hill / UK
2024 Nominated for LAL Award by Photofusion Brixton / London UK
2023 Imperial War Museum 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund Commission / UK
2019 Sir Leslie Joseph Award, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery / Swansea CYM
Featured | More Info
Fellowship at City and Guilds of London
Art Schhol Plus
AA2A
Creative Cardiff Scholarship
Koppel Project
The Mission Gallery
Roderick & Jones
Full CV available upon request
© Mez Kerr Jones 2025