Clive Hicks-Jenkins Publications

		Critic Nicholas Usherwood has described the work of Clive Hicks-Jenkins as ‘reflective, expressive painting of the highest order’. From a background as a choreographer and theatre director, Hicks-Jenkins has since the 1990s become increasingly well-known as a painter, producing exploratory sequences of works that embrace diverse subject-matter with a consistent and distinctive vision. His paintings are now held in all the principal public collections in Wales and his artists’ books are in libraries worldwide; he is a Royal Cambrian Academician and an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University.	Published by Grey Mare Press in association with Lund Humphries Illustrations: Includes over 200 in colour & 50 in black & white Published: May 2011 Extent: 240 pages Binding: Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84822-082-9 Price : £35.00
	This book is the first to survey Clive Hicks- Jenkins’ work as a whole, and is published in celebration of the artist’s sixtieth birthday. Its wide-ranging texts are written by poets, novelists and art historians based in Britain and the USA. They address themes inherent in Hicks-Jenkins’ different bodies of work: sense of place; his theatrical ensembles created from familiar objects; his sequence of huge drawings inspired by the Welsh folk tradition of the Mari Lwyd; his important series made in response to fragments of a Tuscan altarpiece; stories of the miraculous; the influence of theatre in the artist’s use of puppet-like maquettes; the connections between his drawing and choreography; his artist’s books; and his dialogues with contemporary poets. Robert Macdonald has written in Planet, ‘There are not many artists in Wales, or in Britain as a whole for that matter, whose art deals in a serious way with big issues. I believe that Clive’s painting does just that.’ The book will be welcomed by the artist’s growing following of supporters and by all those with an interest in figurative and narrative painting.

The Book of Ystwyth:
Six Poets on the Art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Solitude is a burrow
into which you fold yourself
like a letter into an envelope

Dave Bonta, ‘The Grave Dug by Beasts’

That moment hung,
a stopped raindrop,
a never falling leaf

Callum James, ‘The Boy and the Wolf'

Dave Bonta
Callum James
Andrea Selch
Catriona Urquhart
Damian Walford Davies
Marly Youmans

Published by Grey Mare Press in association with Carolina Wren Press and Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
The National Library of Wales

Illustrations: Includes 37 illustrations
Published: May 2011
Extent: 96 pages
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-932112-89-7
Price : £9.99

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   2001 catalogue available from
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Simon Callow, Andrew Green, Rex Harley, Clive Hicks- Jenkins, Kathe Koja, Anita Mills, Montserrat Prat, Jacqueline Thalmann, Damian Walford Davies and Marly Youmans, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Lund Humphries & Grey Mare Press, (2011) p.240
Dave Bonta, Callum James, Andrea Selch, Catriona Urquhart, Damian Walford Davies, Marly Youmans, The Book Of Ystwyth - Six Poets on the Art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Carolina Wren Press and Grey Mare Press (2011), p.96
Hugh Adams (ed), Re-Imaging Wales, Seren, Bridgend (2006)
Roderic Dunnett, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins in Cardiff', The British Art Journal, vol V, no 3 (2004), p.86
Nicholas Cranfield, 'Re-interpreting tales from the desert', Church Times, 28 May 2004
Roderic Dunnett, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins: Prospects of Wales, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff',
The Independant, 21 September 2004, Review p. 17.
Shelagh Hourahane, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins: The Temptations of Solitude', Planet (2004)
Rex Harley, Seamus Heaney, Michael Tooby and Clive Hicks-Jenkins,The Temptations of Solitude:
Paintings by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, 56 pages with 14 colour plates and 9 line illustrations. Grey Mare Press, Cardiff 2004
Hugh Adams, Imaging Wales: Contemporary Art in Context, Seren and Wales Arts International, Bridgend 2003
Robert Macdonald, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Demon at the Gate'Planet, 151, February 2002, pp.50-6
Martin Tinney, 'My Top 10' OneWales, 6, Autumn 2002, pp.46-8
Alison C. Lloyd, 'Profile: Clive Hicks-Jenkins' Art Review, May 2001, p.48
Rex Harley, 'Review: The Mare's Tale' Planet, 147, June/July 2001, pp.122-124
Caroline Juler, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins' Galleries, June 2001, p.26
Andrew Prior, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins: The Mare's Tale' Buzz, May 2001, p.10
Tony Curtis, 'Private View' New Welsh Review, 53, Summer 2001, pp.100-102
Rex Harley, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins', Modern Painters, Summer 2001, p.104
'Dreaming Awake : Eight Artists from Wales', Terezín Memorial, Czech Republic 2001, 'Bdele Sneni : Osm umelcu z Walesu'
Clive Hicks-Jenkins: The Mare's Tale, 36 pages, 16 illustrations, Newport Museum & Art Gallery 2001
Feature in 'Double Yellow', BBC Wales, June 2001
Dorothy A. Harrop, Frances McDowall, Nicolas McDowall, Peter Wakelin,The Old Stile Press in the twentieth century:
a bibliography 1979-1999, The Old Stile Press, Llandogo 2000.
Radio interview in 'April is the Cruellest Month', BBC Radio Wales, 2 April 2000
'Revelations: the Processes of Making Art', Welsh Group, Cardiff (2000), pp.28-29
Jeremy Greenwood, 'Review: The Affectionate Shepheard, with images by Clive Hicks-Jenkins'
Parenthesis, 2, September 1998, pp.22-23
Emmanuel Cooper, 'Clive Hicks-Jenkins', Gay Times April 1996

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