Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Born 1951, Newport, South Wales

Solo Exhibitions

2026. Iliad/Odyssey at Celf Gallery, Cardiff

2025/26 Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Art of the Book, Hay Castle, Hay on Wye

2025/26 Gwrach/Witch: a Fairy Tale Re-told. Oriel Myrddin, Carmathen

2024 Beowulf: Illustrations for the Folio Edition. Forthcoming at The Table, Hay on Wye

2021 Clive Hicks-Jenkins: Adventures in Books, Martin Tinney Gallery

2019 Grand Tour: artworks commissioned by English Heritage, Martin Tinney Gallery

2019 Hansel & Gretel: Owain Glyndwr Award Testimonial Exhibition, MoMA Machynlleth

2018         Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, MoMA Machynlleth

2018         Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Part II, Martin Tinney Gallery

2017         Hansel & Gretel, Oriel Tegfryn, Menai Bridge

2017         The Mind's Eye, Lotte Inch Gallery, York (with Sarah Raphael Balme)

2016         Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press, Martin Tinney Gallery

2015         Dark Movements, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

2014         Telling Tales, Oriel Tegfryn, Menai Bridge

2012         The Greening, Jersey Arts Centre, St Helier, Jersey

2011           Fall, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

2011          Clive Hicks-Jenkins: A Retrospective, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

2010         Touch, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

2010          Artist in Residence, St David’s Festival, St David’s Cathedral

2007         Herve and the Wolf: Saints and their Beasts, MoMA Machynlleth

2006         Views from Two Studios, Martin Tinney Gallery, Card

2005         Attic Gallery, Swansea (with Glenys Cour)

2004         Prospects of Wales, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

2004         The Temptations of Solitude, Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford

2004         The Temptations of Solitude, MoMA Machynlleth

2003         Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath

2002        The Tower on the Hill, Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery, Brecon

2001         Attic Gallery, Swansea

2001         The Mare’s Tale, Newport Museum & Art Gallery

2000        Oriel Ci Melyn, Cardiff

1998         The Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff (with Peter Prendergast and Dick Chappell

1996         Gordon Hepworth Fine Art, Exeter (with Alex Lowerey, V. Gardiner and Dick Chappell)

1996         The Kilvert Gallery, Clyro (with Charles Shearer)

Group Exhibitions

2018 A Mythic Understanding: inspired by David Jones, Camberwell College of Arts

2018 Then + Now: 80 years of collecting contemporary art for Wales. Tour

2015         The McDowall Collection of Neo-Romantic Art, Monnow Valley Arts Centre

2014         The Discerning Eye, Selector’s Choice, Mall Galleries, London

2014         All Coherence Gone? Historical Currents in Contemporary Still Life, Bay Art, Cardiff

2014         132nd Summer Exhibition, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy

2014         Arenig, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

2012 - 15  Open Books: Sixteen Artists and the Chinese Folding Book, touring

            Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 2014/March 2015

            University of New South Wales Canberra Library, Canberra, Australia, July 2014

            Logan Gallery, Queensland, Australia, May/June 2014

            Sanshang Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China, November 2013

            University of Western England Library, Bristol, England, July/August 2013

            BayArt Gallery, Cardiff Bay, Wales, April/May 2013

          National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, June/July 2012              

2011         Oriel Tegfryn, Menai Bridge

2010        Art for Children, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth

2010        56 Group Wales, Queen’s Hall Gallery, Narberth

2009       Masterstrokes, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth

2009       Visionaries: working at the margins, Wallspace, London

2009       Visionaries, Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham

2008       Mapping the Welsh Group at 60, National Library of Wales and tour

2008       56 Group Wales, The Art Shop and Gallery, Abergavenny

2006       The Painted Pot, Newport Museum & Art Gallery

2006       56 Group Wales, Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff

2005       CASW Distribution Exhibition, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

2005       56 Group Wales, Carmarthen XXX

2004-5    Y Fari Lwyd, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth

2004       56 Group Wales, The Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff

2004       St Donat’s Arts Centre, Llantwit Major

2003       Homage to Ceri Richards, Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea

2003       Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru, Meifod

2003       Gross Innovations, Beverly Arts Centre of Chicago, USA, and touring

2002-3    Wales Drawing Biennale, selected by Len Massey, Aberystwyth Art Centre (and tour)

2002        Hill Court Gallery, Abergavenny

2002        Dreaming Awake, Czech Embassy, London

2002        Looking Out, The Welsh Group, Turner House, Penarth

2002        Art 2002: London Art Fair, Business Design Centre (with Anthony Hepworth Fine Art)

2001         Looking Out, The Welsh Group, Newport Museum & Art Gallery

2001         Small, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

2001         The Art on Paper Fair, Royal College of Art (with Anthony Hepworth Fine Art)

2001         Art2001, London Contemporary Art Fair (with Anthony Hepworth Fine Art)

2000         Dreaming Awake, Terezín Memorial Gallery, and tour to four venues in Czech Republic

2000         Welsh Artist of the Year, St David’s Hall, Cardiff (Second Prize Winner)

2000         Collectors’ Paintings, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath

2000         Art2000, London Contemporary Art Fair (with Anthony Hepworth Fine Art)

2000         The Best Welsh Artists, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cork Street, London

2000         University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize, The Bridge/Y Bont, Pontypridd

2000         Watercolour Society of Wales, Turner House, Penarth

2000         Revelations, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran (and touring)

1999         Wales Drawing Biennale, Wrexham Art Centre (and touring)

1999         The Tabernacl Open, Museum of Modern Art Wales (Gulbenkian Prize winner)

1999         Watercolour Society of Wales, Turner House, Penarth

1999         The Welsh Group, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin

1999         Summer Exhibition, The Martin Tinney Gallery

1999         University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize, The Bridge/Y Bont, Pontypridd

1999         50 Years of The Welsh Group, Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Pwllheli

1999         Creating an Art Community, National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff

1998         Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

1998         The Tabernacl Open, Museum of Modern Art Wales

1998         Watercolour Society of Wales, Turner House, Penarth

1998         Look Without Prejudice, MIND Cymru, St David’s Hall, Cardiff

1998         Summer Exhibition, The Martin Tinney Gallery

1998         Summer Exhibition, The Attic Gallery

1998         Art of Living Fair, Eastnor Castle

1998         Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru, Bridgend

1998         Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London

1998         Purchase Art Prize, Y Bont/The Bridge Gallery, University of Glamorgan

1998         Watercolour Society of Wales, The Museum of Modern Art, Wales

1998         Keith Chapman Modern Art, Bloomsbury, London

1998         Art98 London Contemporary Art Fair

1997         Royal West of England Academy Autumn Exhibition

1997         Twentieth-Century Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London

1997-8      Wales Drawing Biennale, Aberystwyth Arts Centre (and touring), selected by David Nash

1997         Clink Wharf Gallery, London

1997         Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition

1997         The Tabernacl Open, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth

1997         Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru, Bala

1997         Art from the Eisteddfod, Oriel Coliseum, Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth

1997-8      20x20, The Welsh Group, Brecon Museum and St David’s Hall, Cardiff

1997         The Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

1997         Keith Chapman Modern Art, London W1

1997         The Albany Gallery, Cardiff

1997         The Attic Gallery, Swansea

1997         The Kilvert Gallery, Clyro

1997         Showcase Wales, Y Tabernacl: The Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth

1997         The Washington Gallery, Penarth

1997         The Country Living Fair, London

1997         Art97 London Contemporary Art Fair

1996         The Gallery, Smith Street, Chelsea (Gordon Hepworth Fine Art)

1996         Gordon Hepworth Fine Art, Exeter

1996         Watercolour Society of Wales, St David's Hall, Cardiff (prizewinner)

1996         Showcase Wales, Y Tabernacl: The Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth

1996         The Kilvert Gallery, Clyro

1996         Art96 London Contemporary Art Fair

1996         The Attic Gallery, Swansea

1996         The Washington Gallery, Penarth

1996         The Tabernacl Open, The Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth

1996         Aberystwyth Open, Aberystwyth Art Centre

1995         The Kilvert Gallery, Clyro

1995         The Attic Gallery, Swansea

1995         Caught in the Arts, Tretower Court, Powys

1995         Seeing is Believing, Pennine Arts, Burnley

1994-5      Head to Toe, Oriel Myrrddin, Carmarthen (and touring)

1994         Black Swan Guild, Frome

1992-4      The Old Library, Cardiff

Books Illustrated

2026. The Iliad, Standard Edition, Folio Society

2025. The Iliad/The Odyssey, Special Edition, Folio Society

2025. Born of Man and Woman, Suntup Press

2023 Beowulf, Seamus Heaney, Folio Society

2023 Seren in the World of Wonders, Marly Youmans, Wiseblood Books

2022 Cover illustration Sonnets, William Shakespeare, Penguin Random House

2022 Beauty & Beast, Olivia McCannon, Design for Today

2021 Beauty and Beast: a toy theatre, with David W. Slack, Olivia McCannon and Paul Sartin, Design for Today

2021 The Owl and the Nightingale, Simon Armitage, Faber & Faber

2020 Charis in the World of Wonders, Marly Youmans, Ignatius Publishing

2020 The Bird House, a picture-book published by Design for Today

2019 Hansel & Gretel: a Nightmare in Eight Scenes, Simon Armitage, Design for Today

2019 The Book of the Red King, Marly Youmans, Phoenicia Publishing

2018 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Simon Armitage, Faber & Faber

2017 Hansel & Gretel: a toy theatre, commissioned by Benjamimin Pollock’s

2016         Hansel & Gretel, a picture-book, commissioned by Random Spectacular

2014         Glimmerglass, Marly Youmans, Mercer University Press

2013         Cover illustration, Equus, Peter Shaffer, Penguin

2012        Jacket and interior illustrations, Thaliad, Marly Youmans, Phoenicia Publishing

2012        The Foliate Head, Marly Youmans, Stanza Press

2012         Cover illustration, Witch, Damian Walford Davies, Seren

2010         Cover illustration, Old Stile Press Bibliography 2

2009        Equus, by Peter Shaffer, The Old Stile Press

2009        Cover design, Val/Orson Marly Youmans, for PS Publishing

2001         The Mare’s Tale, Catriona Urquhart, The Old Stile Press

2001         The Sonnets of Richard Barnfield, The Old Stile Press

2000        Cover illustration, The Old Stile Press in the Twentieth Century

1998         Richard Barnfield's The Affectionate Shepherd, The Old Stile Press

1997         Palmyra Jones, Catriona Urquhart, The Old Stile Press

Collections

Pallant House Art Gallery, Chichester

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Museum of Modern Art Wales

Contemporary Art Society for Wales

University of Glamorgan

Brecknock Museum Art Trust, Brecon

Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff

The Methodist Church Collection of Modern Christian Art

Neville Hall Hospital Trust, Abergavenny

Newport Museum & Art Gallery

Swansea Metropolitan University

Limited-edition books in museums and libraries around the world, including the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, British Library, Bodleian Library, National Library of Wales, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, National Museum of Wales, University of Pennsylvania, Victoria & Albert Museum, Folger Shakespeare Library, Winchester College, Aukland City Library.

Private collections in England, Wales, Scotland, France and USA

Awards

2020 Winner of the 2020 V&A Illustrated Book Award for Hansel & Gretel: a Nightmare in Eight Scenes

2019 Owain Glyndwr Medal for Contributions to the Arts. MoMA, Mach

2017 Honorary Doctor of Arts, Southampton Solent University 

2014          Prizewinner, The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London

2008-        Royal Cambrian Academician

2002-3      Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales

1999          Gulbenkian Welsh Art Prize

Books about the artist

John Barnie, Clive Hicks-Jenkins: The Mare’s Tale, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, 2001

Dave Bonta, Callum James, Andrea Selch, Catriona Urquhart, Damian Walford Davies and Marly Youmans, The Book of Ystwyth: Six Poets on the Art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Carolina Wrenn Press, 2011

Simon Callow, Andrew Green, Rex Harley, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Kathe Koja, Anita Mills, Montserrat Prat Jacqueline Thalmann, Damian Walford Davies, Marly Youmans, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Lund Humphries, 2011

Rex Harley, Seamus Heaney, Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Mike Tooby, The Temptations of Solitude: Paintings by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Grey Mare Press, 2004