C.V.
JULIA GRIFFITHS JONES
Education
1976 – 78 M.A. Printed Textiles Royal College of Art.
1973 – 76 B.A. Printed Textiles Winchester School of Art
1972 – 73 Hornsey College of Art Foundation Course
Awards
2018 Visual Arts Award from Carmarthenshire County Council.
2018 St.David’s Day award from Swansea College of Art.
2017 Gold medal for Craft and Design at the National Eisteddfod of
Wales, Anglesey.
2017 Josef Herman prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales
2014 Creative Wales Ambassador Award
2008 Arts Council of Wales Production Grant
2003 Creative Wales Award
1999 Wales Arts International –Exhibiting overseas award
1996 Arts Council of Wales – Travel Award
1984 British Council Scholarship to Romania
1982 British Council Scholarship to Hungary
1979 British Council Scholarship to Czechoslovakia
1977 Sandersons Art in Industry Award
Collections
2023 Carmarthenshire Museum
2015 The Department of Metalwork, Victoria and Albert Museum
2012 Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
2000 Bankfield Museum, Halifax
1999 Povazske Museum, Zilina, Slovakia
1978 Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Commissions
2024 National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2023 Carmarthenshire Museum
2023 National Trust, Dinefwr
2022 National Trust, Llanerchaeron
2018 Commissioned by St.Fagans National Museum of History
To make a metal sculpture for Y Gweithdy
2009 Commissioned to design ceramic and textile
Products for The National Museum of Wales
2008 Commissioned to create a Textile Trail for
The National Wool Museum
2004 Commissioned by N.H.S. Grampian for the
Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital
2000 Made prize for Welsh Business Person of the
Year presented at the National Eisteddfod of
Wales, Llanelli
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Printmaker in Focus, Ruthin Craft Centre
2023 Maker in Focus, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
2022 Gallery Gwyn, Aberaeron
2021 Women Artists in Wales, MOMA Machynlleth
2020 Collect Open at Somerset House, London
2019 Indian Threads – Exhibition at Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2018 Indian Threads – Exhibition at Ruthin Craft Centre
2016 Room within a Room – Ruthin Craft Centre.
2015 Room within a Room – Solo touring exhibition to The Museum
of the Slovak Village, and The Orava Village Museum, Slovakia
2005 Stories in the Making- organised by Ruthin Craft Centre
and toured to:
Iona Gallery, Kingussie
St. Fergus Gallery, Wick
Swanson Gallery, Caithness
Mission Gallery, Swansea
Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen
2000 Unwinding the Thread – Bankfield Museum, Halifax
1999 Focus showcase – Contemporary Applied Arts
1999 Embroideries in the Air – Povazske Museum, Slovakia
1999 Embroideries in the Air – Slovak National Museum
1998 Unwinding the Thread – Ruthin Craft Centre
1997 Unwinding the Thread – Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
1987 Folk Art of three lands revisited – tour
1981 Czech Chic – South Hill Park Arts Centre
1980 Five Months – Spectro Gallery,Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Magazines
2021 Embroidery Magazine, The Artist’s Archive
2014 Embroidery Magazine, Apron Strings
2010 Selvedge Magazine, Jones Her Book
2008 Fiber Arts, Textiles inspired by tradition
2006 Crafts, issue March/April, review of exhibition.
2006 Textiel Plus, review in Dutch Textile magazine
2006 Embroidery, Metal Guru interview
2003 View on Colour, issue 23, Visible skills of daily living
2002 Crafts, issue March/April, Domestic Science
1998 Embroidery, Unwinding the Thread
Television
2022 P’nawn Da feature for S4C
2013 P’nawn Da feature for S4C
2009 Sioe Gelf feature for S4C
2006 Sioe Gelf feature for S4C
2002 P’nawn Da feature for S4C digital
1999 Heno feature for S4C
1998 Sioe Gelf feature for S4C
Residencies
2017 Khamir, Gujarat,India.
2014 Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin.
2012 Crafts in the Bay, Cardiff
2007 National Wool Museum
2003 Caerfelin Primary School, Carmarthenshire
2002 Newcastle Emlyn Secondary School, Ceredigion
1984 South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire
1980 Spectro Arts Workshop, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lecturing
2004–19 Senior Lecturer, UWTSD /Swansea College of Art
2000–04 Senior Associate Lecturer, U.W.I.C. Cardiff
199I–00 Associate Lecturer, C.C.T.A. Carmarthen
1982–90 Associate Lecturer, Middlesex University
1981–83 Part-time Lecturer, Epsom School of Art and Design
1978–90 Part-time Lecturer, Berkshire College of Art, Design
Instagram: @juliagriffithsjones