Eleri Mills, Catalogue

ELERI MILLS

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Breconshire ponies (Meirch ym Mrycheiniog) ink, pastel, charcoal on paper - 59 x 86cm

ELERI MILLS

Spirit of the Land 31 May – 17 June 2022

PREVIEW DAYS Thursday 26 May Friday 27 May Saturday 28 May

The entire exhibition can be viewed at www.thackeraygallery.com The exhibition continues until 1pm on 17 June 2022 All work is available to purchase now

18 THACKERAY STREET

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KENSINGTON

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LONDON

W8 5ET

www.thackeraygallery.com | enquiries@thackeraygallery.com | 020 7937 5883

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Spirit of the Land energy

Wales 70’s music

peace belonging

space reflection

sense of place story telling

delight in life poetry

land flow 2

passing through

reverie

Arcadia - revisited (Argoed - ailymweliad) paint, ink, pastel and charcoal on paper – 57 x 76cm 3

Through the trees (Trwy’r coed) ink, pastel, charcoal on paper - 36 x 123cm

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The path (Y llwybr) ink on paper - 28 x 38cm 6

In the garden II (Yn yr ardd o gariad II) ink, pastel & charcoal on paper - 30 x 46cm

Maytime (Carol hâf) paint and ink on board - 20 x 26cm

Procession I (Gorymdaith I) paint, ink & pastel on khadi paper - 21 x 38cm 7

In the valley - river of the heart (Yn y dyffryn - afon y galon) ink, pastel, charcoal on paper - 69 x 102cm 8

In the valley - midsummer (Yn y dyffryn - ganol hâf) ink, pastel, charcoal on paper - 69 x 102cm 9

This leaf... (‘Y ddeilen hon…’) paint, ink, pastel and charcoal on paper - 57 x 76cm 10

Borderland (Y Dref Wen) paint, ink, pastel and charcoal on paper - 57 x 76cm 11

In the garden I (Yn yr ardd o gariad I) ink, pastel, charcoal on paper - 59 x 86cm 12

Capel y Ffin ponies (Merlod Capel y Ffin) – ink, pastel and charcoal on paper – 17 x 50cm

Travelling along the mountain track I (Teithio ar hyd ffordd y mynydd I) – ink, pastel and charcoal on paper – 28 x 77cm

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Farewell summer pasture (Ffarwel Ffridd Cringae) paint, ink, pastel and charcoal on paper - 37 x 55cm 14

The rite of spring (‘Y Gwanwyn pêr o’r pridd’) paint, ink, pastel and charcoal on paper - 53 x 119cm 15

The messenger (Llatai) paint, ink, pastel and charcoal on paper - 57 x 76cm 16

Borderland horses (Meirch ar y ffin) paint, ink, pastel and charcoal on paper - 57 x 76cm 17

Mountain tracks (Llwybrau’r mynydd) ink, charcoal and pastel on paper - 35 x 156cm

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Pink Moon paint and ink on khadi paper - 70 x 103cm 20

Poet Reclining (Bardd yn ei awen) paint and ink on khadi paper - 70 x 103cm 21

In the valley - mountain track I (Yn y dyffryn - ffordd y mynydd I) ink, pastel, charcoal on paper - 69 x 102cm 22

In the valley - mountain track II (Yn y dyffryn - ffordd y mynydd I) ink, pastel, charcoal on paper - 69 x 102cm 23

Pink Moon II paint, hand stitching and appliqué on calico - 38 x 60cm 24

Garden (Cynefin) paint, hand stitching and appliqué on linen - 45 x 69cm 25

Travelling along the mountain track II (Teithio ar hyd ffordd y mynydd II) ink, pastel, charcoal on paper - 28 x 77cm 26

In the valley - towards the bridge II (Yn y dyffryn - tuag at y bont II) ink, pastel, charcoal on paper - 69 x 102cm 27

Mountain stream I (Nant y mynydd I) paint and ink on khadi paper - 57 x 77cm 28

Mountain stream II (Nant y mynydd I) paint and ink on khadi paper - 57 x 77cm 29

In the valley - through the Trees (Yn y dyffryn - trwy’r coed) ink, pastel and charcoal on paper - 69 x 102cm 30

In the valley - through the Trees (Yn y dyffryn - trwy’r coed) ink, pastel and charcoal on paper - 69 x 102cm 31

BIOGRAPHY Eleri Mills was born in Mid Wales in 1955, She completed a BA Hons in Art and Design at Manchester Polytechnic from 1974-1977. In the late 1970’s, Eleri worked from a studio in Manchester, and from 1988, she returned to live and work in rural Mid Wales. In 2010 she won the Arts Council of Wales’ Creative Wales Ambassador award followed by a three month residency in New York at Columbia University and a showing at SOFA NYC (the international art fair for Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art) at Park Avenue Armory. Other residencies include Ruthin Craft Centre and Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi in 2016. Her work is featured in national collections which include the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Eleri is an elected Member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and has been represented by Thackeray Gallery since 2000 SOLO EXHIBITIONS FROM 1995 – PRESENT: Museu Textil i d’Indumentaria, Barcelona (Wales in Catalonia Festival) & UK tour; The Tabernacle, Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Wales; Galeri Betws y Coed, Wales; National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff; Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff; Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales; Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales; Twenty Twenty Gallery, Ludlow; Thackeray Gallery, London SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Eleri Mills has exhibited extensively in many mixed exhibitions around the world, to include: New York, Poland, France, Budapest, Madrid, Japan, Chicago, London and her native Wales CORPORATE COLLECTIONS: Contemporary Art Society for Wales; National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh; MOMA Wales/Cymru, Collection, Machynlleth; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; Contemporary Art Society for Wales (etching commissioned for Year of the Artist portfolio 2000); Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester; National Farmers Union Mutual and Avon Insurance, Headquarters, Stratford upon Avon; Embroiderers Guild Collection, Hampton Court Palace AWARDS, RESIDENCES & COMMISSIONS FROM 1999 – PRESENT: 1987 Gold Medal for Craft, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Porthmadog; 1999, Award for most outstanding exhibit, “Art of the Stitch” exhibition, Barbican, London; 2008, Winner of the Painting Prize and Runner-up for Welsh Artist of the Year Award, St David’s Hall, Cardiff; 2010/11, Winner of the Creative Wales Ambassador Award. Arts Council of Wales, Winner of the Kyffin Williams Drawing Prize 2021 32

Above: Eleri Mills handstiching “Pink Moon II”

Front Cover: Borderland (Y Dref Wen) - paint, ink, pastel and charcoal on paper - 57 x 76cm Back Cover: creating “Travelling along the mountains track I” from photographs First Published in 2022 by Thackeray Gallery Ltd, 18 Thackeray Street, Kensington, London.

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