Bethan Ash

I am a textile artist living and working in Neath, South Wales. I have been making art quilts for a very long time - over 30 years!
I love colour and use it for its contrasts and its vibrant and intense nature. I cut and fuse fabrics to make collage and am inspired by, urban, social and popular culture and natural forms. Making fabric collage is a natural outlet for my passion for cloth, for exploiting its possibilities and for providing a dialogue with the viewer. I believe that quilts are tactile evidence that we were here and have left something of value,as a mirror of ourselves and our accomplishments.


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1971-72 B.B.S.I. Fellowship, shoe design, Northampton Polytechnic
1968-71 Dip. AD Fashion, Cardiff College of Art
1965-68 Foundation, C&G Dress Design/textiles, Swansea College of Art

Found, Art Textiles - made in Britain, group exhibition.
NEC Birmingham August 2020
Wild, Art Textiles - made in Britain, group exhibition.
NEC Birmingham August 2018
Summer show Quilt Room, Llanidloes, Powys.
August 2018
Workshop at the Quilt Room, 1st Sept 2018.
Mysterious Landscapes exhibition, Welsh Assembly building, Cardiff. 12/12/20117 - 21/7/2018
Solo exhibition, Pontardawe Arts centre, Pontardawe, August - September
'In Our Minds’ There Are Many Rooms', travelling exhibition, opens Bangor Cathedral 28th Feb.
'Portrait,' Through Our Hands group exhibition, NEC, Birmingham
'Colour,' Itchy Fingers Group, Swansea Museum, Swansea

Stronger Together, DACs group, Touring exhibition, Wales
When Love Speaks, AitTV group, Pontardawe Arts Centre, Swansea
2016
'Move it for Money', Art & Craft Fair in aid of Guide Dogs Cymru, Victoria Gardens Community Centre, Neath.
Swansea Festival of Stitch, Swansea Museum
'Colour Shape & Form', an exhibition of art quilts, paintings and mosaics by Bethan Ash, Victoria Gardens Community Centre, Neath, 15th - 20th October. 10am - 4pm
Solo exhibition, Victoria Gardens Centre, Neath - 9th - 14th July,
2013 -2014
'Quilt Art in Russia', Tsaritsyno Museum, Moscow, 19 November
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