Gawain Barnard

Gawain Barnard is a Welsh Photographic artist whose work merges a documentary style with poetic sensibilities to create a constructed visual narrative. Whether through long-term projects that adopt the familiar scope of landscape and portrait to construct a semi-fictionalised chronicle or via the individual image that is created as a lyrical portrait, his work has an individual yet strong aesthetic.
In 2021 & 2022 his work was selected for the Royal Academy Summer exhibition, in 2013 he was the winner of the 2013 Aneurin Morgan Thomas award for best artwork from Wales as part of the National Art Open, and was a featured artist of the 2014 Eisteddfod. He is the recipient of Arts Council awards and his work has been shown nationally and internationally and is part of numerous private collections.
Gawain's work is sold through Nelly Duff Gallery, London.

MFA Documentary Photography, University of Wales, Newport. 2007-2009


BA (Hons) Photography In The Arts, Swansea Institute, University of Wales. 1996-1999

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.

2022  Ways of Living - Then There Was Us, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom. 

2021 September-January 2022- Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.

2018 Shortlisted for Athens Photo festival

2016 March, Maybe we'll be soldiers: Annenberg Space for Photography, L.A., USA

2016 February-April, Common Ground: A Fine Beginning & Document Scotland, Wales Millennium Centre, Wales, UK

2016 March, A Fine Beginning exhibition: Made in Wales, Oriel Colwyn, Wales, UK

2015 November, A Fine Beginning exhibition: Made in Wales, Carousel, London, UK

2015 September, A Fine Beginning exhibition: Made in Wales, Cardiff Made, Wales, UK

2014 August - 1 October, A Fine Beginning exhibition: Common Ground, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow

2014 September - November, A Fine Beginning exhibition: Made in Wales, Oriel Colwyn, Wales, UK

2014 August 1st-9th, Boredom to Burn, National Eisteddfod, Llanelli, Wales, UK

2014 March, Arcade Cardiff, A Fine beginning exhibition: Made in Wales, Cardiff, UK

2014 March, Ty Crawshay Gallery, University of South Wales

2013 December, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York

2013 December, Pallant House Galle...