GAWAIN BARNARD
BIOGRAPHY
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 a personal yet strong aesthetic.
In 2021 and 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 held in numerous private collections.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2024-December, Transitional Echoes, Robert Maskrey Gallery
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2011-September, Maybe We’ll Be Soldiers, Ffotogallery, Cardiff
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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2025-May, Bay Open, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
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2023-October, Trails Exhibition, Turner House Gallery, Penarth. Wales
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2022-November, Selected and featured in AND 2022 some of the best up-and-coming influential documentary & portrait photographers from across the globe.
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2022-Honour mention-Belfast exposed International Photography festival
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2022-June - September, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
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2022-March, The Other Art Fair, Saatchi Art, London
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2022-March, Treeline at Nelly Duff Gallery, 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 Gallery, Chichester, National Open Art Competition, UK
2013-November, RizHoma Gallery, What's New UK Photography, Milan, Italy
2013-November, The Minerva Theatre, National Open Art Competition, Chichester, UK
2013-October, The Royal College of Art, National Open Art Competition, London
2013-April, Young boxers, Carlisle Photo Festival, UK
2012-November, 100 Years of Photography at Newport, University of Wales, Newport, Wales, UK
2012-February, Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery, New York. Emerging Artists Exhibition
2011-April, Journeys By Train exhibition on the Trans-Siberian Express, traveling from Moscow to Beijing
2010-October-November, Trace Gallery, Cornwall, UK
2010-July -September, Fotosommer Stuttgart, Germany
2010-May-June, Ffotocardiff: Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, UK
2010-February, Do I have to paint you a picture: Artist-led Polaroid showcase, Morgan Arcade, Cardiff, UK
2009-December, MFA Graduate show: Across the Line: Ffotogallery, Penarth. UK
2009-February, New shoots: The Centrespace, Bristol, UK
2008-January, Adult Adolescence: Ffloc Gallery, Centre for Photographic Research, Newport, UK
2007-March, Abandoned Chairs: Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK
1999-June, Swansea university graduate show the Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK
1999-April, Avenue X (A New York Exodus): The Chattery, Swansea, UK
AWARDS
2022 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitor
2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitor
2013 Winner of the NATIONAL OPEN ART EXHIBITION
2013 The ANEURIN MORGAN THOMAS Award: Best work from Wales
2011 Recipient of the individual artist grant from the Arts Council of Wales.
EDUCATION
MFA Documentary Photography, University of Wales, Newport. 2007-2009
PGCE (FE) Cardiff University, 2004-2005
BA (Hons) Photography In The Arts, Swansea Institute, University of Wales. 1996-1999
WORK
2018-2024: Tutor, Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University
2016-Ongoing: Instructor, Post Production, University of South Wales, Cardiff
2014 December- March 2015: Consultant for Rockwash prep and store, geological image and mapping
2011 January: Lecturer in Documentary Photography with the Ffotogallery, Cardiff
2006-2016: Technical Demonstrator at the University of South Wales, Newport
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