Eifion Sven-Myer
Address
Phone Number
Email Address
33 Kilchattan Drive, Glasgow, G44 4PZ
07923866660
eifionsvenmyer@gmail.com
Education
University: The Glasgow School of Art
Dates: Sept 2018 - Sept 2019
Qualifications: Masters of Letters Fine Art Practice Painting
Graduated with Distinction
University: Swansea College of Art UWTSD
Dates: Sept 2013 –June 2015
Qualifications: BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting and Drawing - Graduated with First Class Honours
University: The University of the Creative Arts (Farnham)
Dates: Sept 2010 – May 2011
Qualifications: Completed first year of BA (Hons) Animation
College: Coleg Ceredigion, Aberystwyth
Dates: Sept 2007 – May 2009
Qualifications: BTEC National Diploma in Fine Art and Design – Distinction Merit Merit, AS English Literature
Speaks Welsh fluently.
Exhibitions, Work and Residencies
February 2024: Exhibiting in Glasgow Art Club Spring Show
December 2023: Exhibited in Glasgow Art Club Winter Show Anything Goes
October 2023: Selected for The Scottish Prize for Fine Art exhibition in The Glasgow Art Club with the painting: Tenement Interior, Absence
April 2023: Exhibited solo show Quiet Studio Plant Fire at Salt Space Glasgow
May 2021: Exhibited furniture made in end of year show at Cardigan College UWTSD
September 2019 - September 2020: Worked on Painting Commissions via Artbrief.com
August 2019: The Glasgow School of Art Graduate Degree Show
May 2019: Exhibited in group show Hopelessly Devoted in The Garment Factory, Glasgow
September 2018: Begun a
Masters of Letters Fine Art Practice - Painting
in The Glasgow School of Art.
April 2018: Solo show in Swansea Grand Theatre Art's Wing
August 2017: Solo show in Arcadecardiff gallery in Cardiff
July 2017: Received Funding from Arts Council of Wales
May 2017: Was a part of performance Fluggulssohn Fest 2017 in Art Car Bootique in Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff
March –May 2017: Mural commission in Maes Gogerddan, Aberystwyth titled: Aberystwyth Amalgamation
March 2017: Exhibited a collaboration with Laura Simmons, a kinetic sculptural painting Idiosyncratic Orbit in The End is by Yur group show in Elysium gallery
January 2017: Created poster for Artes Mundi
November 2016: Exhibited kinetic sculptural painting Hemispheres as part of a selection of Beep artists in Arcadecardiff.
September 2016 – February 2017: Started a 5 month contract as a LiveGuide for Artes Mundi working in both the National Museum Cardiff and Chapter Art Centre.
August- October 2016: Figures in a Regurgitated Landscape was accepted into Beep Painting Prize shown in Swansea College of Art and Undegun, Wrexham.
Exhibited 2 sculptural paintings including Figure Transpiring from a Canvas Painting in Painting Parallels and a painting in The Painters Studio both on separate levels of The Grand Theatre Swansea.
July 2016: Artist in resident for Beep International Painting Prize, created work in Elysium's Is This/This Is project space.
May 19 - 26 2016: Exhibited Split Slumber as part of Swansea College of Art's artist in resident group show Augment in thebloc gallery.
April 16 - June 15 2016: Created and exhibited Obscured Light - MisshapenVistas in Oriel Davies' Test Bed Space during their Open Painting show.
March- June 2016: Helped to set up and run High Street gallery in Swansea thebloc and exhibited several times during this period.
March 2016: Received funding from Arts Council of Wales.
January- March 2016: Was an artist in resident in g39 contemporary art gallery, Cardiff as part of the UNIT(e) programme where I developed Meandering Borderlines.
October 31 2015: Was part of open studios in Elysium’s 8th Birthday celebration.
October 2015: Exhibited Dimensions Painting in Artist in Resident show in Swansea College of Art.
September 2015: Began a paid part-time year-long artist residency with the Fine Art department in Swansea College of Art UWTSD.
August 2015: Exhibited three paintings in Colony Blast group show in Port Talbot.
July 2015: Exhibited collection of work as part of Elysium’s open studios.
June- July 2015: Residency, created installation piece Intersecting Boundaries in Elysium’s Is This/This Is space.
May 2015: Exhibited series of paintings in Je Suis Degree Show Swansea College of Art UWTSD.
April 2015: Exhibited with Ryan Courtier in CB, Swansea.
January 2015: Succeeded to short-list stage in Signature Art prize with painting Homo Sapien.
November2014: Exhibited two paintings in group show in Monkey Bar, Swansea.
July 2014: Exhibited triptych in the open studios in residency at the Funkhaus, Berlin.
June 2014: Exhibited large series of paintings in the end of second year of BA in the Atrium of Swansea College of Art.
March 2014: Exhibited in group show III in Swansea College of Art.
February 2014: Exhibited two paintings in group show Gordon Gordon in Elysium Gallery, Swansea.
January 2014: Solo show in Swansea College of Art corridor.
July- August 2013: Commission, painted an instillation UV mural in the communal showers of The Happy Hippy Hostel in Kardjali, Bulgaria.
January 2013: Residency with organic paper making artist in Santa Clara Saboia, Portugal.
August- November 2012: Commission,painted an installation mural in a double bedroom in Termas Da Azenha Boutique Hotel, Figueira, Portugal.
May- July 2012: Residency in an independent gallery Imágenes y Palabras, was co-curator for a group show and as a project created a tattoo design for a worker there, Burgos region, Spain.
March 2012: Commission, painted two murals in guest bedrooms in Termas Da Azenha Boutique Hotel, Figueira, Portugal.
March 2011: Solo show of my experiences of volunteering in Kenya, exhibition shown in the Arad Goch theatre Aberystwyth, as well as selected pieces shown across venues in Grimsby, Bristol and Cardiff.
June 2009: Exhibited Polyptych Sculpture Figures in Containment in Coleg Ceredigion group show in Aberystwyth Art Centre.