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Meri Wells Born in 1946, Meri Wells studied Art at Sutton & Epsom Schools of Art, followed by Art and Drama at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Based in mid-Wales, she is a ceramic sculptor whose studio and workshop is in a beautiful old house near Machynlleth. Here she produces both raku and wood-fired figurative sculptures using clays, some of which she digs locally. Part human, part animal or bird, her creatures suggest emotions and tensions that lie under the surface of all human relationships.

Meri is a National Advisor to the Arts Council of Wales, and was elected both to the Royal Cambrian Academy and the International Academy of Ceramics in 2007.

Collections

Townley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley Collection of the Artist's Union, Latvia Czech Agency of Ceramic Design, Czech Republic City Art Gallery and Museum, Panevezys, Lithuania International Ceramics Studio Kecskemet, Hungary Saltzbrand Collection Coblenz, Germany Ceramics Collection, University of Wales Aberystwyth Sculpture Park, Kastiel Pusty Chotar Beladice, Slovenska Republika Tabernacle Trust Public Collection, Machynlleth Collection, Estonian Association of Ceramic Arts, Kohila, Estonia National Museum of Wales Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth Fuping Pottery Art Museum, XiAn, China Newport City Museum and Art Gallery, Gwent Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery

Awards 2011 Wakeline Purchase Prize, Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea 2010 Grant towards purchase of kiln: Cyfle Creu 2009 Elizabeth Wait Purchase Prize, Newport City Museum and Art Gallery, Gwent 2008 Wales Arts International Travel Grant; Assembly of International Academy of Ceramics XiAn, China 2004 Wales Arts International Special Project Bursary; Hlobani homestead, Swaziland 2001 Arts Council of Wales Special Project Grant; Porcelain Symposium, Siklos, Hungary 1996 Arts Council of Wales Special Project Grant; Arts Symposium, Latvia 1992 Scholarship; International Ceramic Studio, KecskemÃ©t, HungaryMarian Delyth

Contents
Education
 * 1 Life and work

1972 - 73 Cardiff College of Art, Foundation Course

1973 - 76 Gwent College of Higher Education, B.A. Hons. Graphic Design

1976 - 77 City of Birmingham Polytechnic, M. A. Graphic Design / Photography

Exhibitions
 * 2 Awards

2015 Enlli - a selection from Enlli:Tu Hwnt i'r Swnt photographs of life on Bardsey Island

2014 60 - 60 pictures from six decades - National Library of Wales

2013 Capel - Morlan Centre

2007 Ail Filltir -ocumentary television programme and exhibition of the Mynydd Bach documentary project

2005 Dilyn Oi Troed / Tracing Footsteps - Amgueddfa Ceredigion Aberystwyth
 * 4 Books
 * 5 Collections
 * 6 References
 * 7 Sources
 * 8 External links
 * 7 Sources
 * 8 External links