Biography

Perryn Butler Sculptor Born 1953

Biography

Perryn Butler was born in Malta 1953. She grew up in Pembrokeshire with artist mother Bim and her stepfather Arthur Giardelli , surrounded by a wonderful collection of contemporary art which she absorbed by osmosis.

She attended Carmarthen College Of Art from 1983-87 studying sculpture and design,

and has been working as a sculptor in Wales, for 30 years. Her sculptures have been commissioned and bought by collectors worldwide from Europe to Australia, Asia, and the Americas. And they grace such public places as the Environment Agency in Ireland, the National Library of Wales and the Centre for European Culture in Germany.

Tel-01437-621759- email [email protected] www.perryn-butler.co.uk

Selected Exhibitions

Abergevenny Castle

Solo show Kooywood, Gallery, Cardiff

Fulham Palace, London

Martin Tinney Gallery Cardiff, “Welsh Artists of The 20^th Century”

Two man show with David Tress at The Albany, Cardiff

Artsparks International, Geurnsay

The Lion St Gallery, Hay On Wye

Y Oriel Gallery Newport,

Harbour Lights Gallery, Porthgain

Erwood Station Gallery, Mid Wales solo show

Oriel Bevin Jones Gallery Solo show

Fulham Palace Gardens

International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth

National Botanic Gardens, Wales

Form Contemporary Gallery, Bleanavon, Brecon

Picton Castle The Artist And The Gardener with Sculpture Cymru

Nantycoy May Solo Exhibition “Dancing The Stone”

MOMA Machynlleth, group show “Welsh Artists.”

Celia Purcell Contemporary, London

“Equus”, Margham Park, Swansea

San Francisco, U.S.A.

“Out Of The Silence”, One Man Show, Tenby Museum Gallery,

Two Man Show “Rites Of Passage” Wexford Ireland

Solo Show “See Touch And Play” Pembroke dock Library

Solo Show, Milford Docks “Tall Ships”

Highgate Gallery, London Mixed exhibition

Millennium Prize winners show Carmarthen Library

National Eisteddfod

Old Courthouse Gallery Ambleside, Cumbria

Education

2000 Cert of Education

1987 H.N.D Craft Design and Sculpture C.C.T.A. Carmarthen

1985 O.N.D Sculpture and Restoration Carmarthen college of Art

1972 Business studies Diploma Neyland Tech

Employment

Twenty nine years as a self-employed sculptor and community artist.

2010-2012 Musical Director of Cauldrons and Furnaces- an Olympiad Project

1998-2008 Arts Care, St Davids Hospital, Carmarthen. Freelance teaching in Mental Health and The Crown prosecution Service

1996-1998 Brookwood Mental Hospital/Farnham Rd Hospital teaching sculpture and one to one therapy sessions with acutely mentally ill.

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

South Hook and Qatar 10th Anniversary

Crymych “Gateway to the Preselis “sculpture

Lamphey School Centenary carving

Pembroke Dock Heritage Project Six large stone reliefs cast into bronze.

Large stone carving for Private Garden, John Green, private collector.

Stackpole Centre—Stone Head

Large stone carving “Winter Birds” Mr Huckle, Cardiff

Milford haven Andy Beazley, Mother and Child

Haverfordwest County Show Ground Two carved oak trees

Susan Tobe, London “Conception” Slate wall relief

Mr Mike Forwood, Swansea, carved stone Head

Kenny Lim, Bangkok two large stone carvings

Dr Barbara Adam Newport-“Tribe”

Pembroke Town trail- The Pembroke Story-three of twelve panels.

Kerry Stratton, Sydney Australia, “Requiem” Slate sculpture

Walled Garden at Rhosygilwen “Lovers” stone relief carving

Gwndwn, Cardigan “The Game” Land art Slate, earth and wood

Sarah Holgate, Aberaeron- Wall relief

S. Behrens North Yorkshire- stone Birdbath

Charlotte Skuratowicz, Berlin-“Fish”

Milford Docks Company-“Metamorphosis” Construction of objects Trouve’

Milford Docks Company-“Saints” Wall Relief

Mrs Mel Calder Solva – Bronze “return Of the Child”

Mr Roger Higham, Haverfordwest, Gemini, stone carving

Mrs C juler, large stone lovers, Cardigan

Robert Hughes of New York, U.S. A. Wall relief “The Circles of Life”

Farnham Rd Hospital, Surrey- Nine squares, wall relief, plaster and wood

Janet Davies, Pembroke, Triptych Slate relief

Susan Roberts Cardiff. Bronze relief Celts

Celia Purcell, London, Bronze Wall relief

Daniel Claydon, France, Four tall carved stone figures

Richard Jones, Haverfordwest. Stone Angel

Mr R Walton, Broadhaven, Stone garden piece

Mrs G Waterstone, Co Leitrim, Ireland Celtic Ancestor Figure

Penny Menuge, Surrey, Stone Goddess

Mrs Lizzy Beer, Cardiganshire “On the Threshold” Bronze

Mrs E. Lewis, Sussex, Triptych slate relief

“Coming Home” Stone carving John Green, Private collector

“Ensemble” Stone carving, John Green, Pembrokeshire