Perryn Butler CV
Perryn Butler Sculptor Born 1953
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
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
Selected Residencies and short projects
2011 Workshops for Olympiad project under Art’s Care
2011 Master carving course at Boulston Manor
2010 A Taste of Carving. Trelech October
2010 Stone Carving in The Round, Boylston Manor
2010 Carving for beginners Nant Y Coy Arts Centre
2009 Relief Carving course at Boulston Manor
2009 Celtic Carving course Trelech
2009 Workshops at Waunifor annual Art Show, Carmarthenshire.
2008 Master class course At Rhosygilwen Arts Centre
2008 Community Arts Workshops, Carmarthenshire
2007” Carving in the Round “Nanty Coy Art Centre, Trefgarn May and June
2007 Summer School teaching stone carving, Wales
2007 Abstract Carving, Boulston Manor, Wales
2006 Pembroke Castle Medieval and Viking Carving Project
2005/06 Research projects in Pennar Infants School
2005/6 Community research Project, Records office and Library, Haverfordwest
2005 Lamphey School drawing project,
2005 Golden Grove Junior School, Drawing project, Pembroke
2005/6 Adult research project, Pembroke 21 C community Group
Residencies and teaching pre-2007
Stackpole Centre for the disabled, “Sculpture for all”
St Davids Mental Hospital, a series of projects teaching stone carving
Glangwili Hospital, stone carving.
Priory Day Centre, Carmarthen, regular teaching for crown Prosecution Service
Haverfordwest Day Centre, regular teaching for crown Prosecution service
St John’s Day Centre, Pembroke, a stone carving project
Withybush Hospital, E. M. I. unit, Haverfordwest, Valentines Project
Milford Docks Company, Resident sculptor for three years.
Farnham Rd Hospital, Surrey Project with in patients
Brookwood Hospital, Surrey Mixed client project
Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire. Sessions for inmates
Cenefin community Project Fishguard
Gypsy unit Monkton, heritage Project
Selected Exhibitions
2015 Oriel Bevin Jones Gallery, Carmarthen
2015 Swansea Museum
2014 The late November Gallery Wales
2013 Solo show Kooywood, Gallery, Cardiff-October
2013 Fulham Palace Gardens-May-Art Fair
2013 International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth, June
2013 National Botanic Gardens, Wales two pieces
2012 Kooywood gallery, Cardiff-group show
2012 Parallax Art fair Chelsea London
2010 Form Contemporary Gallery, Bleanavon, Brecon-group show
2010 Old Courthouse Gallery, Amble side, Cumbria-group show
2009 Two man show with David Tress at The Albany, Cardiff
2009 Picton Castle The Artist And The Gardener with Sculpture Cymru
2008/09 Art Matters Gallery Tenby-in gallery
2007/08 Nantycoy May Solo Exhibition “Dancing The Stone”
2008 Rhosygilwen, Cardigan, May, group show
2007 MOMA Machynlleth, group show “Welsh Artists.”
2007/08 Celia Purcell Contemporary, London-in gallery
2007/2014 Annual Group Show, Arts Parks, Guernsey-internet
2007 Sculpture Cymru Travelling Exhibition group show
Centre For European Culture, Otzenhausen, Germany, May
London, July, Barry Town Hall, Glamorgan Aug
2006 “Equus”, Margham Park, Swansea-with Sculpture Cymru
2006 Opening of National Assembly Building TV Program by BBC Wales
2006 San Francisco, U.S.A. Welsh arts and crafts group Show
2005 “Out Of The Silence”, One Man Show, Tenby Museum Gallery,
Selected Pre- 2005 Exhibitions
Martin Tinney Gallery Cardiff, “Welsh Artists of The 20th Century”
Two Man Show “Rites Of Passage” Wexford Ireland
Solo Show “See Touch And Play” Pembroke dock Library
Gwndwn, Cardigan, Art in the Landscape Performance Art
Solo Show, Milford Docks “Tall Ships”
Highgate Gallery, London Mixed exhibition
Carpet Gallery, Farnham, Solo Show
Millennium Prize winners show Carmarthen Library
National Eisteddfod