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
Oriel Q Narberth Mixed media- August 2021
Studio Cennan, Llandeilo-Ocean Deep Emotion Sept 14th-Oct 8th 2021
The Arts Centre Aberystwyth -Sculpture Cymru- Oct 2nd- N0vember
Ongoing-Harbour Lights Gallery, Porthgain
Oriel Bevin Jones, Carmarthen
The Lion St Gallery Hay On Wye
Abergavenny Castle
Solo show Kooywood, Gallery, Cardiff
Fulham Palace, London
Martin Tinney Gallery Cardiff, “Welsh Artists of The 20th 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
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