Inside and Out
Dilys Jackson
7th March - 18th April

Dilys Jackson’s works derive from her outer and inner environment from which she sees a kinaesthetic relationship between land or plant forms and those of the human body. These particular pieces echo the golden rounded slopes of the South Wales valleys and the wild waters that spring from them. The materials of which the works are made have an intrinsic weight and presence, but there is also a sensation of their mass and contained spaces which derives from the perceived processes of movement which appear to have formed them. Each work has formal elements of mass and division and of contrasting textures. They embody the dynamic balance between pressure of weight and the release of pressure, between the form and mould of male and female and between inner and outer space.
Jackson lives in Cardiff and works at the Butetown Artists Studios and Berllanderi Sculpture Workshop. She has travelled and worked across the world. She has had work in exhibitions in Wales, Ireland, Sweden, France, Spain and America. She is an elected Associate of The Royal British Society of Sculptors, a member of The 56 Group Wales, The Welsh Group, Sculpture Cymru, The Women's Arts Association and the Contemporary Art Society of Wales.

"Dilys Jackson is one of Wales' most daring artistic explorers. The book, Dilys Jackson Sculptor, offers an insight into the humanity and passion, which has always informed the making process of her elegant but austere abstractions."
Robert McDonald

Selected Exhibitions / Commissions
2000 Copper Mill Millennium Sculpture:
Greenfield Valley, Flint
2003 Solo: Oriel Y Bont,
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd
Solo: New Hall, Cambridge
2004 Bretanya Catalunya Galles:
Landivisau, Barcelona,
2005 Crossing Over:
Waterford, Ireland and Aberystwyth
2006 Symposium: Cast Iron Sculpture:
The Gallery, Cowcross St, London
2007 Female Frame:
The Art Shop Gallery, Abergavenny
2008 Hiraeth: Otzenhausen, London, Barry

Her work may be seen at:
The Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, England

Web site: www.dilysjackson.co.uk
Email: dilysjackson@yahoo.co.uk

Dilys Jackson: Sculptor ISBN 0-9544439-0-X