Bethan Lloyd Worthington
Born 1982
Lives and works in London
2010 MA Ceramics and Glass, Royal College of Art
2006 BDes 3D Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
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- Solo Exhibitions
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2018
“Windswept Baby”, in collaboration with invited writers, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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2017
“Shell-Lit Siambr”, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury (Curated by Katie McGown)
Residency display, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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- Group Exhibitions
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2023
“New Areas: Contemporary Ceramics at Walmer Yard”, Walmer Yard, London
“New Areas: Contemporary Ceramics at Newstead Abbey”, Newstead Abbey, Nottingham
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2021
“Pleasure Garden”, Deene Park, Corby (Curated by Amy Lay-Pettifer)
“Come to Naught”, Kingsgate Project Space, London (Curated by Kristian Day)
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2020
“Jerwood Makers Open”, touring Manchester Art Gallery, Visual Arts Centre and Torre Abbey
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2019
“Odds”, TOMA Project Space, Southend.
“Art Night Open with SHELL LIKE”, Walthamstow
“Verso Nuovi Canoni”, ICA Milano
“Jerwood Makers Open”, Jerwood Space, London
“Ffynnon Gwenfaen”, Studio Cybi at Gwenfaen’s Well, Holy Island, Anglesey -
2018
“Bound Art Book Fair”, The Whitworth, Manchester
“Oriel Davies Open”, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
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2017
“The John Ruskin Prize”, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
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2015
“Award”, British Ceramics Biennial
“Many a Slip”, Marsden Woo, London (Curated by Alison Britton)
Shelfie, Studio Manifold select from the V&A collection
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2014
“Pots and Possibilities”, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London
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2013
“Under The Influence & Unfold”, Siobhan Davies Studios, with Manifold, London
“Danske Oldtidsminder”, Apple House Gallery, Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark
“Creekside Open 2013”, Selected by Ceri Hand, A.P.T. Gallery, London
“The Reveal” (Streethouse Excavations Residency), Class 1 Gallery, Saltburn
Forming Words, Flow Gallery, London -
2012
“Appropriate Response”, Vulpes Vulpes, London
“The Art of Survival and The Ritual Killing of Objects”, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
“This Is How To Live, Studio Manifold & National Trust”, 2 Willow Road & Red House, London -
2011
“Jerwood Drawing Prize”, Jerwood Space, London
“Fresh”, BCB, Stoke-On-Trent
“Stick-Up”, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent
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2010
HotShoe Gallery, London & Galleria Uno Pia Uno, Milan
“SHOW1”, The Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, London
“Oberon Illustration Awards”, RCA, London
“Einfall”, The Freud Museum, London
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- Commissions
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2022
Town Hall Hotel, London (Curated by Artsadmin)
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- Awards
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2019
Arts Council England DYCP
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2018
Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, Windswept Baby at the V&A
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2017
The John Ruskin Prize, Second Prize
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2011
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Shortlisted
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2010
John Norris Wood Natural Forms Drawing Prize
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2009
Craft Potters Association Charitable Trust, St Petersburg research trip
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- Residencies
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2017-16
Artist in Residence, Victoria & Albert Museum, Ceramics
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2016
Grizedale Arts, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
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2015
Grizedale Arts, Coniston
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2014
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London
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2013
Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark
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2012
Airspace Gallery & Potteries Museum, Conjunction 12, The Art of Survival
Street House Archaeological Dig, Loftus, North Yorkshire
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2009
Royal Crown Derby Factory, Derby
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- Collections
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National Art Library, V&A, UK
National Museums Liverpool
Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections
The Grainer Collection of Contemporary British Studio Ceramics, US
The Harris Museum, Preston
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- Publications
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2023
Alison Britton, “Seeing Things”, Occasional Papers, Second Edition
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2021
Amy Lay-Pettifer, “Pleasure Garden”, Design Print Bind
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2019
Jerwood Makers Open 2019 catalogue, introductory essay by curator Harriet Cooper and High Winds by Elinor Morgan
Joseph Constable, “Trailings” (online essay)
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2018
“Windswept Baby”, book as part of collaborative project at the V&A including poetry, fiction and prose by Lucy Biddle, Kayo Chingonyi, Megan Nolan, Amy Lay-Pettifer, Luke Turner and Jack Underwood. Design: Under the Shade of a Tree
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2017
“Shell-Lit Siambr”, catalogue essays What do we have to do with this old road, and the people who travelled along it 600 years ago? by curator Katie McGown, and The Giraffe Invites You to do the Same, by poet Jack Underwood. Design: Fraser Muggeridge Studio
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2008
Fragiles, Die Gestalten Verlag
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- Writings by the artist
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“The Ambataros || The Witness Section”, 2020, artists book produced at London Centre for Book Arts.
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“Making all the greens unstable”, leaflet work produced as part of Jerwood Makers Open 2019.
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“The filthy wallpaper or Sill Sigilata”, Commissioned by artist Emily Speed as part of the book TERRA COTTA.
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“The image of wherever it is placed”, Commissioned by designer Ian McIntyre for the launch of the re-engineered Brown Betty teapot.