Originally from North Wales, Elin is currently wood-firing apprentice to Simon Levin at Mill Creek Pottery in Pawnee, IL, USA.
In 2022 she was recipient of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Young Artist Scholarship and one of nine artists selected from the Crafts Council Directory to feature in a showcase at Liberty London. Since graduating from the BA (Hons) Ceramics at Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2019, Elin has shown work in multiple exhibitions around the United Kingdom, including at London Craft Week, Circle Contemporary and her first solo show at Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw ‘Ar Ddaear Gofod Bach/On Earth a Little Space’.
Elin is a fluent Welsh speaker.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Broken Beauty’ Collaboration with Molton Brown showcased in July 2023 at Molton Brown’s Regent Street flagship store, London
2022 Ar Ddaear Gofod Bach/On Earth a Little Space. Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Llanbedrog
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Carbondale Clay Center Holiday Invitational, Carbondale, Colorado, USA
2023 Collect Art Fair with the Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Somerset House, London
2022 Y Lle Celf (National Eisteddfod Young Artist Scholarship). Tregaron, Ceredigion
2022 The Willow House. Twenty Twenty Gallery, Ludlow
2022 ‘The Gallery’ Liberty London x Crafts Council. Liberty London
2022 Focus on the Female: London Art Fair Edit. Business Design Centre, London
2022 Ash Ember Flame. Embassy of Japan, London
2021 It’s a Small World. Circle Contemporary Gallery, Cornwall
2021 An Artist in the World. Mission Gallery, Swansea
2021 Meaning Behind Materiality. The Gainsborough Hotel, South Kensington, London (Cynthia Corbett Showcase for London Craft Week)
2021 House of Pots. 20 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London
2021 Who Let the Dogs Out. Circle Contemporary Gallery, Cornwall
2021 Patterns of Self. Signifier Six Shot Gallery (Online)
2021 Mind the Gap. Circle Contemporary Gallery, Cornwall
2021 Showcase. Dover Street Market, Mayfair, London
2020 Young Welsh Artists/Artistiaid Ifanc Cymru. MOMA Machynlleth, Powys
2020 Umbrella Cardiff. Capitol Centre, Cardiff
2020 Tanio/Ignite: The Incubator Project. Aberystwyth Arts Centre Ceramics Gallery, Aberystwyth
2019 Young Masters Art Prize. La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London
2019 Jane Phillips Award Graduate Showcase. Mission Gallery, Swansea
2019 Answers on a Postcard. Exhibition Touring Art Schools in Gothenburg, Cardiff, Reykjavik and Limerick
2019 Art in Clay, Hatfield House
2019 Pyrophyte. Aracde Campfa, Cardiff
2019 New Designers, London
2019 CSAD Degree Show, Cardiff School of Art
2019 Golwg ar Gelf. Cardiff School of Art
2018 The Vessel. Nääs Konsthantverk, Floda, Sweden
2018 Gesamtkunstwerk. Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran
2018 Haptic. Three Doors Up, Cardiff – Curated by Heledd Evans
2017 Superbowl. Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023-Present Mill Creek Pottery Apprentice, Pawnee, USA
2023 Panellist at ‘Kiln Firers Roundtable’, International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth
2023 Kiln firing workshop assistant at Syracuse University, NY with Simon Levin (April)
2020-2023 Social Media, Admin and Marketing Assistant, International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth
2022 Wood Firing Young Artist in Residence, Guldagergaard, The International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark (3 months August-October)
2022 Assistant to Susanne Lukacs-Ringel, Mörsingen, Germany (6 weeks March-April)
2021 Co-leader at wood firing, Oxford Univeristy Anagama project, Wytham Woods
2021 Selected for ‘Crafting Business’ Crafts Council and Crafting Europe Mentoring Programme
2020-2021 Throwing Teacher at Dipsy Dragon, Dolgellau
2020 Anagama firing at the Oxford University Anagama project, Wytham Woods
2020 Residency at Ryall Hill Studios, Worcestershire
2020 Demonstration at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
2020 Studio Assistant to Michael Flynn
2019-2020 Graduate Residency at Cardiff School of Art and Design ‘Incubation Space’
2019 Anagama firing at the Oxford University Anagama project, Wytham Woods
2019 Vicarious Wednesday talk and demonstration. CSAD, Cardiff
2019 Video demonstration and work on display. Reinstating Clay Symposium, CSAD, Cardiff
2019 Residency at Ryall Hill Studios, Worcestershire
2019 Student demonstrator at the International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth
2019 Hey Clay! Performance ‘A Broken Sonnet’ at Cardiff Metropolitan University Cyncoed (with John Bennett)
2019 Demonstrator at CSAD Surfacing Extravaganza with Reykjavik School of Art
2019 Throwing demonstrator at Cardiff School of Art Sorrell Saturday Club
2018 Wood kiln building workshop with Joe Finch
2018 Studying ceramics abroad on Erasmus at HDK, Gothenburg, Sweden (6 months)
STOCKISTS
2021 Civil Dawn Studio, Melbourne, Australia
2021 CIRCLE Contemporary, North Cornwall, UK
2020 Dylanwad Da, Dolgellau, UK
2020 Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, UK
2019 Celf Aran Arts, Dolgellau, UK
2018 Duke Street Arcade Pop-up Shop, Cardiff, UK
2018 Ett-Sju, Jonsered, Sweden
AWARDS
2023 Arts Council Wales International Opportunities Fund to attend NCECA, Ohio
2022 Arts Council Wales ‘Create’ Grant to fund 18 month apprenticeship
2022 North Wales America Foundation Grant
2022 The Geoffrey Crawshay Memorial Travelling Scholarship
2022 Ysgoloriaeth Artist Ifanc yr Eisteddfod/National Eisteddfod of Wales Young Artist Scholarship
2022 The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust Grant
2022 Dr Daniel Williams Educational Fund Grant
2019 Selected for Arts Council Wales and Potclays funded Incubator Project
2019 Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize Shortlisted
2019 Potclays Graduate Award for Innovations in Clay
2019 Cardiff Metropolitan University Flash Fund
2017 Patricia Penn Bursary Fund
EDUCATION
2016-2019 Cardiff Metropolitan University. BA (Hons) Ceramics
2018 HDK, Gothenburg. BA (Hons) Ceramics - Erasmus
2015-2016 Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor, Dolgellau. BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
WRITING
‘The Erasmus Effect’, Ceramic Review Magazine, July/August 2021, Issue 310 Pages 49-51
PRESS/MEDIA
2023
Ninnau, The North American Welsh Newspaper, Vol 49 No.1 Jan-Feb 2024 pg.6
’A Welsh Potter in Pawnee’
2021
Llygad y Dydd, April 2021, Issue 30 pg.5
Interview with Lisa Eurgain Taylor on Radio Cymru, Dros Ginio hefo Vaughan Roderick, March 31st 2021
Interview on Radio Cymru, Rhaglen Geraint Lloyd, March 17th 2021
Feature on Heno S4C, Tuesday March 9th 2021
Golwg Magazine, February 8th 2021, volume 33, issue 23 ‘Creu Potiau Pync i Gyfeiliant y Gorillaz’, pg.22-23
2020
Studio Potter Magazine Feburary 2020 issue ‘Tanio/Ignite (The Incubator Project)
Ceramic Review Issue 302, March/April 2020 (50th Anniversary Edition) ‘News Round-up’ pg.10
Ceramics Monthly March 2020 issue, pg.18
2019
Interview on Radio Cymru, Rhaglen Geraint Lloyd, October 8th 2019
Cambrian News, Thursday October 3rd 2019 ‘Talented Young Ceramicist in running for top award’
Llygad y Dydd, October 2019, Issue 13 ‘Seren Serameg’
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
University of Oxford Anagama Kilns Handling Collection
Aberystwyth University Ceramics Collection
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
2017, 2018 Festival Volunteer at Art in Clay, Hatfield
2017 Festival Volunteer at International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth
2017 ‘ChARTism on the Hill’- Heritage Lottery Funded community based project in Newport
2016, 2017 Festival Volunteer at Made by Hand, Cardiff