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BEEP Friends of The Glynn Vivian Prize Winner 2024: Zena Blackwell

Beep Prize 2024
Friends of Glynn Vivian prize, selected by Tim Davies
Winner: Zena Blackwell, Average, Oil on canvas 45 x 35.5 cm
Zena Blackwell is an award-winning figurative painter based in Cardiff, Wales, UK, working primarily in oil paint and exhibiting regularly both nationally and internationally. She obtained her MFA at Central Saint Martins; BA at Wimbledon School of Art and most recently completed the Turps Correspondence Course. A year after resuming her painting practice following a lengthy hiatus, Zena won first prize at the Cardiff MADE Summer Open 2017, presenting a well received first solo show there the following year. She was also awarded 3rd prize at PS Mirabel’s open exhibition ‘PAINT’ (Manchester) in 2019. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the National Library of Wales and in many private collections globally.
Mae Zena Blackwell yn arlunydd sydd yn peintio’n ffigurol wedi’i lleoli yng Nghaerdydd, Cymru, y DU, yn gweithio’n bennaf mewn paent olew ac yn arddangos yn rheolaidd yn genedlaethol ac yn rhyngwladol, yn ogystal wedi ennill nifer o wobrau. Enillodd ei MFA yn Central Saint Martins; BA yn Ysgol Gelf Wimbledon ac yn fwyaf diweddar cwblhaodd y Cwrs Turps Correspondence Course. Flwyddyn ar ôl ailafael yn ei hymarfer peintio yn dilyn seibiant hir, enillodd Zena wobr gyntaf yn Sioe Agored Haf MADE Caerdydd 2017, a chyflwyno arddangosfa unigol gyntaf a gafodd dderbyniad da yno’r flwyddyn ganlynol. Dyfarnwyd y 3edd wobr iddi hefyd yn arddangosfa agored PS Mirabel, ‘PAINT’ (Manceinion) yn 2019. Cedwir ei gwaith yng nghasgliad parhaol Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru ac mewn llawer o gasgliadau preifat yn fyd-eang.
Friends of Glynn Vivian prize winner Zena Blackwell with her painting Average

Swansea Open 2024: Friends Prize Gareth Lye

Artist Gareth Lye (middle) with selectors Gwenllian Beynon and Melvyn Williams
Photograph: Polly Thomas 2024

Gareth Lye, Look At My Hands! (Acrylic on board)

For more information on the artist please visit garethlye.com

Photographs: courtesy of the artist