'Dagboa S'
'Stream' 2004
Artists
Arthur Giardelli
Brendan Burns
Carol Hiles
Christine Kinsey
Chris Shurrock
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Dennis Gardner
Dilys Jackson
Emrys Williams
Glyn Jones
Harvey Hood
John Selway
Martyn Jones
Peter Seabourne
Peter Spriggs
Robert Harding
Robert Alwyn Hughes
Sue Hunt
Sue Williams
Tom Piper
Antonia Spowers
Richard Renshaw
Ken Elias
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dilysjackson@yahoo.co.uk
"My work derives from the kinaesthetic relationship that I experience between natural forms and those of the human body. My perception of shape , mass and process in the world around me is arrived at not only through my eyes, but also through the sensation of myself in space. I mainly use metal and stone to realise these relationships. These materials have an intrinsic weight and presence through which I explore both their mass and internal space, but also the shapes that derive from the perceived processes of growth or movement which appear to have formed them. In my drawings I tear paper and pigments as sculptural elements. The works have formal elements of both sigularity and division by which I seek to express the dynamic balance between the pressure of the weight of the whole and the release of pressure between parts."
Dilys Jackson was born in Shri Lanka and some of her childhood was spent in South Africa but her parents were from Abergavenny and it was to Wales that she returned after attending the Slade School of Fine Art, London. During her teaching years in Special Schools in South Wales she also gained a BA in Psychology from the Open University and an MA in Fine Art from UWIC.
Dilys Jackson lives in Cardiff and works at Butetown Artists Studios. She has produced numerous public works including the Ogmore Valley Route benches, the Betws Village centre paving and railings, the Sight Garden in Stackpole and the Copper Mill Millennium Sculpture in the Greenfield Valley, Flint. She has travelled and worked in Europe, Australia, Iceland, the Americas and the Middle East. She was awarded a Leighton Fellowship Residency at BanFF Centre for Arts, Canada in 1995. She was also the Artist in Residence with Groundwork Trust in Bridgend for a number of years. Other awards include an Arts Council of Wales Masterclass at MB Fine Art Foundry , Clynderwen.
Dilys Jackson is an associate of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, a member of Sculpture Cymru, and the Welsh Group.She has exhibited her work in France, Spain, Russia and America.