Carwyn Evans

Cardiff based artist Carwyn Evans’ work explores Wales’ language, cultural, rural and agricultural landscape and his own family’s history.  In 2000 he was awarded the Young Artist Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod, and was the recipient of the Ivor Davies Award at the Eisteddfod in 2003 and 2007 for work which was seen to convey ‘the spirit of activism in the struggle for language, culture and politics in Wales’. He was awarded a Fine Art Award at the 2009 Eisteddfod, winning the coveted Gold Medal for Fine Art in 2011. Carwyn took part in Locws 3 in 2007 and has exhibited in group shows across Wales as well as in Denmark, Austria and Mexico.