Gwenda Jones is a UK-based contemporary ceramic sculptor and Three-Dimensional Design graduate whose practice encompasses expressive interior and exterior lifestyle sculptures, portraiture, figurative sculpture, and equine and animal forms, for collectors, galleries and public spaces. A finalist in the Woman in Art Prize 2025 and an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (ARBSA), she exhibits across the UK, with work held in private collections internationally.
Working primarily in clay, Jones explores identity, belonging, agency, and the evolving narratives that shape us and our environment. Focusing on emotional presence, she uses posture, gesture, and expression to reveal the layered experiences that shape individuals and communities, and how we construct and reconstruct meaning through lived experience, emotion, and memory.
Inspired by a life of contrasts, raised in rural Oxfordshire, her lifelong connection with horses, the natural world, travel, and multicultural environments informs a practice grounded in observation and empathy. Her experience of working with SEND communities has further deepened her interest in individuality, communication, and inclusion, and how these shape our understanding of what it means to belong. To become whole.
Selected Exhibitions, Societies and Publications 2026 to date
The Horse in Art Society of Equestrian Artists 14th-26th September. At the Museum of the Horse, Tuxford, NG22 0LA
The Flux Review Interview 2026
Cupola Contemporary Art 35 Year Anniversary Show until 5th September. 174-178a Middlewood Road, Hillsborough, Sheffield, S6 1TD Opening Times: Mon – Sat 10-6pm
RBSA Summer Exhibition
Tarpey Open Exhibition. Castle Donington, DE742PQ
Midwales Arts Open 18th October- 19th December
Potfest in the Pens, Melton Mowbrey, 3oth October-1st November
Manchester Art Fair 19-22 November
Materclass Worksop, September 20th, Matlock
Zebra One Gallery, Hampstead, London, Women in Art Celebrating International Women’s Day
Yarley Arts Open 26 Yardley Hastings, Northampton.
Ronapainting Gallery, Oxford, International Women’s Day
Leamington OPEN26. Leamington Spa Art Gallery/Museum
Sheffield Ceramics Festival26 Kelham Island Museum
Association of Animal Artists Weston Park, Staffordshire
Exhibiting throughout the year at Independent Galleries Shipston Gallery in the Cotswolds, Cupola in Sheffield, Tarpey Gallery Castle Donnington, Rose Pottery Gallery, Lichfield
Selected Exhibitions, Awards (2025 to date)
Finalist, Women in Art Prize (WIAP) Sculpture Category
WIAP Exhibition, 67 York Street Gallery, Marylebone, London
Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London
RBSA Watercolour Prize. Highly Commended. Equine Sculpture, Innovative use of water-based media.
RBSA Drawing Prize Exhibition
Society of Equestrian Artists, The Horse in Art, The Garden Rooms, Tennants Auctioneers, Leyburn North Yorkshire
