Gwenda Jones Sculpture
texture meets form
Gwenda Jones is a contemporary British sculptor who works from an emotional connection. Her sculptures begin with lived experience: conversations, observation, touch, nurture and empathy. A need to understand how we exist within society, culture, nature and environment. She sculpts to explore feeling and to make sense of a beautiful yet increasingly fractured world. The process is cathartic. Physical. Not words.
Her practice is shaped by contrast. A childhood in rural Oxfordshire instilled in her a deep understanding of horses and nature. Formative travels in India, Africa and Nepal exposed her to differences in traditions, colours, celebrations, wildlife and humble ways of living alongside nature. These experiences continue to inform her sensitivity to belonging and to difference.
Working predominantly in clay from her Birmingham-based studio, where she graduated with a BA (Hons) in Three-Dimensional Design, and studios in Yorkshire, Gwenda received student awards during her studies and later a scholarship to Barcelona.
A finalist in the Women in Art Prize 2025 and exhibiting in London and nationally with work held in international collections, Gwenda’s sculpture, whether portrait, equine or animal, embodies joy, challenge and her emotional truth.
Through portrait sculpture, she explores visibility and marginalisation; what it means to be seen, heard and valued within multicultural societies and nature. Her work considers agency: the rewriting of our own narratives regardless of gender, race, age or perceived capacity.
Her equine sculptures draw on a lifelong relationship with horses. The quiet light of early mornings, the tension of muscle beneath skin, freedom in the field, posture in the stable. In these works, as in her portraits, there is an unspoken conversation without judgment.
Selected Exhibitions 2026 to date
Selected Exhibitions & Awards (2025)
