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
Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.
The Horse in Art 2026. Society of Equestrian Artists 14th-26th September. At the Museum of the Horse, Tuxford, Notts. NG22 0LA
The Flux Review Interview 2026
Midwales Arts Open 5th September – 3rd October
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 until 1st August
Tarpey Open Exhibition 26. Exhibition until 9th August. Tarpey Gallery 77 High Street, Castle Donington, DE742PQ
Potfest in the Pens, Melton Mowbrey, 3oth October-1st November
Manchester Art Fair 19-22 November with The Sculpture Gallery
Materclass Worksop, September 20th, Matlock
Zebra One Gallery, 3rd-11th March, Hampstead, London, Women in Art Celebrating International Women’s Day
RBSA Candidacy Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, until 2nd May
Yarley Arts Open 26 The Square, Yardley Hastings, Northampton.
Ronapainting Gallery, Oxford, celebrating International Women’s Day
Leamington OPEN26. Equine sculpture celebrating The Year of The Fire Horse
Sheffield Ceramics Festival 26
Demonstrator and exhibitor at the Association of Animal Artists Spring Exhibition, Rose Patterson Gallery, Weston Park, Staffordshire
Exhibiting throughout the year at Independent Galleries in Staffordshire, Yorkshire and the Cotswolds.
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
Highly Commended, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) Watercolour Prize, Equine Sculpture, Innovative use of water-based media.
RBSA Drawing Prize
Society of Equestrian Artists, The Horse in Art, The Garden Rooms, Tennants Auctioneers, Leyburn North Yorkshire
