2022 – Our Picturesque Landscape residency/commission to develop a new body of large scale drawings in response to the Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
– Reframing the past>>>Emerging Futures, Elysium Gallery Wales in partnership with IF / IICSI Canada
2020 – CONNECTIVES ‘mini residency’ at Oriel Davies: 3 days between exhibition schedules for intensive research: Analogue and digital exchanges alongside collaborative partner.
2017/18 – Llangattock Green Valleys CIC, Brecon Beacons, Wales. Joint artist in residence with Leona Jones
2016 – Floating Island Gallery 8 week residency: Brunel House, Cardiff
2013 – ArcadeCardiff 3 week residency, Cardiff
2024 Maes Chwarae / Playing Ground, with SCORE at Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff
– *Myriorama, Gallery 2, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
2023 A Private Land Brecon, Powys
– Our Picturesque Landscape Llangollen, Denbighshire
– Y Lle Celf National Eisteddfod of Wales
– Lost in Transit StudioMADE, Denbigh, Denbighshire
– SCORE tactileBOSCH Lounge and SHIFT, Capitol Centre, Cardiff
– Concentric, West Wharfe Gallery, Cardiff
– Future of the Universe at The Cloud Factory, Newfoundland, Canada
– Future of the Universe at Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Ontatio, Canada
2022 – Memory into Landscape Elysium Gallery, Swansea
– DEMOLUTION K.L.8 Exhibitions, Brussels
– Thoughts on Paper Oriel y Bont, University South Wales, Pontypridd, Wales
– Hibernators, Art Shop and Gallery, Abergavenny, Mons. Wales.
– Sponge Volcano, Swansea, Wales.
2021 – Materials from the Garden tactileBOSCH Cardiff, Wales,
– SCALE hosted by Toronto Six Hundred (T6), Canada
– Big Small House Summer Open, Small House Gallery, London
– Without Borders touring exhibition. Elysium Gallery Swansea, Kyoto,
– Summer Open: Cardiff M.A.D.E. Cardiff,
– Connectives shortlisted for Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize
2020 – BEEP 2020, Elysium Gallery Swansea Wales
– Kohtuus–Yhteys–Tasa-arvo, Ars-Häme GalleriaKONE, Hämmeenlinna, Finland
– Concentric at tactileBOSCH, tactileBOSCH lounge, Cardiff, Wales
– From the Dark: with Tessa Waite and Lyndon Davies, The Muse, Brecon, Wales
2019 – UnderTheCounterCulture: tactileBOSCH, Cardiff Wales
– Viridis: Cardiff M.A.D.E. Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
– Paint dada, Oriel Canfas, Cardiff, Wales
2018 – *CANALWORKS including performance with Ghost Jam and Canalchemy, Andrew Lamont Gallery, Brecon, Wales
– vis-à-vis Oriel Y Bont Gallery, University South Wales, Wales
– Ghost Jam at Black Mountains College: A Celebration weekend, Crickhowell, Powys
– re:Source: with Leona Jones, Crickhowell, Wales
– Binocular: with Caroline Wright, ArcadeCardiff, Cardiff, Wales
– Glorious Disgust / Gogoneddus Ych-a-Fi: B.Block Gallery, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales
– One Minute Artist Film Festival: Balaclava Carn, Caernarvon, Wales
– Working Landscape: The Art House, with PEAK. Wakefield, England
2017 – Beyond Orpheus Beyond Eurydice: Ghost Jam performance. Centre 151 London
– Canalchemy: Series of collaborative performances along the route of the deleted Glamorganshire canal, Wales
– The End is by Yur: Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2016 – Binocular: Disturbance with Caroline Wright, Test Bed, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales
– *GPS Signal Lost The […] space, Mission Gallery, Swansea, Wales UK
– Nonarchy Made in Roath, Cardiff, Wales
– Composite Closing event of Floating Island Gallery residency: Brunel House, Cardiff, Wales
– Painting Parallels, Elysium Gallery Swansea
– Beep 2016. Wales’ International Painting Prize, Swansea & Wrexham
– Together Apart, PEAK Eisteddfod Fringe event with Caroline Wright, Abergavenny
– Nonarchy Undegun, Wrexham, Wales
2015 – Tales we Tell Undegun, Wrexham, Wales
2014 – *Boxing the Chimera Swansea Museum Collections Centre, Wales
– *Paybox Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Gwent
– Beep 2014: Wales International Painting Prize: Portrait of the Artist as…
– From Here and There: drawings from Swansea to Colorado. Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado, USA and Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2013 – *Pantechnichon ArcadeCardiff, Cardiff
– Graef St David’s Hall, Cardiff
– Portfolio Wales launch and exhibition, Swansea,
– Ludlow Open Ludlow
– Welsh Artist of the Year show, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
– Female Frame iv, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold, Flintshire
2012 – Beep 2012: Through Tomorrow’s Eyes, Wales International Painting Prize, Swansea.
– Dinefwr Literary Festival, Literature Wales, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire
2011 – Imagined Machines, Testbed, Oriel Davies, Powys
– Frederick J Fredericks, Craig y Cilau National Nature Reserve, Powys
– Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod, Wrecsam
– Sublinear, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
– * Shield Aberystwyth Ysgol gelf/School of Art Gallery
– Citizen, tactileBosch, Cardiff.
– Artemisia, St. David’s Hall, Hayes, Cardiff,
2010 – Arts Engine Alive – Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery, Brecon, Powys
– After the End, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
– *Shield The Workshop Gallery, The Old Library, Cardiff and Material Gallery, Ludlow
– Shield: Oriel Contemporary Art, Hay on Wye. Joint show with Stuart MacIndoe
2009 – Wood, Canvas, Steel, tactileBosch, Cardiff
– Wrecsam Print International 2009
– *Poesy Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
2008 – Works on Paper, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2007 – Alumni Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth
– Intaglio, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
– Artist’s Access to Art College exhibition at Hereford College of Art
2006 – Re-generation, County Hall, London
– Drawing is a Verb, Drawing is a Noun, Stone Gallery, Dublin
– *Bodywork The Art Shop Gallery, Abergavenny
2004 – *Pieces The Art Shop Gallery, Abergavenny
2017 – Translating Eurydice Conference University of East London, Stratford Campus.
2014 – 24 Sept, Artist talk and BFA student critiques, Fort Collins University, USA
– 25 Sept, BFA Student critiques, Denver University, USA
– Of Orpheus, Film, Poetry and Music, with Steve Boyland, Lyndon Davies, Scott Thurston, Rhys Trimble, Nancy Downing, Bangor, Wales
2013 – Inner art. Workshop in response to ‘Art in the Asylum’ Lakeside Lakeside Arts Centre
University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD
– Orpheus & Euridice Event. Glasfryn Seminars 23.3.13.
2012 & 13 University Wales Newport. Art Psychotherapy. Visiting lecturer.
2012 – In-and-Between Colloquium, Atrium, University of Glamorgan) 3.5.12 ‘Critical friend’ and panel presentation.
– Essex University Centre for Myth Studies. Joint presentation on the Orpheus Project with Lyndon Davies.
2011 – Interfaces: encounters beyond the page / screen / stage. 29 Jan 2011. University of Exeter, Arts and Humanities Research Council. Multi-media panel presentation with Lyndon Davies for Orpheus Project.
2010 – Myth, Literature and the Unconscious. 2 – 4 Sept 2010. University of Essex, Centre for Myth studies: Dept. literature, Film and theatre studies: Centre for Psychoanalytic studies. Multi-media panel presentation with Lyndon Davies for Orpheus Project.
2023 – Arts Council Wales Create: (A)Private Land
2021 -Arts Council Wales Create: materials from the Garden
– 1-1 Artes Mundi 9 studio session with artist Prabhakur Pachpute, supported by G39.
2020 – Arts Council Wales Stabilisation Fund: Connectives Project
2017 – Arts and Business Cymru, CultureStep Investment Programme to strengthen and develop creative partnership with Llangattock Green Valleys micro-hydro CIC
2016 – Arts Council Wales Project Grant: Binocular
– A-N Professional Development Bursary
2015 – Arts Alive Wales Creative Network Mini-fund
2013/14 – Arts Council Wales: Research and Development Grant – Boxing the Chimera
2013 – Artist Newsletter re:view bursary
2010 – Arts Council Wales: Research and Development Grant – The Orpheus Project
2009 – Funding award from ‘cyfle i greu chance to create’ Powys County Council’s Arts Development Service
2006/7 – Selected for the Artists Access to Art Colleges Scheme (hosted by Hereford College of Art and Design)
2022 Materials from the Garden in S.P.A.M. Spreads #2, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
2018 – vis-à-vis Contemporary Welsh artists respond to images of women from the University of South Wales Museum Collection. Dr Frances Woodley, curator and editor. USW 2018
2016 – It’s not all Fun Hallas & Cleaves. International Journal of Art Therapy, vol 22 pp73-83
– ‘M.E. time’: meaningful engagement for people with a learning disability in secondary care in RCN: Learning Disability Practice, Vol 19 issue 9
2015 – Cover image: Peregrine by Caroline Goodwin, Finishing Line Press
2013 – Artworks in Rarely Pretty Reasonable by David Greenslade, Dark Windows Press
2012 – Cover image: International Journal of Jungian Studies, vol 4, issue 2 Sept 12
– TRADUZIONETRADIZIONE 7 Editor Claudia Azzola
2010 – Illustrations for SHIELD by Lyndon Davies, Parthian Books
2008 – Cover for HYPHASIS by Lyndon Davies, Parthian Books
1998 It’s a Mystery, Lomas and Hallas, in Drawing on Difference, ed Mair Rees, Routledge.
2009 – 11 Intermediate level training in Systemic Practice. The Family Institute, University of South Wales
1984 PGCE Art and Diploma Art Therapy, Birmingham Polytechnic (MA equivalent)
1982 BA Hons – Visual Arts/Art History, Aberystwyth University
1978 Wakefield Polytechnic Foundation Course
Private collections: Work held in France, UK, USA,