Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins is a Welsh artist known for narrative paintings, prints and artist’s books, often drawing on myth and the stage. Born in Newport, South Wales, he trained in theatre at the Italia Conti School and worked as a choreographer, director and stage designer before turning to visual art in the 1990s. His screenprints illustrate a 2018 edition of Simon Armitage’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the National Library of Wales held a retrospective for his sixtieth birthday in 2011. He is a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and has won the Gulbenkian Welsh Art Prize.