Geraint Ross Evans
- Alumni, 2015
- Faculty
- Bespoke Courses Faculty
- Young Artists Faculty
Biography
Geraint Ross Evans was born in Caerphilly and grew up in Cardiff. He studied Fine Art at Swansea College of Art and was involved with the artist led gallery and studios Tactile Bosch. He secured a place to study on The Drawing Year in 2014 and was awarded the Director’s Prize on completion. In 2016 he was awarded The Richard Ford Award to study the paintings at the Prado Museum in Madrid.
In 2018 Geraint returned to Wales and has since created permanent public artworks for the National Trust, the Grange University Hospital and University Hospital Llandough. In 2024 he created the Special Contemporary Visual Art Commission for the National Eisteddfod in Rhondda Cynon Taff. He was also a recipient of the Artists Respond to the Now award from the Arts Council Wales / National Museum of Wales partnership and was BBC 6Music Festival artist in residence in Cardiff.
On drawing
I draw as an impulse to connect with and drink in the experience of being alive and in time. Drawing reminds me of this, in both the doing and in the reviewing, revealing the truth of what is seen and felt in that moment. Regular observational drawing provides the specific material and spacial confidence in which to reflect on, reimagine and invent in the studio. I work much larger here, encompassing multiple views, experiences and scales together, often stretching the timeframe. I am fascinated by this playground of imaginative potential that is unbound by the physical and optical anchors of observational drawing. Here there is room for complexity; experiments in how the world takes shape within.
My teaching reflects this experiential led approach, offering practical support to develop personal responses through drawing. In recent years, I have been working in the public realm, creating drawings that reflect the diverse layers of place and community in South Wales and beyond.
