Geraint Ross Evans

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.