27 September 2025 – 11 January 2026

Bonnie Grace is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, ceramics, and printmaking. Her practice revolves around antiques and ceramics; investigating, dissecting, and translating these objects. Growing up surrounded by her mother’s antique business, Bonnie is inspired by the intricate patterns, diverse shapes, and the histories embedded in each object.

Her ceramics offer a personal interpretation of traditional ceramics and commemorative ware, drawing particular inspiration from Welsh ceramics and the dressers on which they were displayed.

Bonnie begins with continuous line drawing, using it as a way to detach from the object and explore it more freely. Struggling to think in three dimensions, she treats clay as though it were paper. From her line drawings, she creates templates and uses slabs of clay to form both 2D and 3D shapes, folding and pinching the surfaces to shape unique objects.

She embellishes her work with layers of coloured underglaze, ceramic pencil, decals, and lustres, drawing from historic patterns to give each piece its own distinct personality. Bonnie’s ceramics also serve as a means of expressing her thoughts and feelings, sometimes through a coded language inspired by binary code and the repetitive grids found in textiles.

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27 Medi 2025 – 11 Ionawr 2026

Artist amlddisgyblaeth sy’n gweithio ym meysydd lluniadu, gwaith cerameg a chreu printiau yw Bonnie Grace. Mae ei hymarfer yn troi o amgylch hen bethau a gwaith cerameg, gan ymchwilio, dadelfennu ac ail-ddehongli’r gwrthrychau hyn drwy lens cyfoes. Wrth dyfu i fyny wedi’i hamgylchynu gan fusnes hen bethau ei mam datblygodd ddiddordeb yn y patrymau cywrain, y ffurfiau amrywiol a’r hanesion a ymgorfforir mewn gwrthrychau bob dydd.

Mae ei gwaith cerameg yn cynnig dehongliad personol o lestri coffaol gan dynnu ysbrydoliaeth arbennig o waith cerameg Cymreig a’r dreserau lle cawsant eu harddangos.

Mae Bonnie’n cychwyn gyda lluniadau llinell di-dor, gan drin clai bron fel pe bai’n bapur, gan blygu a phinsio slabiau yn ffurfiau nodedig dau a thri-dimensiwn.

Mae’n addurno’r rhain gyda haenau o danwydredd, pensil cerameg, decalau a gloyweddau, gan dynnu ar batrymau hanesyddol wrth osod cyfeirnodau codedig at gof, emosiwn a meddwl. Mae pob darn yn cynnal ei bersonoliaeth, yn cydbwyso traddodiad gydag arloesedd. Mae gwaith cerameg Bonnie hefyd yn cynnig modd i fynegi ei meddyliau a’i theimladau, weithiau drwy iaith mewn côd a ysbrydolwyd gan gôd deuaidd a’r gridiau ailadroddus sydd i’w canfod mewn tecstilau.

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