ELERI MILLS
1955 Born Mid Wales
1974 - 77 B.A.Hons. Art and Design at Manchester Polytechnic
1978 - 88 Working from studio in Manchester
1988 - Working from studio in Mid Wales
2000 - Represented by Thackeray Gallery, London
2010 - 12 Creative Wales Ambassador Award, Arts Council of Wales
2012 Artist in residence at Columbia University and exhibition at Macy Gallery, New York
2016 Artist in residence at Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi, India
Eleri Mills lives and works in rural Mid Wales, where she was born and brought up. She has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad including the Museums of Modern Art Kyoto and Tokyo, Museu Textil d’Indumentaria, Barcelona and the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid.
In 2010 she won the Arts Council of Wales’ Creative Wales Ambassador award followed by a three month residency in New York at Columbia University and a showing at SOFA NYC (the international art fair for Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art) at Park Avenue Armory.
Eleri has exhibited with Ruthin Craft Centre at Collect, the international art fair organised by the Crafts Council, firstly from 2004 to 2008 at the Victoria and Albert Museum and most recently in 2017 and 2018 at London’s Saatchi Gallery.
Her work is featured in national collections which include the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.