Huw Powell Roberts

Ceramic Artist / Sculptor

Strengths / Skills

• 2003 Benchart partnership with Ruth Gibson started to deliver an Arts Regeneration Project in  Cross Houses, Shrewsbury. This involved project development and funding applications to Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council and Arts Council England.  
• 2004 SABC Arts Regeneration Grant awarded to Benchart for Cross Houses Project.
• 2005 ACE Grant awarded for enlarged Cross Houses Project.
• 2006 Benchart Arts Regeneration Project in Cross Houses underway with opening of the new Cross Houses Community Centre. Joint project manager with Ruth Gibson. First bus/youth shelter built and commissioned bench installed, along with numerous community workshops and an open weekend.
• Since 2000 I have served on the local Berrington Parish Council, latterly as deputy chairman.
•  I have been involved with Community Education for 20 years, teaching pottery at evening classes, at local schools as a visiting artist, and for Artlink at Whitchurch Hospital and with adults with learning difficulties.

Other Benchart Projects

Exhibitions

Alexandra Palace, ICHF, Farnham and Heart of England Craft Fairs;

Stoke on Trent Garden Festival 1986;

Barbican exhibition with South Wales Potters;

Ikebana International, World and National Association of Flower Arranging Societies     

Annual Exhibitions;

2D/3D Design Fair at Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Lichfield Cathedral Festival Exhibition;

Bluecoat Design Centre, Liverpool; Artizana, Prestbury, Cheshire; Cecelia Colman Gallery, London;

3D Gallery, Bristol; The Gallery Upstairs, Torquil, Henley in Arden; RBSA, Birmingham;

Chelsea Flower Show 2000, and RHS shows at Hampton Court Palace and Tatton Park;

Potfest, in Perth, Penrith and Frome;

Potters, Bristol, run by South Wales and West Country Collective, of which I was a member until recently.

Qualifications