DEGREE
1986 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Rockford College, Rockford, IL, USA
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AWARDS
2018 Wales Arts International Travel Grant to attend Ratamo residency in Finland
2015 Arts Council Wales Large Production Grant for Sound Book Project
2014 Arts Council Wales Research and Development Grant for ‘Sound Books’
2013 Arts Council Wales Small Grant for ‘Together from Afar’ booklet and exhibition
2012 Wales Arts International Travel Grant to travel to Finland to research and exhibit
2009 ‘chance to create’ Project Grant to set up mobile print workshops in Powys
2006 Arts Council Projects Grant - Researching Printmakers in Wales
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RESIDENCIES
2021 Printmaker in Residence at Radiate Arts, Clywedog, Powys
2018 Printmaking Residency at Ratamo Print Centre in Jyvaskyla, Finland
2017-18 The Kitchen, Oriel Davies, Newtown
2016 The Drawing Room, Oriel Davies, Newtown
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ONE PERSON SHOWS
2023 Woodcut Prints, Oriel Pen y Coed, Welshpool
2016 ‘The Sound of Reading’, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan
2014 ‘Pointless Exclamations’ Gas Gallery, Aberystwyth
2012 Screaming Chicken Gallery, Oswestry
2008 Printmaker of the Month, Wrexham Art Gallery, Wrexham
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JOINT EXHIBITIONS
2023 Amy Sterly and Alex Boyd Jones, Glansevern Cafe, Berriew, Powys
2016 Amy Sterly, Marja Bonado, Ant Dickinson and Maija Helasvuo at Toolbox Galerie, Berlin
2014 ‘Tri’ Amy Sterly, Annabell Shelton and Sally Annett, Galleri 3B, Wrexham
2013 ‘Together from Afar’ – Amy Sterly, Marja Bonada, Maija Helasvuo and Mika Karhu, Oriel Wrexham, Wrexham
2012 “Interior Landscapes – Amy Sterly and Marja Bonada”, Hyvinkaan Taidemuseo, Hyvinkaa, Finland
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PROJECTS
2023 “Clyw Donnau’r Galon”, Sound Piece with Georgia Ruth for the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
2022 Sensational Books, Sound piece for the Bodleian Library with Fusion Arts, Oxford
2021 ‘Sounds for an Empty House’ 24 hour live stream of sound in Plas Bodfa, Anglesey
2020 CoDI Experimental, performance project with Ty Cerdd, Cardiff
2018 – Literary Atlas Wales, a mapping project touring around Wales
2016 - 18 Formed and managed the experimental performance group Sound Book Project which has toured various venues and festivals across the UK and Europe including the Baltic Centre, Gateshead, Object Book, London and the Printhaus, Cardiff
2016 ‘Sound Books’ installation at Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay on Wye
2015 Sound Book Project, book performance at Undegun, Wrexham and at
‘Opening Up the Book’ @BankStreetArts, Sheffield
2015 ‘Sound Books’, Sterly and Snell, Test Bed Space, Oriel Davies, Newtown
2014 ‘Drawing on the Domestic’ Amy Sterly and Frances Carlile, The Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne
2013 ‘RURAL’ sound, installation and performance, Market Gate, Oswestry
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Ennyn Winter of Wellbeing, MOMA MAchynlleth
2020 Telephone, online artists game – https://phonebook.gallery
2020 ‘Restriction’ Correspondence Collective, Clay Hill Arts, online exhibition
2019 Print International Exhibition, Ty Pawb, Wrexham
2019 Spaghetti Intaglio, Richmond Art School, London
2019 Out of the Wood, site specific exhibition at Bleddfa Centre
2019 ‘Sound Books’ Sterly and Snell, Plas Bodfa, Anglesey
2018 By Invitation, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy
2018 One Minute Moving Image Festival, Bangor
2017 ‘Telling in Full’ Lancaster Words Festival, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
2017 Suomi Art Fair, Helsinki, Finland
2016 ‘Beyond the Page’, Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport
2016 Selected Woodcut Prints, Peculiar Gallery, Rhos-on-Sea
2015 ‘House’, Oriel Davies, Newtown
2015 ‘Tales We Tell’ UnDegUn, Wrexham
2014 Y Lle Print Gwreiddiol, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff
2013 PRINT, Marburae Gallery, Macclesfield
2013 Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Denbigh
2012 “Our Fragile Heritage – at the Crossroads”, Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws
2012 “Past, Present, Future” Oriel Wrecsam, Wrexham
2012 “Home”, Memorial Gallery, Wrexham
2012 BIMPE VII, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, Canada and touring
2011 4 Artists, Old Beehive Bakery, Llanfair Caereinion
2011 Littlest Print Exchange, Portland, Maine, USA
2011 Wrexham Print International, Oriel Wrecsam, Wrexham
2010 A4 International Contemporary Printmakers Competition, Penryn, Cornwall
2010 21st Maximo Ramos Printmaking Award Exhibition, Spain
2009 “Interventions 2009“, The Workhouse and surrounding town, Llanfyllin
2009 7th British International Mini Print Exhibition, London Print Centre and touring
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REVIEWS
“Voicing Memories” by Norie Neumark, SoundEffects | vol. 7 | no. 2 | 2017
“Redolent – the sound of books by Sterly and Snell” by Ellen Bell, a-n, April 2015
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
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PUBLICATIONS FEATURING AMY STERLY
Critical Mass: Printmaking Beyond the Edge, Richard Noyce, A & C Black 2010
WORK EXPERIENCE
2022-23 Earthwood, collaboration with Celf-Able various venues in mid-Wales
2022 Winter of Wellbeing collage workshop, Ysgol Bro Hyddgen, Machynlleth
2021 Creative Learning Fund practitioner, Ysgol Treowen, Newtown
2020 Creative virtual workshop video for Oriel Davies and Open Newtown
2019 Creative Practitioner at Kerry primary school for Creative Schools Programme
2018 Running Criw Celf collaborative workshops in high schools throughout Powys
2017 Creative Practitioner at Abermule Primary School for Creative Schools Programme
2017 Bookbinding Masterclass for Criw Celf, Powys
2016 Sound Book workshop at Hay on Wye and Object Book, London
2016 Woodcut Masterclass studio session for Criw Celf
2016 Collagraph printing workshops for children, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan
2015 ‘Creating a Zine’ masterclasses for Criw Celf programme, Oriel Davies
2015 Artists’ assistant for Llanfair Caereinion Primary School Eisteddfod project
2014 Printmaking Masterclasses at Oriel Davies for Art Factor programme
2014 – 2009 Modelling with Wax for Casting at Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2013 Wall mural made with students at Llanfair Caereinion Primary School
2013 Printmaking Masterclass with Art Factor program, Oriel Davies, Newtown
2013 Giant roller Printing with Radbrook Primary School, Shrewsbury
2012 Relief Print Workshops with schoolchildren at Hyvinkaa Gallery, Finland
2011 Teacher’s Art Camp, Drypoint printmaking, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
2011 ‘Me and Mine’ Art Camp, Printing with Young Carer’s, Arts Connection project,
Llandrinio, Powys
2011 Giant Roller Printing, St. Georges Day Festival, Telford Centre, Telford
2011-2010 Printmaking Workshops with Ponthafren Association, Newtown and its
Outreach centres; organizing related exhibitions and creating printed booklets.
2010 Giant Roller Printing with Llanfyllin High School Sixth Form students
2010 Printmaking workshops at Llanfair Caereinion High School
2010 Masterclass Drypoint Printmaking, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
2010 Assistant Artist with Arts in Health programme at Shelton Hospital,Shrewsbury
2009 Drypoint print workshops at the Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne
2001 - 21 part-time wax technician at Castle Fine Arts Foundry