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Overview
Ice Breaker, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 117 x 107 cmBilly Bagilhole is an award-winning artist from North Wales. He has exhibited works internationally in the Saatchi gallery, the Chengdu biennale, Art Taipei, Bonham’s, Delphian gallery, the Welsh assembly, Rhodes contemporary, Blue shop gallery and many more accredited galleries. His work has also been acquired and added to the collections of reputable establishments such as Soho House, Creative Debuts, and the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Bagilhole grew up in a household full of his father’s paintings and prints, from a young age drawing Native Americans, animals, and religious figures, imitating the images his father created. They continue to be a fascination as his father passed away when he was 6 in the year of 2001. His experience is a time capsule of creativity for ongoing works. He often states that the reason he persisted in art was because of his father, and this is why his empathy for mark-making, for creating, is so strong.
Bagilhole predominantly works through the mediums of painting and filmmaking. Often covering canvases with salt and thick paint, he enjoys the technicality within painting, within colour and within the eye of the lens. Bagilhole frequently works through internal gestures and hints of nostalgic representations on abstracted life. Often colliding colour with imagery of sinisterness. He feels that painting becomes an expressionistic form of understanding and that by leaving the work as an open question, an unknown metaphor, meaning within painting or filmmaking, within art becomes infinite.
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Biography
Portrait of Billy Bagilhole
EDUCATION
2013-2014(Grade achieved) Distinction, Art and design, Coleg Menai, Bangor, Wales.
2014-2017
First class honours, BA of Fine art, UAL - Chelsea college of arts. London, England.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
- Soho House art collection, Shoreditch House library, London, UK
2024
- Rhodes Contemporary, London, UK, “Wide eyed embers”
- K & L museum, Seoul, South Korea, “Under the tree trunk”
2022
- Blue shop gallery, London, UK, “A pint and a ritual”
Gallery at home, Usk, Wales, “Fever dreams”
2021
- Gallery at home, Usk, Wales, “Hellraisers”
2020
- MoMa, Machynlleth, Wales, “Father and son with Robin Bagilhole”
2019
- Plas Glyn y Weddw, North Wales, “Just William”
- Hoxton 253, London, UK, “Juncture”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
- Delphian gallery x Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, “Post // future”
2023
- Art Taipei, Ting Ting Art Space, Taiwan
- Brushes with greatness, London, UK, “Two by two”
2022
- Felt, London, UK, “Collections 03 exhibition”
- The Fitrzovia gallery, London, UK, “Everything must go”
2021
- Chengdu Biennale, China, “Superfusion”
- Bonham’s, London, UK, “Secret postcard for Combat stress”
2020
- The Auction Collective, London, UK, “To my twenties”
2019
- Delphian open call, The printspace, London, UK
- Candid Arts Trust, London, UK, “Murmurations”
- The Auction collective, London, UK, “Lend your ears & open your eyes”
2018
- Welsh Assembly building, Cardiff, Wales, “Y lle celf”
- The square gallery, London, UK, “Animals as data”
2017
- 5th Base Gallery, London, UK, “GeBilde”
2016
- The Crypt Gallery, London, UK, “Mythical Mackerel”
AWARDS & PRIZES
2019
- Finalist Delphian open call
- Y Lle Celf finalist, Wales national Eisteddfod
2017
- Nova Biennale art prize Finalist, Cardiff, Wales
2014
- 1st place Peter Prendergast drawing prize
- 7th nationally in the WJEC Marking regime for Foundation diploma courses across the UK
2014
- Finalist Galeri Caernarfon open call
TELEVISION, MEDIA & COLLABORATIONS
2023
- BBC Production
- Commission for two large-scale paintings for the national Eisteddfod of Wales
2021
- Cymry ar gynfas, BBC Production
2020
- BBC news segment talking about arts in Wales
2019
- Adidas Original x Creative debuts - designing a shoe as a collaboration with Adidas to exhibit at their flagship store in London
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Exhibitions
Welsh, b. 1994
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