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Biography
Kyffin Williams was born in 1918, Llangefni, on the Isle
of Anglesey, Wales, UK. He studied at the Slade School of
Fine Art, London from 1941 to 1944. He went on to become
the Senior Art Master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973,
and in 1968 gained a Winston Churchill Fellowship to record
the Welsh in Patagonia.
Williams's first one-man exhibition was held at P &
D Colnaghi, London in 1949. Subsequent solo exhibitions
were held at the Leicester Galleries, London, Glynn Vivian
Museum & Art Gallery, Swansea, Howard Roberts Gallery,
Cardiff and the Tegfryn Gallery, Menai Bridge. He exhibited
in Attic Gallery from 1963 and at the Thackeray Gallery,
London biennially from 1975. He exhibits regularly at the
Albany Gallery, Cardiff. A retrospective of his work was
held in 1987 at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, and
subsequently toured to the Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno and
the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. A portraits retrospective
was held at Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni in 1993.
Williams was President of the Royal Cambrian Academy from
1969 to 1976, and again from 1992. He was elected Royal
Academician in 1974. He was made an Honorary Fellow of University
College, Swansea (1989), University College, Bangor (1991)
and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1992). In
1991 he received the Medal of the Honourable Society of
Cymmrodorion. Kyffin Williams died on 1st September 2006.
Public Collections:
Arts Council of Great Britain
National Library of Wales
National Museum of Wales
National Portrait Gallery
Welsh Arts Council
Contemporary Art Society
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Glynn Vivian Museum & Art Gallery, Swansea
University of Wales
Tate Gallery, London
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