About

Ceris Dyfi Jones is a textile artist based in North Wales whose work has been exhibited across multiple venues including Caernarfon Castle, Galeri Caernarfon, Elysium Gallery Swansea, and Bath Spa University. Through her work, she explores contrasting feelings such as Comfort vs Discomfort and Connection vs Solitude. These themes have fascinated her from a young age but became especially prominent in her artwork following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Central to Ceris' practice is her ongoing sculptural series, Heartstrings, which explores such themes through the tactile process of crochet. Shaped by both personal and communal histories and informed in part by her lived experience of neurodivergence, the series utilises comforting, soft yarn to portray the oftentimes uncomfortable emotions that come with being human.

Prior to her career in textiles, Ceris received a First Class degree in History with Film Studies (with Hons) from Bangor University in 2020, from which she also received The Bangor University 'Best History Dissertation Award' for her paper titled 'The Construction of ‘Freaks’: Investigating the Presentation of ‘Disabled’ and ‘Abnormal’ Bodies in 1930s Horror Films'. This passion for both classic and modern films, especially those with darker undertones and aesthetics, very much inspire her artistic practice today as she continues to explore her own experiences and identity through an increasingly gothic lens.