DEGREE

1986 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Rockford College, Rockford, IL, USA

AWARDS

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

ONE PERSON SHOWS

2014 ‘Pointless Exclamations’ Gas Gallery, Aberystwyth

2012 Screaming Chicken Gallery, Oswestry

2008 Printmaker of the Month, Wrexham Art Gallery, Wrexham

COMBINED SHOWS

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

SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS AND EVENTS

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

2013‘Drawing on the Domestic’ Amy Sterly and Frances Carlile, The Sidney Nolan Trust,

Presteigne

2013 ‘RURAL’ sound, installation and performance, Market Gate, Oswestry

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

PUBLICATIONS

Critical Mass: Printmaking Beyond the Edge, Richard Noyce, A & C Black 201

AMY STERLY BIO:

Amy Sterly is originally from Chicago and received a B.F.A. in drawing and sculpture from Rockford College, Illinois in 1986. She moved to the U.K. in 1989 and has since exhibited throughout the UK, Europe and the USA. She received a Wales Arts International Travel award in 2004 to attend the Lessedra 3rd International Print Exhibition in Sofia, Bulgaria and in 2012 to travel to Finland to research and exhibit in Hyvinkaa. She received an Arts Council Wales Grant in 2006 to research Printmakers in Wales and in 2013 to create a booklet for the Finland/Wales exchange exhibition.

In 2014 she received and Arts Council Research grant for the ‘Sound Books’ project. She combined sound and book works together to create an installation at the Test Bed space at Oriel Davies.

“I want to link sound with objects to trigger emotion and memory and change the object into something else that you may not expect.”

She is a featured artist in "Critical Mass-Printmaking Beyond the Edge" by Richard Noyce. (A&C Black, 2010)

She has also written articles for Printmaking Today, Welsh Art Now and Grapheion magazines.

Since 2001 she has been a wax technician at Castle Fine Arts foundry where she began making small scale bronze bowls and buildings, which eventually worked their way in to prints and installations which have been exhibited around the world.