Biography

Carol Hiles is based in Cardiff, South Wales, where she has a studio with Butetown Artists. She studied Fine Art at Cardiff Art School and has created and exhibited work focused on painting and drawing since graduating in the early 1980s. Carol has substantial experience as an artist working within the field of arts and health and was engaged as Artist in Residence at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport for eleven years, a post which was followed by a residency at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant. She has also pursued a successful career in Higher Education, teaching BA and MA Art Practice at the University of South Wales (formerly the University of Glamorgan), where she occupied a number of senior academic roles including Post Graduate Coordinator for the Faculty of Creative Industries, Academic Subject Manager of Photography and Art and Course Leader of MA Arts Practice (Arts, Health and Wellbeing). She has now left Higher Education to concentrate on her studio practice.

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  • 2025  Butetown Artists, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff

    2025  56 Group Wales, West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff

    2024 Summer Open, MADE Gallery, Cardiff

    2024   An Artist Shoots Themselves in the Foot, Turner House Gallery, Penarth

    2023 Winter Open, MADE Gallery, Cardiff

    2023 The Reading Group, Oriel Canfas, Cardiff

    2023 At Cross Purposes, 56 Group Wales Touring Exhibition, Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Oriel Môn, Anglesey; QSS Belfast, Elysium, Swansea

    2022 Wolf, BBC Drama Production

    2022 Without Borders, International Touring Exhibition, Wales, Kyoto, Nagoya, Venice

    2022 Winter Open, MADE Gallery, Cardiff

    2022 Butetown Artists Members and Associates, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff

    2020 Butetown Artists, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff

    2019 Butetown Artists, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff

    2018 Avante Donna, West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff

    2016 Towards Abstraction – Art in South Wales Since 1960, Oriel Y Bont, University of South Wales

    2016 Fuse 4, The Red House, Merthyr Tydfil

    2016 Cyfartha Castle, Merthyr Tydfil

    2015 Fuse 3, Oriel y Bont, University of South Wales

    2015 56 Group Wales, Caerphilly Castle

    2014 Fuse 1, Floc Gallery, University of Newport

    2013 Summer Show NTE, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff

    2013 56 Group Wales, Oriel Y Bont, University of South Wales & Newport Museum and Art Gallery

    2012 56 Group Wales, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff & MOMA Wales

    2011 56 Group Wales Bay Art, Cardiff, Oriel Canvas, Cardiff & Art At Arts Rhosygilwen, West Wales

    2008 56 Group Wales, Queen’s Hall Gallery, Narbeth & Tenby Museum and Art Gallery

    2007 Gifted, Contemporary Art Society For Wales (CASW), Oriel Y-Bont Gallery, University of Glamorgan

    2006 Welsh Artist of the Year, St David’s Hall Cardiff

    2006 Cultural Capital, Bay Art Gallery

    2006 56 Group Wales, Touring Exhibition,  National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, The Washington Gallery, Penarth, The Koywood Gallery, Cardiff

    2005 Two Person Show, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff.

    2005 CASW Exhibition, National Library Museum, Aberystwyth

    2005 Ten Women Artists, The Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff

    2005 56 Group Wales, Touring Exhibition, Koywood Gallery, Cardiff,  White Space Gallery, Somerset College of Art & Design, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden

    2003 Recent CASW Purchases, Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery,

    2002 Cardiff Bay Art Trust Gallery

    2000 56 Group Wales, Touring Exhibition, Howard Gardens Gallery Cardiff, Oriel Clwyd, Theatre Cymru Mold

    1999 56 Group Wales, Touring Exhibition,  Henry Thomas Gallery Carmarthen, Yale College Memorial Gallery Wrexham

    1999 Guest Artist, Exeter and Devon Healthcare Trust

    1998 Welsh Drawing Biennale, Touring Exhibition, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wrexham Arts Centre, Howard Gardens and Glyn Vivian Art Galleries

    1997 56 Group Wales, 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Worcester City Art Gallery, St David’s Hall Cardiff

    1997 The Art of the Possible, 56 Group, Touring Exhibition, Viriamu Jones Gallery, Cardiff, Pembroke Dock Library, Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea

    1996 56 in 96, The National Museum of Wales, Turner House Penarth

    1995 Arts Council of Wales, Artists in Residence Exhibition, Newport Museum and Art Gallery; Y Bont Gallery, University of Glamorgan;

    1995 56 Group Wales, Libramont Art Fair, Belgium

    1995 Works on Paper, Newport Museum and Art Gallery & Rhondda Heritage Park

    1993 56 Group Wales, The Royal West of England Academy

    1992 Carol Hiles, The Artists Institute, Luhansk, Ukraine

    1992  The Royal Over-Seas League, Annual Open; Over-Seas House, London

    1991 Artists in Residence, Newport Museum and Art Gallerycription text goes here

  • 2017 – 2024 Course Leader MA Arts Practice (Arts, Health and Wellbeing), University of South Wales

    2017 – 2021 Academic Subject Manager of Photography and Art, Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales

    2014-2017 Postgraduate Coordinator, Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales

    2011 – 2013 Subject Leader Art, University of Glamorgan

    2003-2017 Senior Lecturer BA Arts Practice & MA Arts Practice, University of Glamorgan (University of South Wales from 2013)

    1993-2003 P/T Lecturer, University of Glamorgan. BA Art Practice

    1995-2002 P/T Lecturer, Coleg Morgannwg

    2001/2002 P/T Lecturer, University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) Foundation Studies

    1998 P/T Lecturer, UWIC BA Art & Aesthetics

    1996-1997 P/T Lecturer, UWIC HND Textiles (drawing)

    1990-1994 P/T Tutor, LLanover Hall Arts Centre

    External Examiner Posts

    2023 - Present External Examiner for MA Arts, Health and Wellbeing at Plymouth Marjon University

    2024 - 2025 External Examiner for MA Art Health and Wellbeing at Anglia Ruskin University

    2021 –2025 External Examiner for BA Fine Art, BA Art and Design and FDA Art and Design at Bangor University

    2017 – 2022 External Examiner for MA Arts Health at the University of Central Lancashire

  • 1996-1999 PGCE FE University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC)

    1987-1989 MA Fine Art University of Wales Institute Cardiff

    1978-1981 BA. Hons Fine Art South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education

    1977-1978 Foundation Studies in Art and Design. South Glamorgan Institute of Higher EducationDescription text goes here

  • 2002-2003 Artist in Residence, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Cwm Taff Morgannwg University Health Board

    1991- 2002 Artist in Residence, Royal Gwent Hospital, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

    1995 Artist in Residence with ‘Theatre Centre’, Bishops Grossteste College, BA Theatre Studies

    1992 Artist in Residence, Luhansk, Ukraine. Supported by Cardiff County Council, The British Council and The Arts Council of Wales

  • Cardiff County Council

    University of South Wales (Contemporary Art Society For Wales Purchase)

    Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

    University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

    ARUP Engineering