Artist statement
ConceptsI call my monochrome paintings 'fragment drawings'. Pencil lines are applied to a white ground and obscured or brought out. The images arising from this process are often recurrent and obsessive. Heads, beasts, animals shift shape, travel the mysteries of birth and death. Banal or sublime forms evoke traumas of early relationships. They battle for a sense of being beyond pain and compulsion.
Influences
Spirituality/Religion, The human figure, Ancient cultures/Myths; own cultural identity (Welsh, European); own gender (Female)
Career path
Qualifications:
1979 Meisterschuler, State Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf
1974 BA Hons, History and Visual Arts, UCW, Aberystwyth, Wales
Teaching Experience:
1979/82 Tutor, Painting and Graphics, Auxiliumschüle, Düsseldorf
1979 Tutor, Graphics, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
Areas of work:
Adult education
Exhibiting
Private commissions
Public art
Project management
Workshops
Collections:
Kunstmuseum (Department of 20th century prints and drawings), Düsseldorf, Germany
Artothek and Ministry of Culture, Düsseldorf, Germany
Deutche Bank Art Collection, Königsallee, Düsseldorf
Hank Collection, Düsseldorf
Qualifications and training
- 2011 elected as a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, North Wales
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Other Times Different Places, Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, Duesseldorf
- 2008 Beasts, Angels, Silver Fields, Pebble Walk Gallery, BBC LLandaff Cardiff
- 2007 Fragment Sounds ...(with Katja Koelle), Sound Studio Viersen, Germany
- 2007 Paper Faces, Malkasten Gallery, Dusseldorf
- 2001 The Artists Life (with Pete Bailey), St. David's Hall, Cardiff
- 2000 Dreaming of Babylon (with Pete Bailey), Llanover Hall Arts Centre, Cardiff
- 1993 Heather Eastes Fragment Drawings, Kollmeier Gallery, Essen
- 1992 Heather Eastes, Municipal Gallery, Bad Waldsee, Germany
- 1988 Fragment Drawings,, Galerie udo Bugdahn, Dusseldorf
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Affordable Art Exhibition, St Davids Hall Cardiff, The Hayes, Cardiff
- 2012 Grosse Kunstausstellung Duesseldorf 2012, Museum Kunst Palast, Duesseldorf Germany
- 2012 DRAWINGMMX2, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff Metrapolitan University, Cardiff
- 2011 Polemically small on paper, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
- 2011 Arddangosfa Celf a Chrefft/Y Lle Celf, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Wrecsam, Wrexham, North Wales
- 2011 Three Artists, Three Journeys, Futures Gallery, Pierhead, National Assembly for , Cardiff Wales
- 2011 Welsh Artist of the Year 2011, St Davids Hall Cardiff, Cardiff (more info)
- 2011 Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (more info)
- 2011 Polemically Small, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills (more info)
- 2011 Artemisia, St Davids Hall Cardiff, Cardiff (more info)
- 2010 Y Lle Celf, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Y Lle Celf, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Ebbw Vale (more info)
- 2010 Welsh Artist of the Year 2010, St David's Hall, Cardiff (more info)
- 2009 Memory/Imagination, Millennium Centre Cardiff and Ty Crawshay Galleries, Pontypridd, Cardiff and University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd
- 2009 Welsh Artist of the Year 2009, St. David's Hall, cardiff (more info)
- 2008 Mapping the Welsh Group at 60, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
- 2008 Christmas show, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
- 2008 Arts and Crafts Exhibition, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Pontcanna Fields Cardiff
- 2008 Welsh Artist of the Year 2008, St. David's Hall, Cardiff
- 2008 Re:drawing, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys
- 2008 The Welsh Group, Brecknock Museum, Brecon (more info)
- 2008 The Welsh Group, Brecknock Museum, Brecon, Powys
- 2004 META, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff
- 2003 Gross Innovations, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago
- 2003 META, Vilnius, Lithuania
- 2003 META, Gregynog Gallery National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
- 2001 Looking Out, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport S. Wales
- 2000 Revelations, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
- 1999 Welsh Group Show Retrospective, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
- 1997 Wales Drawing Biennale, various venues across Wales
- 1997 Twenty-Twenty, Brecnock Museum, Brecon, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
- 1997 Celtic Connections, Concert Hall, Glasgow
- 1997 Welsh Group Show, Parliament Building, Strasbourg
- 1996 National Eisteddfod of Wales, regular participation since 1990, various venues in Wales
- 1996 The Welsh Group, Brecnock Museum, Brecon
- 1995 The Welsh Group, Cambrian Royal Academy, Conwy
- 1994 Changing Views, Old Library, Cardiff
- 1993 People And Beasts, Oriel Myrddyn, Carmarthen
- 1992 Winter Celebration, Newport Museum and Art Gallery
- 1992 Art For Sale, The Guardian, Whiteley's, London
- 1990 Dyfed Art Show, Carmarthen, Wales
- 1990 Damal 90 (Installation), Hofgarten, Düsseldorf
- 1979 Grosse Düsseldorfer Art Shows
Curated projects
- 2012 Aus passion The Hanck Collection, Museum kunst palast, Duesseldorf Germany
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2009 Shortlist for University of Glamorgan purchase Prize:, Cardiff Millennium centre and University of Glamorgan, Cardiff and University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd
- 2007 Welsh Artist of the Year Prize for Drawing, St David's Hall, Cardiff
- 1990 Wales Arts Council Travel Award, Project undertaken with Jenny Fell, Dusseldorf Germany
Other
- 2009 University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize Exhibition, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Cardiff (more info)
