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Caro Williams

London
London-based artist Caro Williams explores symbols, sound, and place through her installations and mixed media works. Inspired by literature, poetry, and nature, she blurs reality with imagination, merging the ethereal with the tangible.

Caro Williams, a London-based interdisciplinary artist, explores symbols, sound, language, and place through her installations and mixed media works. Drawing inspiration from literature, poetry, and the natural world, her art invites viewers into a dreamlike space where meaning hovers ambiguously. Through diverse methodologies, Caro transforms everyday experiences into new materials, creating a poetic strangeness where sounds morph into materials and text transcends paper. Her installations merge the ethereal with the tangible, sparking interpretations that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination.

Caro exhibits nationally and internationally, receiving recognition for her work, including awards and funding such as the Creative New Zealand WW1 Centenary Co-commissioning Fund (2016). She co-curated exhibitions like "Contemporary Art + Ritual" at the Crypt Gallery, London (2019), and her installations have been featured in prestigious venues such as Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral (2022), and the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, London (2022). Notably, Caro was awarded the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery – Museum at Large Public Art Commission, Exeter (2021), for her large-scale mixed media light and sound installation, "Lark Song," and her work "In the White Dawn" was shortlisted for the 2023 Aesthetica Art Prize.

Caro is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS) 

 

 

 

ART QUALIFICATIONS

2008 MA Sculpture (Distinction), AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

2005 BVA Sculpture, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

1996 Fine Art Foundation, Camberwell College of Arts, London, England

EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS

2023 Aesthetica Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, York Art Gallery, York

2023 On the Edge, Royal Society of Sculptors London Group Exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London

2022 Terra Exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London

2022 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Wells

2022 Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, Cromwell Place, London

2022 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh

2021 Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery – Museum at Large Public Art Commission, Exeter

2021 Unboxing – A Travelling exhibition, Arts Territory Exchange, Moving across continents via a network of curators, artists, and archivists – Current

2021 Big Small Summer Exhibition, Small House Gallery, London

2021 A Stitch in Time, Arts Territory Exchange, Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China

2020 Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London

2020 Sound Library, Arts Territory Exchange and Muck (Must Use Critical Knowledge)

2020 Automated, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath Spa

2020 In the Silent Air selected for inclusion in Fabrizio Paterlini – Piano Microstories – The Eighth Note Publication

2019 /2020, 4th Today’s Documents: A Stitch in Time, Arts Territory Exchange, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2019 Put this in Your Window and Think of Me – Arts Territory Exchange, Dept of Land Economy Cambridge University and Cambridge Artworks Gallery

2019 Contemporary Art + Ritual, Crypt Gallery, London (co-curator + exhibiting artist)

2018 CICATRIX IMPRIME, Atelier Circulaire Gallery, Montreal, Canada

2018 CICATRIX, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Swindon

2018 Cicatrix: Call and Response, Town Hall Arts, Market Street, Trowbridge, UK

2017 Shifting Ground off-site, London as a solo component of Shifting Ground, Silo 6, Auckland

2017 Call and Response, Nathan Homestead, Auckland, NZ

2017 Strange Joy Installation, White Night Auckland, Auckland Arts Festival, NZ

2017 Call and Response, The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant, UK

2016 DUST Collective, LOOK@K'ROAD, Auckland Artweek, Auckland

2016 Imago Mundi, Trieste, Italy

2016 Call and Response, Salisbury International Arts Festival, Salisbury, UK

2015 Celeste 7th International Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist Exhibition, ex-BAZZI, Milan, Italy

2015 Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Snells Beach, Warkworth

2015 23rd Wallace Art Awards, Pataka Museum, Wellington and Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville

2014 NZ Sculpture OnShore, Tenth Biennial Exhibition, Auckland

2014 23rd Annual Wallace Art Awards,  Pah Homestead, Auckland

2014 DUST Art Collective Pop-up, Circle Gallery, Auckland

2013 The Light Fantastic, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke

2013 Black Asterisk Light Show, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland

2013 DUST 5.1, Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville

2013 Code and Reverie, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland

2013 Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, Auckland

AWARDS & FUNDING

2023 Finalist Aesthetica Art Prize

2018 Funding and Support received from New Zealand Embassy, London

2017 Funding and Support received from Manurewa Local Board, Auckland Council

2016 Funding and Support received from Creative New Zealand –WW100 Co-commissioning Fund

2015 Finalist (2nd place in category), Celeste 7th International Contemporary Art Prize

2015 Awarded – Distinguished Artist Award, ArtAscent, Art & Literature Journal, June 2015

2014 Finalist, 23rd Annual Wallace Art Awards

2013 Awarded the Gen-i Selector’s Award, Headland Sculpture On The Gulf, Waiheke

2008 Awarded the Wallace Arts Trust Award for Most Promising Visual Arts Postgraduate

2007 Awarded a Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Visual Arts), AUT University

PROJECTS

2019 Contemporary Art + Ritual, Crypt Gallery, London, May 2019

Co-curator and exhibiting artist – https://artandritual.wixsite.com/mysite

2016-2018 Cicatrix International Cultural Exchange, an international artist collaborative project:

http://cicatrixuk.wixsite.com/cicatrix

RESIDENCY

2016 Cicatrix Residency, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, UK

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

2014 Exploring the relationship between language, sound and form, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

2013 Research in and through practice, AUT University, Auckland

2007 The Dynamic Implications of Stasis, AUT University, Auckland

COLLECTIONS

The Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand

Luciano Benetton World Art Collection, Italy

Private collections New Zealand and UK

Additional details: www.carowilliams.com

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