Sue Williams
Sue Williams explores the rich and complex subject of human sexual relationships, dysfunction, gender communication and our dependency on social media where all aspects of human emotion, well- being, life, death, ego and vulnerability lies. Human relationships are altering as technology is taking over from the conventional form of communication and interaction. Online chat-rooms have become the norm and are often turned to as the alternative to reality. Sue Williams plays with fantasy and reality and the impact upon sexual relationships feeding the artists desire to further explore, understand and translate the meaning of ‘communication’ between people, confronting the rich core of human sexuality and in turn exposing the darkness and the humour.
RECENT & RELEVANT
2020
Works recently bought by National Library of Wales
LUST LONGING LOVE by SUE WILLIAMS & MARILYN ALLEN
ISBN: 978-1-9160411-2-7
2018
Received ACW grant - `STUDIO 18 Bridging the Gap exhibition
2014
Professor of Fine Art at University Wales Trinity Saint David
Speaker: Feminist Perspectives and Art Practice: Artes Mundi
2013
Selected for Artists Pension Trust London
Board of Trustees, AXISWEB
Higher Education Academy Fellow
2012
Resident Artist (RA) with the National Dance Company Wales
‘Touch Me’ design collaboration with Fresh-West Design Ltd
2011
‘CRACKED’ a multi-medium collaboration with
National Dance Company Wales, Millennium Centre, Wales
‘Phantoms of Us’ collaboration with choreographer Eleesha Young-Drennan
2010
Visiting Advisor for the Rijk Akademie Amsterdam Holland
‘IMBUE’ a collaboration with choreographer Eleesha Young-Drennan of National Dance Company Wales
2009
Received Creative Wales Award
‘SHH!’ a collaboration with choreographer Roy Campbell-Moore, dance performers Jem Treays and Chloe Loftus in response to Sue Williams’ work.
Registered/trade-marked ‘nomorepink’ for further art-based concepts
2006
Selected for the ARTES MUNDI 2006
Selected for The Women’s Art Library Special Collections, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Selector for the Kevin Slingsby Prize Funnel Vision, The Ruskin, Oxford
1996 – 99
Visual Arts Board, Arts Council of Wales
1976 – 87
BA, MA Hons Fine Art Painting
PRESENTATION – LECTURING - TEACHING POSITIONS
Present
Professor of Fine Art, Swansea College of Art UWTSD
Programme Director in Fine Art, Swansea College of Art UWTSD
2015
THROB presentation Reardon Smith Theatre
THROB presentation Riverfront, Newport
Speaker at The British Society for Sexual Medicine Annual Conference
2014
Lecture presented to Contemporary Art Society of Wales
2013
Lecture at The China Academy of Art, Hangzhou China
2007 – 08
Research Fellowship with CIRIC, Dynevor, Swansea
2004
Speaker at The Glynn Vivian gallery, Swansea - ELSEWHERE
Speaker at the National Museum & Galleries of Wales - A PROPOS
Project Co-ordinator for “Seeing Drawing" DVD University of Plymouth and London Institute
Speaker at the National Women’s Conference, Gregynog, Wales
2002 – 2010
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. Wales
2000
Faculty of Art & Design, University of Plymouth, Exeter Devon
DRAWING PROGRAMMES - RESIDENCIES
2000
Drawing Programme ongoing
WIDE OPEN’ drawing installation
2006
Drawing from ‘the book to the wall’, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
2002
Drawing to Leonardo da Vinci, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Wales
2001
SITE-ATIONS Project, Staten Island, New York
1999 – 2002
Drawing Programme. University Wales Institute, Cardiff. Wales
1997
BODYWORKS funded by European funding CARTOON.
AWARDS - COMMISSIONS
2018
Received Research Funding UWTSD – production of limited edition prints with Print Market Project.
2016
Arts Council of Wales Training and Development Funding - Learning Film Editing Directing and Artistic Processes
2015
Arts Council of Wales Major Arts Award for THROB
2013
Arts Council of Wales Tour Funding for ‘SHH!’
Wales Arts International Funding - China
Commissioned by Hole Editions Print Workshop with Tamarind Master Printer Lee Turner
2012
Wales Arts International – New York City
Film commission WATCH ME …I KNOW HER, I THINK I DO!’ – OutCasting Fourth Wall Festival 2012
CRACKED commissioned to perform by Cardiff Contemporary
2011
Wales Arts International – New York
2009
Creative Wales Award
2006
Arts Council of Wales Project Grant
2002
A Propos - National Museum & Gallery of Wales
2000
National Eisteddfod Gold Medal Award 2000
Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Award for Painting 2000
UNG - YOUNG - JUNG, Avesta Biennale 2000 Sweden
PURCHASES - COLLECTIONS
National Library of Wales
National Museum & Galleries of Wales
National Assembly for Wales
Contemporary Art Society
Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction, The Orangery, Margam Park, Wales
South Glamorgan County Council
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Numerous private collections worldwide
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - CATOLOGUES
2020
LUST LONGING LOVE by SUE WILLIAMS & MARILYN ALLEN
ISBN: 978-1-9160411-2-7
CONVERS[ISOL]ATION - a collaborative project between Sue Williams and Marilyn Allen, which responds to the experience of social isolation during COVID 19, 2020.
2018
Contemporary Arts Society Wales Then & Now
Vis-à-Vis Oriel y Bont University of South Wales
2017
OPEN BOOKS (no. 3) INDIA
2016
OPEN BOOKS (no. 3) CANADA
2015
OPEN BOOKS (no. 2) AUSTRALIA
2014
Artisterium, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
2013
OPEN BOOKS (no. 1) CHINA
2010
‘We have the walls, we have the plans’ Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
2009
NY Arts Magazine - April 2009 edition
2007
GOOD FOUNDATIONS by Paul Glinkowski Funded and produced by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation
NY Arts Magazine - Jan/Feb 2007 edition
2006
Artes Mundi International Art Prize 2006
‘small talk, high heels’ Sue Williams – commissioned by the Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea
Open frequency https://www.axisweb.org/archive/profile/open-frequency/sue-williams-2006/
2005
IMAGINING THE IMAGINATION by Christine Kinsey and Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan. Gomer Publications
2004
ELSEWHERE – Glyn Vivian Gallery publication written by Hugh Adams
2003
IMAGING WALES contemporary art in context by Hugh Adams by Seren Publications Ltd
HERE & NOW essays on contemporary art in Wales by Iwan Bala and published by Seren Publications Ltd
2001
SUE WILLIAMS written by Iwan Bala. Planet Publications
DARLLEN DELWEDDAU written by Iwan Bala. Carreg Gwalch Publication
META - Imaging the Imagination
2000
The Artists Project presents CLEAN SLATE and The European Artists Network Conference
'PAINTING Ysbryd - Spirit Wales' - Contemporary Practise with Paint. Forward written by Art Critic Norbert Lynton
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS - WORKS
2020
BARE RED – Lockdown exhibition Gallery TEN Cardiff
2019
LoveLustLonging – Golden Thread Gallery Belfast
2018
MY CHERRY BOMB – STUDIO 18 Pontycymer Wales – Gallery TEN.
2017
I SEE RED - Gallery TEN. Cardiff
2016
FEELY - BayArt Gallery Cardiff
2015
TOUCHY - Gallery TEN. Cardiff
THROB: EXPOSURE at National Museum & Galleries of Wales (8 Nov 2015) Presentation and expose by collaborative artists
THROB: PERFORMANCE at The Riverfront (13 Nov 2015) Staged performance by collaborative artists
2012
‘POKE ME’ Ffin y Parc Galery, Conwy, North Wales
‘POKE ME!’ SL Gallery, London
2011
‘CRACKED’ a multi-medium collaboration with National Dance Company Wales, Millennium Centre, Wales
‘Phantoms of us’ collaboration with choreographer Eleesha Young- Drennan
2010
‘STRAPLESS’ a dialogue between Artist and Psychoanalyst
new works under the umbrella title ‘TULU GIRLS’
‘IMBUE’ collaboration with choreographer Aleesha Drennon
National Dance Company Wales, Millennium Centre Wales
2009
‘SHH!’ drawing installation from ‘dirty linen online’ series
National Dance Company Wales, Millennium Centre Wales
2008
‘small talk, high heels’ Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
2007
‘small talk, high heels’ National Gallery of Harare, Zimbabwe
‘small talk, high heels’ National Gallery of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
2006
A Glyn Vivian touring exhibition ‘small talk, high heels’
Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
Open Frequency, Axis - https://www.axisweb.org/archive/profile/open-frequency/sue-williams-2006/
Artes Mundi 2006
2005
Three Parts Iced Over. A Striking Attitudes performance and exhibition, Cardiff
2002
Washington Gallery, Penarth, South Glamorgan. Wales
2001
‘ALL HERS’ Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran, Gwent. Wales
National Assembly for Wales
Welsh Parliamentary Buildings, Brussel
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Selected artist for Elizabeth Ross exhibition – Queretaro City Museum Mexico
Contemporary Arts Society Wales - Then & Now Pierhead Cardiff
Vis-à-vis – Conversation Project – June/July 2018
Vis-à-vis Exhibition – September 2018
By Invitation – Royal Cambrian Academy
2017
Frenando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid
OPEN BOOKS – INDIA
2016
“Exquisite Corpse” - Gold + Beton, Koln, Germany
Frenando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid
OPEN BOOKS – CANADA
OPEN BOOKS - AUSTRALIA
2015
“Exquisite Corpse” Fuse Art Space, Bradford
2014
Artisterium, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
OPEN BOOKS The Hui Gallery CUHK in Hong Kong
OPEN BOOKS Logan Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
‘HOME’ exhibition, Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax, Yorkshire
Three/Tair – Three women, Gallery Ten, Cardiff
2013
OPEN BOOKS The Sanshang Museum Of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China
OPEN BOOKS touring exhibition National Library Aberyswyth
OPEN BOOKS touring exhibition Bay Arts Cardiff
2011
'Carte Blanche' Analix Forever, Geneva
2010
Sue Williams – Robert Slingsby, Gallery Genesis, Athens
‘We have the mirrors, we have the plans’. Oriel Mostyn Llandudno Wales
2008
Shang Yunsu Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2007
56 Group Show Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran, Wales
2006
Artes Mundi - National Museum & Galleries of Wales
2005
Selected for the Mostyn 15 Open, Llandudno, Wales
2004
ELSEWHERE - Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
META - Bay Art Gallery, Bute Street, Cardiff
Harlech Biennale/The Hague
2003
Selected for the Mostyn 13 Open, Llandudno, Wales
Work selected from National Museum & Galleries of Wales Collection for Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys
“META” Aberystwyth, Wales
Welsh Contemporaries, London
2002
‘A Propos’ Ceri Richards, The National Museum of Wales
Ysbryd Spirit Wales, Le Salle Aragon, Trelaze, France
Ysbryd Spirit Wales, Le Centre Culturel, Carhaix, France
Ysbryd Spirit Wales, Le Chambre de Commerceet de l’Industrie, Festival Interceltique de L’Orient, France
2001
Group Exhibition Painting Ysbryd/Spirit Wales, The Mall Galleries, London
National Eisteddfod 2001
2000
- Group Exhibition Painting Ysbryd/Spirit Wales, Glamorgan University, Pontypridd, Wales
· Avesta Art 2000 Sweden
· Drawing Exhibition University of Lincolnshire and Humberside
· The Welsh Contemporaries, Riverside Studios, London