Susan Williams

Kettering

I work with site-responsive installation, video and photography and use light, space, air and materials to explore a place and its connections.

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Susan Williams received her MA in Fine Art at the Royal Academy, London, and her BA in Fine Art at Kingston University. She works with site-responsive installation, video and photography. Susan uses light, space, air and a variety of materials to explore a place and its connections, creating a kind of fingerprint of that moment in time. Some of her work is kinetic and involves lightweight materials moving in the wind. This work has developed into a larger research project, aiming to make installations in different parts of the world to create an archive of the winds and places of our planet.

'My aim is to make what is already there more visible, at times capturing what we don’t normally see, light, wind, space, the potency of a colour. Illusions such as floating and evanescence reoccur in my work making further links to magic and the metaphysical. I use materials linked to the everyday and I am inspired by ordinary life and the need to find meaning in our lives.'

Susan has won national and international residencies which include the Vermont Studio Center and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Wyoming. Awarded membership to the Royal Society of Sculptors, Susan has shown her work throughout the UK and abroad. Exhibitions include lakeside installations in Toledo, Spain and Laugarvatn, Iceland and exhibiting with the Stadtmuseum, Germany and Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Korea.

A Londoner from birth, Susan has lived and worked in the town of Kettering, England, for the last six years.

Untitled, work in progress.

Touching Me 2

2020.

Weight and Wait

Rest

Missing

Fall Out

Isolation

Untitled wool lens

Lockdown

Airborne ( Black Tissue 3)

Separation ( Black Tissue 2)

Qualifications

1996 - MA Postgraduate Diploma, Royal Academy Schools, London W1.

1993 - BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture (1st), Kingston University, Kingston.

1990 - Foundation with Distinction, University of Westminster, Harrow.

Residencies

2021 - Ace Award: Pop in the Park, Wicksteed Park, Kettering, UK. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

2018 - ChaShaMa Residency, Pine Plains, NY, USA.

2018 - International Women and Mud Symposium, Toledo, Spain.

2017 - TRB Residency and Collaboration, Santa Barbara, California, USA.

2017 - Brush Creek Residency Award, Saratoga, Wyoming, USA.

2016 - Guest artist, Hard Core Apple Event, Fermyn Woods contemporary Arts, Northants, UK.

2016 - International Women and Mud Symposium, El Arreciado, Sevilleja de la Jara, Spain.

2016 - Brisons Veor Residency, Cape Cornwall, Penzance, UK.

2016 - International BROOM IN BLOOM flower symposium, Hoyocasero, Spain.

2015 - Gullkistan Residency, Iceland.

2014 - El Arreciado Residency, Sevilleja de la Jara, Spain.

2014 - Artspace One Residency, Northants, UK

2013 - Brisons Veor Residency, Cape Cornwall, Penzance, UK.

2013 - International Wool Symposium, El Arreciado , Sevilleja de la Jara, Spain.

2012 - Sculpture Shock Residency, RBS, London, highly commended application.

2010 - Chateau de Sacy Residency, Picardy, France, short listed.

2007 - VSC Fellowship, Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, USA

2006 - VSC Fellowship, Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, USA

Solo exhibitions and Art in Public Places.

2020 - Butterfly Break, Temporary Commission, Museum Gardens, Kettering, UK.

2018 - Kettfest Festival, Museum House Gardens, Kettering, Northants, UK.

2017 - Kettfest Festival, Alfred East Garden, Kettering, Northants, UK.

2017 - Goleta Beach Installation, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

2016 - Tribute, Cape Cornwall event, Cornwall, UK.

2016 - Legend, Woon Gumpus Common, Cornwall, UK.

2016 - Kettfest Festival, Garden of Rest, Kettering, Northants, UK

2015 - Transparency, West House Gallery, Pinner, London HA5, UK.

2015 - Laugarvatn Lakeside Installation, Iceland.

2014 - First Art Kit Events, Stamford Road, Northants, UK.

2014 - Firebreak, Arreciado Lakeside Installation, Toledo, Spain.

2013 - Appearance Exhibition, HAC Gallery, Hatchend, London, HA5., UK.

2013 - Brissons Veor Residency Events, Priests Cove, Cornwall, UK.

2013 - Cocktail Exhibition, West House Gallery, Pinner, London, HA5, UK.

2012 - Streaming, Harrow Recreation Ground, London HA1, UK.

2010 - Attraction Exhibition, Cunningham Park, London HA1, UK.

Group exhibitions

2020 - Coantivirus International Online Exhibition, NYplus, China.

2020 - Instagram :TRS projects, 600 sq ft, haus-a-rest, Gravy, Gardens of Earthly Delight.

2019 - Conversations in Sculpture, Huddersfield Gallery, Yorkshire, UK.

2018 - Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2018, Gongju, Chungnam Province, KOREA

2017 - Open Studios, Rusty Barn, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

2017 - Open studio Events, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, Wyoming, USA.

2017 - Double Yolk Collective Show, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UK..

2016 - BROOM IN BLOOM, Hoyocasero, Spain.

2016 - Wheelbarrow, Sculpture Network NYB16, Artspace Studios, Northants, UK..

2015 - NOST Prize winners, Primrose Gallery, Northampton, Northants, UK..

2015 - NOST Central, Alfred East Gallery, Kettering, Northants, UK..

2015 - Kettfest Festival, The Yards, Kettering, Northants, UK..

2015 - Paper III, Stadtmuseum and Handwerkmuseum, Deggendorf, Germany.

2015 - Open Studio Events, Gullkistan Residency, Laugarvatn, Iceland.

2015 - Kettfest, The Yards, Kettering, Northants, UK..

2015 - Size Matters? Sculpture Network NYB15, Artspace Studios, Northants.

2014 - Little Gems, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland.

2014 - OMM Project, NN Gallery Project Space, Northants.

2014 - Flavour, Artspace Studios, Northants.

2014 - Acquiescence, Moray Arts Centre, Findhorn, Moray, Scotland.

2014 - Gallery 202, traveling exhibition, NN Gallery venue1, Northants.

2014 - Opening, Artspace Studios, Kettering, Northants.

2013 - 1 Hour, Fermyn Woods Arts Centre, Brigstock, Northants.

2013 - NOS Central, Oakapple Gallery, Sywell, Northants.

2013 - Four, Artspace Studios, Kettering, Northants.

2012 - Culture, White Gallery, HAC, Hatch End, London HA5.

2012 - Reception, London Road Studios, Northwich, Cheshire.

2011 - Open Door, Weldon Centre, Harrow, London HA1

2011 - NYB Presentation, Brockley, London SE4

2010 - Evoke, Gayton Art Space, Harrow, London HA1.

2009 - 18@108, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London SW7.

2008 - Gathering, Cockpit Arts Studios, Cockpit Yard, London WC1.

2007 - Spotlight, Cockpit Studios, London WC1.

2006 - Climate Change, London Art Online.

2005 - The Look Here Show, Battersea Arts Centre London SW11.

2005 - Mix, Voltaire Studios, Clapham, London SW18.

2004 - Materials Matters, West House, Pinner, London HA5.

Committees and Memberships

RBS Award Winner and Associate Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

APT Research group exploring the inquiry ‘Is there a place in time’ 2013 ongoing.

EXHIBIT Founder Member and former Treasurer of arts group connecting and supporting artists 2010/13.

ARTSPACE Founder, Chair and lead artist in an organization promoting access to art 2002/06.

APTHORPE PRIZE Harrow adjudicator for the Apthorpe Art Prize 2000-02.

ASP Trustee to the Board of Art and Sacred Places, promoting contemporary art in sacred places, 1999/01.

RASAA Royal Academy Students Alumni Association 1996/present.

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Susan Williams

Untitled, work in progress.

Touching Me 2

2020.

Weight and Wait

Rest

Missing

Fall Out

Isolation

Untitled wool lens

Lockdown

Airborne ( Black Tissue 3)

Separation ( Black Tissue 2)

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