Approved: 16.08.2006

Sue Williams

Artist, Lecturer / academic

Approved: 16.08.2006

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

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  • Location: Cardiff, Wales
  • Artforms: Drawing, Installation, Mixed media, Performance
  • Tags: drawing, installation, painting, visual art, contemporary drawing, contemporary painting, text, diversity, gender, sexual communication, contemporary art practice, censorship
 
 

Artist Statement

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.

CV & Education

 

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