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"Angel "
by Nigel Williams
Oil on canvas MMI (4' x 4')
(Courtesy of collection of Mr & Mrs S. Evans)
The recent work of Nigel Williams -
by
Ken Elias
MA
RCA
(Contemporary Welsh Artist)
" A strong sense of duality is evident in Nigel's recent work. Pictorially and psychologically they simultaneously say 'Welcome!' and 'Keep out!' The viewer is presented with an interesting and sometimes puzzling dichotomy between enclosure and disclosure. Repeatedly, a contrast is set up between open and closed physical and psychological spaces. The viewer is teased and challenged to enter these spaces, and when accessed they prove very difficult to leave. A sense of entrapment is achieved."
Ken Elias
MA RCA
Read about the work of Ken Elias
FURTHER EXAMPLES OF RECENT WORK CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE TWO OF NIGEL'S GALLERY SPACE HERE.
EITHER CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND COLUMN OR CLICK ON THE RIGHT ARROW AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE.
"Angel II"
by Nigel Williams
Oil on canvas (30cm x 30 cm framed)
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS:
1991 - First solo exhibition; Swansea Valley
1991 - Featured
HTV ‘PRIMETIME
’ arts television programme.
1994 - Second solo exhibition; Swansea Valley.
1994 - Illustrated ‘The First 100’ (Book).
1997 -‘
Aspects of Wales
(group exhibition) Pontardawe Art Centre.
1999 - ‘
Wales Drawing Biennale
’ -
Wrexham Art Centre
;
Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
;
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
;
Aberystwyth Art Centre.
1999 -
Ceri Richards Gallery
, Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea.
1999 - ‘
Watercolour Society of Wales
’ Anniversary Exhibition,
Newport Museum
.
2000 -
Washington Gallery, Penarth
, Cardiff (Second Year group exhibition).2000 - Pontardawe Arts Centre (Second Year group exhibition Part II)
2000 - August 14th
BBC RADIO WALES
Interview.
2000 - August -
Celtic Exchange Exhibition
, Pontardawe.
2000 - August -
Swansea Open Exhibition
, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea.
2001 - June -
The Factory
(Swansea School of Art &Design Degree Exhibition), Pontardawe.
2001 - July - Graduated from Swansea School of Art & Design with a
First Class (Hons) Degree
in Painting & Drawing).
2001
"Blankets, Shawls and Other Comforts"
2001 - Dec 20th - Featured on
HENO S4C TV.
Works in Private Collections:
Works in private collections in UK, Ireland and Australia. Work in collection of Powys County Council.
Please contact the artist either via artcymru at:
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Nigel Williams
was born and raised in Abercraf, in the Upper Swansea Valley. Having lived and worked in London for several years, he returned to the Swansea Valley in the early 80's and now lives in Ystradgynlais, a town best known for its connection with Josef Herman, who was inspired by the many miners of the area during the 1940's.
In July of 2001 Nigel graduated from Swansea School of Art & Design with a First Class Honours Degree in Painting & Drawing.
Nigel recently successfully completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Further Education at Cardiff University and is now lecturing part-time in Fine Art at Gorseinon College of Further Education.
In September 2002 he begins studies for an MA in Fine Art at Swansea Institute.
ARTISTS STATEMENT:
"My work has recently changed
towards a search for a resolution of personal formative experiences within a relatively poor, but loving, Swansea valley family of the nineteen sixties.
Undoubtedly inspired in many ways by the work of Ken Elias
MA
RCA,
of Glynneath, my work is an attempt to describe the continuing search for the innocent security of the shawls and blankets of my childhood."
ANAMORPHIC PERSPECTIVE
"Much of my early work revolves around the exploration of perspective systems. Western European perspective discoveries, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, displaced those of the indigenous people of conquered lands around the world and, in the work of artists like Australian artist Gordon Bennett, has come to signify the racial displacement of colonisation. This fascinates me and is something I wish explore further.
Sketch books
are an essential element in the development of my images. Rough pencil drawings are used to produce 'working drawings' (which can be of any size) - from which I can begin to produce a completed work.
It is often quite useful to overlay a grid of pencil lines on the working drawing (or I sometimes use a sheet of acetate with a grid drawn with an overhead projector pen), this allows me to enlarge the image in proportion - or 'scale up.'
Read about the process of enlarging an image using a grid
LANDSCAPES THE FORGOTTEN ART?
Although I currently work with the blanket theme I also continue to paint landscapes (my first love) and believe that landscape painting suffers from an appalling ignorance within contemporary art practice. Again, I try to use many methods of recording impressions or emotions. A single tree can convey many things to many people. It is this ambiguity of meaning, even within landscapes that matter to me.
See some examples of
Landscapes
by Nigel Williams
See more
'Blanket'
compositions by Nigel Williams
"News"
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NIGEL WILLIAMS
