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Susan Williams

Onion skins and Pennies
2023

I make site responsive installations exploring materials, light and space. I use everyday materials with minimal intervention, keying into their surroundings, developing ideas as the work progresses. 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 often occur making links to the magical, the metaphysical, the spirit of a place. I am inspired by the everyday, the basics that are also the fundamentals of life which can reflect surprising aspects of our lives, our humanity.

Winter. Darkness. It’s the small things that let the light in. If you look. Folded into the everyday. Like the zing of cold water, the softness of the sky, the silence of snow. It’s like the onions in the soup that makes it taste so good. Not the big stuff, the blossoming, the surges, flourishes, highlights.

It’s the little things. Tiny moments of happiness. That get me through each day.

Susan Williams

I studied at Kingston University and the Royal Academy, London and have won national and international residencies including chaNorth Residency, NY and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Wyoming, USA.  Awarded membership to the Royal Society of Sculptors, I have shown my work throughout the UK and abroad.  Exhibitions include lakeside installations in Toledo, Spain and Laugarvatn, Iceland and exhibiting with the Stadtmuseum, Germany, the Geumgang Nature Art Biennial, Korea and most recently with ArtlyMix, San Paulo, Brazil.

A Londoner from birth, I have lived and worked in the town of Kettering, England, for the last eleven years.

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