cv selected from 2000

 

FUTURE PLANS

Upcoming publications for Bloomsbury Academic Publishing (London & New York): Wife, Witch, Whore: Essential Conversations about Gender, Art and Culture (2025)

RECENT

2021
Keynote artist speaker at International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – A Joan Eardley Event Dundee University

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

 

• IIMAGING 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

 

2022

·       Raptures & Ruptures Gallery TEN Cardiff

 

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

 

2021

·       Fully Awake 6:6 Teaching Painting Holden Gallery Manchester

·       We_Are_Ok_ We_Are_Not_Ok BUKA BUKU The GoDown Malaysia

·       TEN Gallery Winter Show

 

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