Author: Sue Williams

  • COME TO SUNNY PRESTATYN

    COME TO SUNNY PRESTATYN

    This is not an exhibition about Prestatyn, but about the disturbing poem Sunny Prestatyn and its problematic poet Philip Larkin. It describes a poster of a girl saying “Come to Sunny Prestatyn” and its eventual decline into debauched defacements and erasure on a train station platform. Written 60 years ago, the poem touches on issues…

  • RAPTURES & RUPTURES

    RAPTURES & RUPTURES

    26 March – 30 April 2022 TEN is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by award-winning artist Sue Williams. RAPTURES & RUPTURES features Williams’s latest body of paintings on canvas and mixed media drawings. Akin to pages from a visual diary, published for all to see, Williams’s characteristically bold and immediate paintings…

  • No Sweat, My Pink Red Ruby Lips Shout Back

    No Sweat, My Pink Red Ruby Lips Shout Back

     Fully Awake 6:6 The culmination of a six part exhibition cycle at Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art November 4th 2021 – December 17th 2021 Fully Awake is a cycle of six exhibitions which embraces an inter-generational approach to celebrating the practice and teaching of painting. Curated by Ian Hartshorne & Sean Kaye for the organisation Teaching Painting, whose remit…

  • DO YOU SPEAK MY LANGUAGE?

    DO YOU SPEAK MY LANGUAGE?

    2020 ply, perspex, paper, ink, acrylic, spray paint + fairy lights, 70 x 20 x 30cm ply, perspex, paper, ink, acrylic, spray paint + fairy lights, 70 x 20 x 30cm

  • I WILL….I WANT 2021

    I WILL….I WANT 2021

    Her ‘adolescent me’  allows the flexibility of her mind to freely take over – playing out all her fantasies … the eternal battle between her body and soul – let the  fantasy play out…  gallery TEN 2021 A series of mixed media works on paper created during the covid-19 pandemic lockdowns Images copyright : gallery…

  • BARE RED 1 – 3

    BARE RED 1 – 3

    A unique body of work created during lockdown has been purchased by the National Library of Wales. These emotive, raw and challenging works are iconic additions to the National Library of Wales’ collections in Aberystwyth. They reflect upon mental health, loneliness and the central importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Library is proud to…

  • CONVERS[ISOL]ATION

    CONVERS[ISOL]ATION is a collaborative project between Sue Williams and Marilyn Allen, which responds to the experience of social isolation during COVID 19, 2020. CONVERS[ISOL]ATION adopts a very different format to conventional art theory texts in that emphasis is placed upon a dialogue between theory and practice rather than an analysis of one by the other.…

  • OPEN BOOKS

    OPEN BOOKS

    Funded by Wales Arts International, Sanshang Museum of Contemporary Art and University of Wales Trinity St David Swansea . The Sangshang Museum of Contemporary Art in Hangzhou invited OPEN BOOKS to be exhibited between September and December 2013 and was an integral part of a programme looking at the tradition of folding and expanding artist books and…

  • ESTIRANDO EL TIEMPO

    ESTIRANDO EL TIEMPO

    ESTIRANDO EL TIEMPO – O COMO NO CAER EN LA HISTERIA – AN MIXED MEDIA EXHIBITION DEVELOPED AND CURATED BY ELIZABETH ROSS. CASA DE LA CULTURA. STARTING NOVEMBER 22 2019

  • LoveLustLonging

    LoveLustLonging

    GOLDEN THREAD GALLERY 84 – 94 Great Patrick Street BELFAST  BT1 2LU OPENING: 18TH APRIL – 25TH MAY 2019 Immerse yourself in the visual overload of ‘LoveLustLonging’, Sue Williams’ first solo exhibition in the North of Ireland in more than a decade.In this exhibition internationally renowned artist Sue Williams reflects the sense of a society…