ROBERT WILLIAMS AND GARY WILLIAMS - GLASS AND INK
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Updated: Nov 12
SIXTEEN GALLERY | 20 -- 26 NOVEMBER
GLASS AND INK BRINGS TOGETHER TWO ARTISTS PRESENTING SIMULTANEOUS EXHIBITIONS OF BODIES OF WORK IN MOSAIC AND PRINTMAKING.
ROBERT WILLIAMS PRESENTS NOT JUST PLAYING ALONGSIDE GARY WILLIAM'S STORIES MEMORIES AND DAYDREAMS
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ROBERT WILLIAMS
NOT JUST PLAYING is a new project experimenting with recycled glass to create innovative mosaics that examines the dynamics and constraints of child development.
Over 30 new mosaics have been created to explore, for example, love, dance, esteem, family, play, movement, flux, tenderness, tekkers, belonging, community and connectedness. At the same time, this project involves further development of Robert’s visual language through experimentation with recycled and stained glass to create innovative, modern, compassionate, expressive and conceptually rigorous mosaics. Robert’s practice includes reflexivity about the rapidly changing context of children and families in the UK. His work is informed by over 30 years practice focussed on child health.
(50% of profits from Robert’s sales will be donated to local Children’s Centres).
GARY WILLIAMS
STORIES, MEMORIES AND DAYDREAMS is Gary Williams latest body of work.
"My original prints are developed from my pencil sketches, ink drawings and occasionally paintings. For me every image, whether real or imagined, has a story. My narrative around the story may not be the same as your story. However, that’s fine as we all react to images in a way that is completely our own. I would be hard pressed to say my work follows a particular theme or style. Some of
my prints are simply observations captured in my sketch books. Others are based on memories, snippets of poetry, a book, music or simply day dreaming. The natural world and outdoors however, does feature heavily in my work. At present I’m happy to continue to explore various printing techniques rather than focus on a single facet of printing.
The works on show include lino, drypoint and collagraph prints as well as wood engravings. Each print is individually printed either by hand burnishing or on my etching press. Some take several months to complete. The number of prints in each edition is strictly limited to the number stated on the print – the maximum for a particular edition will be no more than 20 prints. No subsequent editions will be printed. In part this is because I have too many new ideas to explore and get on with."
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