De-Ciphering “A cipher is any method of encrypting text (concealing its readability and meaning). Its origin is the Arabic sifr, meaning empty or zero.” In her text on Souvenirs, Susan Stewart writes: ‘The souvenir is destined to be forgotten; its […]
South London Gallery. Pursuit of perfection: the politics of sport www.southlondongallery.org Wellcome Collection. Superhuman: exploring human enhancement from 600BCE to 2050. www.wellcomecollection.org I’m not really interested in sport itself, but found both these shows fascinating – possibly influenced by the […]
This person is art-starving. Apart from on the computer-screen I haven’t seen any art since my delirious visit of the Louise Bourgeois-exhibition at the Freud Museum in May. Driving back from an interesting if challenging hospital appointment the other day […]
Well I think I have solved the installation problem for the boats, so that is a relief. They will form a fleet around the Bronze Age Boat, suspended from the beams. I have been asked to put on a workshop […]
I’ve written so many statements in the last few days, it’s all becoming a bit of a blur now. I’ve now ( I think) sorted the blurb for the first of the Independents exhibitions : http://www.independentsbiennial.org/2012/08/03/thus-far-the-miles-an-installation-by-wendy-williams-15-30-september/ I have so many […]
I sit here with a beer (Bishop’s Finger), and a scotch egg (farm, not Sainsbury’s). A celebratory mood has taken over. The recording for the song is now finished. Just the mix to do. I have had a frantic week, […]
Having undergone a major £5m redevelopment, Walthamstow’s William Morris Gallery reopens to the public today.
As part of The National Trust’s Playful Landscapes contemporary art programme, London Fieldworks re-imagine the lost architecture of Clumber Park and an aristocratic menagerie.
York St Mary’s, York
25 May – 4 November 2012
I find myself a bit over-emotional of late. I am on the brink. Several brinks in fact. I am about to install some of my work at Junction Festival in Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton. This has had its difficulties along the […]
Or this? Boats stitched together. The stitching would fit in with the fact that the planks of Dover’s Bronze Age Boat were stitched together and the stitches have been preserved, though deliberately cut when the boat was put out of […]
Writing a statement is hard enough at the best of times, but having spent so long searching for words or pseudo intellectual phrases to pad one out to give it enough bulk, we now found ourselves in the awkward situation […]
WOW! What an amazing day! Those of you who follow this blog regularly may remember in May I posted the creative goings on during Taunton’s Olympic torch ceremony, one of those in particular being, ‘The Somerset Journey’ which began on […]
Mirrors – like this one can see the sides of the boats.It might be nice to have lots of different mirrors – only trouble is there is not much floor space … which would make hanging them down from from […]
I have three lots of artwork on the go at the moment – all needed for the Liverpool Independents Biennial starting on 15 September and no end in sight for any of them : http://www.independentsbiennial.org/2012/05/04/registered-artist-wendy-williams/ So, while I’ve been spending […]
sky drawings These drawings were made in response to the site. I’m asking myself why I have begun to draw the body, particularly in an unfinished, disembodied and floating state. They are so simple and naive they remind me of […]
The opening of the show is today. I have spent a lot of time up ladders and intend to spend more time up a ladder this evening..3 hours in fact. I have stuck all the reviews published in Summer 1998 […]
I’ve finished my paper, now working on my folio and I’m happy to say that I’ve been drawing and making, isn’t that fabulous?! And all of my pieces are liable to topple in a moment, I’ve already disassembled five towers […]
Had a slight mid-residency panic. On Tuesday the gargantuan task I have set myself of producing 64 new drawings hit home. It wasn’t so much the quantity of work that started to scare me, more the danger of seizing up […]
The next few days will be spent getting ready for my first solo exhibition at Milton Keynes. I put in two proposals which were both liked, with a slight preference for one of them. I would really like to know […]
I usually have a clear vision of what I want to say and the direction in which my thoughts will take me when I sit down to write these posts – this week is different. It’s been a week of […]
found 8 more dead trees today – happy days! just got to recruit my husband to take me out on the back of his motorbike so i can do countryside paparazzi style photos as none of them where anywhere near […]
The Code of Practice for the Visual Arts, published by a-n, now includes negotiating advice and a unique guide to working out what artists should charge.
