Gary James Williams at Bankley Studios

Working in a broad interdisciplinary practice including painting, sculpture, the moving image and ever emerging technologies, Gary James Williams enquires into the creative potentials of the narrative structure in coming to terms with the everyday and real-world phenomena in contemporary art practice. Strategically flaunting our relationship with the representational, the omnipresent and the fabrication of apparent universalisms, a continuing methodology in the artists practice discusses a re-working of familiar cultural imagery. Signifiers become the signified in the works approaches and processes, addressing issues of identity and authorship, where more formal issues realise a uniqueness and authenticity, revealing a quieter sensitivity of our at times complex relationship with the material and the ephemeral. As the spectacle constantly rediscovers its own assumptions more concretely (Dubord), the artists practice intentionally establishes a developing proposition of the viewer and the arena of story telling, recovering an immediacy, finding an opening through the elusive, seductive and sensual world of projection and representation.

Gary James Williams is an artist and educator. While teaching,lecturing & practicing as artist in residence internationally, he has exhibited extensively in Europe and the USA, including: In Transcience - incidents & interventions... UK/NL touring exhibition: Galerie Forma Aktua,Groningen,NL. 2006/Yorkshire Art Space,Sheffield,UK.2007/Gallery Oldham,UK.2009., Queen Street Studios Gallery, Belfast,NI.,Unity Theatre, Videopositive, Liverpool. UK., Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University. UK., Holden & Righton Galleries Manchester Metropolitan University.UK., Royal Academy Bookshop, London. UK., Steim Foundation, Amsterdam. NL., Gallery, Eizeit, Berlin. D., Gallery, Karlsruhe. D., Basement Gallery, UC Davis, Ca. USA., Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Ca. USA. & the Art Tour Programme NYC. USA.

Artists Website URL : http://www.axisweb.org/artist/garyjameswilliams
Artists Email Address : garyjames_williams@hotmail.com