Work in progress

Working in installation, the moving image and ever emerging technologies Gary James Williams' enquiries into the creative potentials of the narrative structure, exploring the perpetuation of the everyday and 'real-world phenomena' in contemporary art practice. At times strategically flaunting our relationship with the representational, the omnipresent and the fabrication of apparent universalisms, a continuing methodology in the artist's practice discusses a re-working of cultural imagery. Signifiers become the signified in the work's approaches and processes addressing issues of identity and authorship. To where more formal issues realise a uniqueness and authenticity, revealing a quieter sensitivity of our complex relationship with the material and the ephemeral.
As 'the spectacle constantly rediscovers its own assumptions more concretely' (Dubord), the artist's practice intentionally establishes a developing proposition of the viewer and the arena of story telling, finding an opening through the illusive, seductive and sensual world of projection and representation. Emphasising pure visual spectacle his work strategically comes to terms with the everyday in the emergence of new semiotic codes and vocabularies, developing mythologies and the pleasures of viewing.

Gary James Williams is an artist and educator. While teaching & lecturing in the UK he has exhibited extensively in Europe and the USA, including: 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.

Legend: Filling The Void acrylic on stretched silk, 183 x 152.5 x 5cm, 2003.
Redefining History #1 site specific stand - alone video installation, size: variable, 2001.
Only the Best Will Do 3 x VCR/screen stand - alone video work, size: variable, 1999.

E: garyjameswilliams@bankley.org.uk