Here are some photographs from the exhibition I recently put together, based around my book, Viewing Pleasure and Being A Showgirl, How Do I Look? Thanks to the artists who took part: Sophie Lisa Beresford, Julie Cook, Nwando Ebizie as Lady Vendredi, Alice Finch, Laura Gonzalez, Lucy Halstead, Sharon Kivland, Britten Leigh, Chloe Nightingale, and Isabella Streffen.
I’m delighted to share that my practice is going to be supported by A-N mentoring with the curator, Lucy Day over the next year and the Freelands Artist Programme over the next two years. I know both of these will help support my growth as an artist, so I am very grateful for these opportunities.
I’m putting together a group show for the Market Gallery, Huddersfield. It is based on the conclusion of my recently published book. Come join me for the opening 11th October.
I had so much fun showing my work at Abingdon Studios in Blackpool. Here’s the documentation. Thanks to Abingdon Studios Project Space and images courtesy Matt Wilkinson. So grateful to show my new video work Felicity Means Happiness for the first time in Blackpool.
Double Bill afternoon with Beam the play and workshop
Monday 8th October, 2pm-4.30pm
Refreshments provided, £10, this is a dementia friendly event
Theatre Delicatessen, 202 Eyre Street, Sheffield S1 4QZ
Left to right: Manifesto (2017), Ascending A Staircase, Library Theatre, Sheffield, 2018, Ascending A Staircase, City Varities, Leeds
Rowan Bailey put together the first show at the Market Gallery as part of the Temporary Contemporary collaboration between the University of Huddersfield and Kirklees Council and the Huddersfield covered market. Space, Place Action brought together the research staff at the university. I used the opportunity to test out my new series of theatre interior photographs, Ascending A Staircase.
Sean Williams’s exhibition For A Burning Love has transferred to The Old Lock Up, Cromford. The exhibition opening afternoon was really great, the exhibition remains open until 25th February
Contemporary British Painting featured the show in it’s newsletter:
In January ‘For a Burning Love’ moves to the Old Lock Up Gallery in Cromford, a space that, fittingly some might say, used to be a jail. ‘For a Burning Love‘ celebrates and demonstrates the breadth of contemporary painting and includes works by Mandy Payne and Sean Williams. It encompasses highly-detailed realism and gestural abstraction, paintings that are almost sculptures and photographs interrupted by the introduction of paint. In this way ‘For a Burning Love’ questions what a painting might be and so, in turn, questions our fixed ideas about most things. ‘For a Burning Love’ may also offer a clue into why artists choose to use paint over other media to express their ideas and explore possibilities.
The Old Lock Up Gallery
19 The Hill, Swifts Hollow, Cromford, Derbyshire, DE4 3QHJ
Preview: Saturday January 20th, 1 – 4pm
Exhibition dates: 20 January – 25 February
Opening times: Thursday – Saturday 11am – 6pm, Sunday 11am -4.30pm
Square Peg, an ArtCan Members exhibition at the Circle Gallery, Sheffield, is open from 2 February – 30 March 2018. The show restricts works to 2ft x 2ft dimensions and considers artist’s experiences of being square pegs in round holes, curated by my good friend, Kate Enters–lovely to have her visiting Sheffield to put it together! Exhibition catalogue online here.
I used the opportunity to show photographs from the Library Theatre.
Photo credit courtesy of HOME, Manchester
I took part in an innovative panel discussion, a symposium created by Victoria Lucas, in January, at HOME in Manchester. You can watch the event here.