2020

 
Ascending A Staircase, Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 1894, 2020
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm
How Can I Perform As An Image? (Catherine Hamilton and Burgundy Circle)
Collage on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
How Can I Perform As An Image (Getty Jasonne with Gold Triangle Head)
Collage on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
How Can I Perform As An Image? (Erni Erica with Gold Square)
Collage on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)
How Can I Perform As An Image (Abstract / Bauhaus Catherine Hamilton)
Collage on A4 paper (210 x 297 mm)
How Can I Perform As An Image? (multicolour silhouette Getty Jasonne)
Watercolour on A4 paper (210 x 297 mm)
Pose and Shadow, Dorothy Dilley
Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)

Showgirl Manifesto Documentation

Jan 052019
 

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. 

For A Burning Love, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford

Jan 202018
 

Sean Williams’s exhibition For A Burning Love has transferred to The Old Lock Up, Cromford. 

Contemporary British Painting featured the show in it’s newsletter: 

For a Burning Love

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

The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality

Jan 162018
 

A chapter I have written on the representation of strippers in the media and contemporary art has been published. It is in the Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality by Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood and Brian McNair.

In it, I write about pop videos, films, popular feminist critical perspectives, academic writing, and activism. I also write about artworks including the Girlie Show by Edward Hopper, Lucky 13 by Philip-Lorca Di Corca, The Politics of Rehearsal by Francis Alys, Abstraction Licking by Christina Lucas, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s collages, Strip by Jemima Stehli, performance pieces Strike a Pose by Kate Spence, and Sister by Rosana and Amy Cade.