September 2013

Still from Dream House (c) Mandy Williams 2013

At the beginning of August I found out that my video Dream House had been selected for the Cairo Video Festival, which takes place from the 25 September to 7 October. The Cairo Video Festival, curated by Mohamed Allam and Dia Hamed, presents a diverse program of experimental film and video art from around the world. Dream House screens on Saturday 5 October in a programme that includes videos made by artists from Canada, Austria, Australia, Scotland and the USA.

(c) Mandy Williams 2013

Earlier in the month I produced a short audio piece, 20 minute journey, for an open call called Intermission: Audio portraits of place - Mapping the space between A and B. The work was selected by Jennie Savage and Nuno Torres from the Echoes project in Lisbon to be broadcast on Portugese Radio on 21 and 22 September in the 'Convergence' programme of the event.

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August 2013

Still from Inside (c) Mandy Williams 2010

Very excited to have had my video, Inside, selected for the Washington Project of the Arts Experimental Media Screening 2013 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design, Washington on 23 September. The event is one of two screenings organised by the WPA - the other being at the Phillips Collection - that feature works which explore and examine privacy and surveillance in contemporary society. Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media at Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, has selected the program.

Also in the USA, I'm contributing a small photograph on aluminium, House #5, for a benefit in Detroit later this month. The benefit, organised by Museum of New Art's Director Jef Bourgeau, will raise money for MoNA and includes work by 75 artists, including Pae White, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Uta Barth and Iain Baxter.

House #5 (c) Mandy Williams 2009

Over the past couple of months I've begun to collect ideas for a new video project which I hope to begin shooting in October.

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July 2013

In June my video, Inside, was screened at Firstsite in Colchester for the Playing with Space Artist Film Screening curated by Lawrence Bradby as part of RIBA’s Love Architecture Festival 2013. The invitation came as a result of being a member of Axis. I didn't get to attend the event but the programme looked very interesting with films by Alex Pearl, Ruairi Watson and Claire Hope amongst others.

(c) Mandy Williams 2012

In early July I found out that one of my photographs, Before #7, had been selected for the Hot-One-Hundred exhibition at Schwartz Gallery in Hackney Wick. The show features 100 artists and the work was chosen by Ismail Erbil and Patrick Michalopoulos, the artist-curators of Schwartz Gallery. The exhibition opens on 17 July and I'm excited to see how the show will look installed in the gallery.

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June 2013

House #3 (c) Mandy Williams + displayed in the RA Summer Exhibition

As an exhibitor in this year's Royal Academy's Summer exhibition I've had the opportunity to view the show a couple of times in the past week. The highlights for me have been the Photography room, room VIII (showing work that includes Chuck Close and Rodney Graham), and the room dedicated to Grayson Perry's new tapestries.  On my second visit many of the individual works I had liked on Varnishing Day had already sold and the room showing editioned prints had sold particularly well. There are 4 private views before the show opens to the public on 10 June which is a great opportunity to take friends around for free and look at the exhibition in more detail.

Two views of the Photography room

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May 2013

From 'Dream House' (c) Mandy Williams 2013

A lot of different things have been happening in May. My video, Inside, (2010) was screened at the inaugural Art Lacuna Film Festival in London and then earlier this week I was very happy to find out that Dream House (2013) had been selected for the Athens Video Art Festival in the category 'video art'.  The festival, which has been running since 2005 and always looks really interesting, takes place in June - I'll write more about this next month.

I've also had a photograph accepted into the Royal Academy Summer exhibition. This is the first time despite being short-listed twice before, so very pleased to make it through. The show opens on 10 June, but there's a few private views before then, so will write an update once I've seen the exhibition.

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April 2013

Waiting for You #3, 2013 (c) Mandy Williams

Waiting for You, finished at House Gallery on 19 March.  It was a really enjoyable experience and a great incentive to develop new work - many of the photographs were from 2012/13. The video, Dream House, which was created for the exhibition, can be seen here.  The exhibition was reviewed as 'stunning and haunting'.  You can read the review by clicking the link.

My video, Inside, which was also on display at House Gallery, is going to be shown in Moscow this week as part of a curated video, photography and performance exhibition, Discovering Borderlands.  The Moscow Art Project artist-curators have organised several exhibitions and I'm pleased to have been selected for this one, along with 18 other international artists.

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March 2013

Waiting for You opened at House Gallery, London on 6 March and runs until Tuesday 19 March. It features photography and video from 2009-13 and explores home as a place of aspiration and desire in the 21st century. The exhibition includes a new video, Dream House, which interweaves fantasy and reality as children visualise their ideal adult home and a new mixed media piece, Setting, where a collection of seemingly idyllic homes mark scenes of financially motivated domestic crimes.

The exhibition was previewed in Living South (pictured) and London Calling.

I especially like this comment that was left anonymously in the gallery book

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February 2013

Before #1, 2012 and still from Dream House, digital video, 2013

In early March I’ll be opening a solo exhibition of photography and video in London. Waiting for you will be at House Gallery from 6 - 19 March. It features work from 2009 – 2013 and explores home as a place of aspiration and desire in the 21st century. If you’re in London at that time I hope you will come and see it.

At the end of January I took part in Postcards from the Edge, the annual benefit organised by Visual Aids. This year it happened at the Sikkema Gallery, New York.  I also contributed work to Drugstore Beetle (Sitodrepa Paniceum) II, a David Horvitz project, at California State University, Long Beach Special Collections Library - Jan 28 - April 14 2013.

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December 2012

Unseen Landscape #1 (c) Mandy Williams 2012

In the autumn I took part in Photomonth once again, and this year it included being part of a special screening at Rich Mix in November as part of Photomonth’s Radical London. Riverbed Stories, the series of work that was shown, was produced especially for Photomonth.

I was pleased to have two photographs included in fLIP magazine's 'Routes' issue, which came out in mid November.  The images were from the Unseen Landscapes series and it was the first time they had been published. Work has also found its way into various tumblrs. One called not shaking the grass at http://likeafieldmouse.tumblr.com/archive featured Lost Voices, which was then re-blogged on many other sites.

The last couple of months I've been busy editing the video I started shooting in August. It will be included in an exhibition that I'll be having in London next Spring. More details to follow.

September 2012

Since July I've had three photographs included in From the Shadows, a curated group exhibition at Stour Space, Hackney Wick, a wonderful venue close to the Olympics site. The exhibition runs through to the end of September.

At the end of this month my video, Inside, will be included in the inaugural exhibition at Porthole Space in Deptford. It's a new apartment exhibition venue run by artist/curator/tenant Sarah Jacobs. 17 artists are involved with the first show, Precious.

During October and November I'll once again be contributing to Photomonth. The work is from a new series called Riverbed Stories that was shot around Erith in South East London. The images will be screened at Rich Mix in November as part of Photomonth's Radical London.

I'm also working on a new video that I plan to show next Spring. This is exciting for me as it's the first major video project since completing Inside.

Lastly, a reminder about my new Photography page, which is regularly updated with images and news about exhibitions. I hope you will take a look and please ‘like’ if you want to be kept informed about shows and other events.

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June 2012

A quick update to post information about my new Photography page. This will be regularly updated with images and news about exhibitions and print sales. I hope you will take a look and please 'like' if you want to be kept informed about shows and other events.

May 2012

Have spent the last couple of months shooting and editing a lot of new material. There are several photography and video projects in production and I hope I'll have an opportunity to show some of them later in the year. It's been great having the extra time to experiment with ideas and develop new themes - and interesting to see how these new themes have become catalysts for some very different projects.

Some of my photographs from the Before series, 2012, were recently featured on Landscape Stories.  I really like this photography site that is based in Italy. They are generous with their exposure of photographers and the selected work is frequently different and evocative.

I was really pleased that my short film, Inside, was recently selected for the Gaze film season opening programme at Artists' Television Access, San Francisco.  ATA is an artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and film and its Gaze film series is dedicated to screening independent film and video made by women. The seven selected films for the opening programme all address the subject of 'home' from 'the experimental unearthing and reassembly of family history to the voyeuristic gaze into the bedroom windows of strangers to the dreamlike Turkish beach resorts that offer a "home away from home".  It's a diverse and interesting examination of home - if you're in San Francisco it takes place on 17 May.

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Feb 2012

Before (C) Mandy Williams 2012

At the beginning of January I took part in a large benefit for Visual Aids in New York. Called Postcards from the Edge, it's an annual event which attracts a lot of artists and buyers. It took place at Cheim & Read this year, and raised over $82,200 making it the most successful Postcards benefit ever.  I was delighted that my contribution, Totem, was sold and only wish I could have been there myself to have seen the work, which included images from William Wegman, Yoko Ono and John Baldessari.

One of my aims for this year is to focus on creating new work. I've been shooting with a specific theme in mind, though this will develop more fully over the next few months. As a side project I documented a local housing estate at the start of the year, photographing the windows of the abandoned flats as the site awaits demolition.  I've initially set some of those images to a soundtrack and uploaded it to vimeo, but will revisit the idea later as the main project advances.

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Dec 2011

Immerse 2011 (c) Mandy Williams

A quick post before the year slips away. 2011 has been memorable and I feel lucky to have been involved with some excellent exhibitions this year at MASS MoCA, RWA, Bristol, and at Raven Row and Bearspace Gallery in London. The Bearspace show, Print & Design Now! has just finished this weekend.  I went to the private view in Deptford back in November and there was a lot of interesting work on display.

Over the last couple of months I have been trying to see more exhibitions in London. There have been some inspiring shows and I have come away with a desire to spend 2012 creating a lot of new work. Ideas have been building up throughout the year and it’s time to explore where they might lead. I’ve been experimenting with sound, video, photography and text.

For this year’s Photomonth, I re-visited the place where I had grown up, photographing the landscape in a visceral way to evoke emotion and memory. As part of the project, I wanted to add a short video. Finally complete, it’s now on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/artphotofilm/immerse

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Sept/Oct 2011

A quick update leading into October. My feature in Printmaking Today magazine (Autumn 2011) is out now - it was part of my award from the RWA show in February this year. It's a great magazine, full of information about printing techniques and current exhibitions, along with generous profiles on contemporary artists. It's not available online, so I've scanned part of it here. Check it out if you see it in the bookstore!

(c) Printmaking Today, Autumn 2011

Also this week I found out that my photograph, Totem, is a winning image in the Artslant 5th 2011 Showcase. Last year House #6 also won in this category.

Have spent much of September finishing off a project for Photomonth 2011.  Immerse is now live on the web and tries to capture the sea where I grew up in a visceral way that evokes emotion and memory. It was a surprisingly difficult project but hopefully I've succeeded in my intentions. Ideally, I'd like to add video as well.

(c) Mandy Williams 2011

At the start of November, ASC are holding open studios again and I'll be taking part - it's the same weekend that Print & Design Now 2011 opens at Bearspace Gallery.

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September 2011

Summer is definitely over but it's been one to remember. To begin with, it was such a pleasure taking part in the Resonance Open at Raven Row. The exhibition lasted for six weeks and received good reviews. One of my exhibits, Lost Voices, was referred to as 'a techno-echinoderm hybrid from some nightmarish Lovecraftian rock pool' on the Sparks in Electrical Jelly blog review - a truly imaginative description. Totem (c) Mandy Williams 2010

Before the show ended I was notified that I was a PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Official Selection 2011 for my submission, House #6, and also had a work, Totem,  chosen for Print & Design Now 2011, a touring exhibition presented by Bearspace Gallery, selected by Julia Alvarez, Owen Ward (SW1 gallery) and Mary Alice Stack (Own Art).  Although I had shown Totem at House Gallery in early 2010, this version is quite different.

  Private view at SW1 Gallery

The show opened in late July at SW1 Gallery with a busy private view - it was a chance to see some wonderful work from a large number of artists. It's a touring exhibition, and will be on view in Deptford at Bearspace in November before going on to other venues.
There'll be other news in late September/early October so will post again soon.

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June 2011

I recently had some of my photography from 'Re-Collect' featured in Slightly Lucid, a lovely blog from Montreal, written by photographer Aislinn Leggett. The blog is always highlighting work I find interesting, so it was great to be included. The images are from 2009 and 2010; the series is ongoing.http://www.slightlylucid.com/mandy-williams-re-collect/

Friday (c) Mandy Williams 2010

I was also very happy to have two pieces of work selected for Resonance Open, a sound art exhibition curated by Ed Baxter, Director of Resonance104.4fm. The Open features contemporary sound art from local and interational artists and is part of a larger exhibition, called Gone with the Wind, which highlights seminal sound art pioneers Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi and Walter Marchetti. The exhibition is running at Raven Row, one of my favourite London galleries. It's a non-profit exhibition space spreading across 4 floors of two conjoined Georgian houses in Spitalfields.  I recently saw Hilary Lloyd's exhibition there which looked wonderful in that space and there is a continued focus on showing experimental and improvisatory work.  The two pieces I am showing are The Space Between, a lightbox with sound featuring words from Kobe Abe's Face of Another (2001) and Lost Voices, a sound work made of blow-torched mobile phones (2010).  This last piece was exhibited at House Gallery in 2010 but I have recently re-mixed the sound. The show runs from 9 June to 17 July 2011.

The Space Between (c) Mandy Williams 2001 and Lost Voices installed at Raven Row (c) Mandy Williams 2011

A short video of the Resonance Open can be seen here: http://vimeo.com/2562368125623681
I shall also be participating in the Parallax Art Fair, La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London from 1 - 3 July 2011.

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Recent

It has been a busy start to 2011. I'm currently showing work in two group exhibitions including 'An Exchange with Sol Lewitt', a two-part exhibition organised by Cabinet magazine in collaboration with MASS MoCA, curated by Regine Basha.  My photographic piece, 'Conversations' is part of the large group show on view at MASS MoCA.
Conversations (c) Mandy Williams

I also have two photographs, 'Parade' and 'House #6', in 'Open Photography 2011' a juried exhibition, showing at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol. It was great to visit Bristol and attend the opening and I was excited to discover that 'House #6' had won the Printmaking Today magazine award for best original print. A feature in the magazine will follow. June 17 from 'Inside' (c) Mandy Williams 2010 My small video, 'Inside', that I finished at the end of last year has also been screened - recently in London at an International Women's Day celebration with a selection of short films and improvised music and later this month at Lightworks 2011 where it was selected as part of a festival of film, sound, installation and new media. Unfortunately I won't be able to attend Lightworks but I did go to the London screening and was pleased to have been a part of the celebratory event.

The last couple of months I've also been developing ideas for some new work which will include photography and text and am looking forward to immersing myself in this project next month.

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Nearly 2011 - wonder what the year ahead will bring?  2010 has been a really good year in many ways - some great exhibition experiences including Art Projects at the London Art Fair in January, two group shows at the Museum of New Art Detroit (the 'Saatchi 10' and the hugely popular 'Facebook show'), plus several really enjoyable group shows in London. The last two group exhibitions - at Strand Gallery and Viewfinder - were both photography shows but looking back on 2010 one of the most exciting things for me has been working in different media and completing two very different pieces of work. 'Lost Voices', shown at House Gallery in March, was a mixed-media sound work, and more recently I've just finished the short video, 'Inside', which I began over the summer. The video can be seen on vimeo at http://vimeo.com/artphotofilm. It's experimental and true to my original intentions. It's inspired by Bachelard's 'Poetics of Space' and the lit house as a beacon, hut, and refuge, and Derek Jarmans' video 'Journey to Avebury' where his use of static camera shots and uncompromising editing highlights the mystical and ritual elements of place. The opening and closing frames were filmed at Dungeness, one of my favourite places. Still from 'Inside' (C) Mandy Williams 2010 Earlier this month, I had some work of mine represented at the Aqua Art Fair in Miami, as part of the Golden Frame Awards. The end of this month is going to be spent in the studio - uninterrupted time to experiment and shape new work.

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Live

(c) Mandy Williams

A quick update as my photography book is now published.  It's called Inside and you can see a 15 page preview of it at: http://www.blurb.com/books/1630424
The photographs focus on the home and represent different bodies of work produced and exhibited between 1998 and 2010.  It includes images which will be shown at the 'Home' exhibition opening this week at the Viewfinder Gallery.

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