Simon Williams

“What matters is not what you look at, but how you look at it.”

I would say my art is a process-led approach, based on concepts of my personal history incorporating site-specific elements. Through my own emotional experience, I would like to draw people’s attention to the world that surrounds us.

I want them to experience a new way of seeing and I attempt to shift peoples’ visual hierarchy by valorising textures and objects normally discarded or overlooked. Objects around us are powerful, full of history and memories; I truly think material has meaning. These resonances of emotion and concept within the material are subject to people personal interpretation but are undeniably present: I push viewers to reappraise what they consider common views.

Also, I would like to call out the beauty of passing time and life experience to people’s mind. I am fascinated with the aesthetics of the process of time and mutability, and the effect that time has had on the material. I enjoy the idea of capturing marks of time and of inviting people to look at them, life history and the environment in an alternative way.

Finally, I use my art to share my feelings, to comment on the art market and its logics, on what it means to be an artist in the commercial art world: what does it mean to make art that, by necessity, must be sold and therefore judged by the buyer, and how this can impact the artist’s emotion and practice.

09/1980 – 06/1981: Worthing Art College
Foundation Course

09/1981 – 06/1984: Liverpool University
BA of Architecture

01/01/2017 - 31/01/2017: The Last Supper January Exhibition – The Last Supper Gallery

24/11/2016: King of Camden Awards – Camden Town Unlimited

01/10/2016 - 31/10/2016: The Last Supper October Exhibition – The Last Supper Gallery

30/09/16 to 03/10/16: MEWS2: JAKBOX exhibition – JAKBOX Studio

02/07/16 to 04/07/16: MEWS1: JAKBOX exhibition – JAKBOX Studio

21/04/2016 - 06/05/2016: JAKBOX Presents – JAKBOX Studio

01/08/93 – 13/08/93: Exhibition of theatre poster by Simon Williams – Soho Poly Theatre

1985: Car performance:
As the opening sequence of the performance, Simon Williams and his friends Steve and Joel Cockerill, cut a car into portable pieces, the pieces would then be used as instruments, on which music/sounds would be played, before the pieces were made into a piece of sculpture by Jonathan Froud.

1983 – 1990 : Pavement Painting

-- ART FAIR

03/04/05 Nov 2016: The other art fair London – Truman Brewery

22/23/24 July 2016: The other art fair Bristol – Arnolfini

3/4/5 June 2016: The Untitled Artists Fair - Chelsea Old Town Hall

Marcel Duchamps, Andy Warhol, Picasso, Antony Gormley, David Hockney, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Edward Hopper, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, Boyle Family, Richard Long, Damien Hirst ...

concecptual art, texture, surface, time, aesthetic, urban