Bedwyr Williams

Last updated

Bedwyr Williams (born 1974 in St. Asaph) is a Welsh artist. He works across varied media including drawing, painting, writing and video.. [1]

Contents

Biography

He studied at St Martins School of Art and Ateliers, Arnhem. [2]

In 2004, he won a Paul Hamlyn Award for the Visual Arts [3] and in 2005 he was Welsh artist-in-residence at the Venice Biennale. [4]

He was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures prize in 2006. [5] His work Walk a Mile in My Shoes was a rack of 41 pairs of size 13 shoes. [6]

In 2011, Williams won the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod of Wales for his mixed media sculptures and artworks, including carved wellington boots filled with straw. [7]

His 2011, Lionheart & Lightsout brass sculpture was installed in Swansea Kingsway by Locws international’s Art Across the City event. [8] The sculpture commemorates two Swansea cage fighter dressed in drag on a night out, who were assaulted. The subsequent fight was documented on CCTV and became an internet hit in 2009. [9]

For 2012 Frieze Art Fair, London, Williams presented CuratorCadaver Cake as part of Frieze Projects, in association with Grizedale Arts. In a live performance the artists conducted a live autopsy on a life-sized curator made from cake, complete with edible internal organs.

In 2013, Bedwyr Williams represented Wales in Venice as an official Collateral Event at the 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. [10] The Starry Messenger was presented at the Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Venice and explored the relationships between stargazing and the home, the cosmos, and the role of the amateur in a professional world. The project was jointly curated by MOSTYN and Oriel Davies and supported by the Arts Council of Wales.

Bedwyr recently announced himself as being in favour of Welsh independence. [11]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Venice Biennale</span> International arts exhibition

The Venice Biennale is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of its kind. The main exhibition held in Castello, in the halls of the Arsenale and Biennale Gardens, alternates between art and architecture. The other events hosted by the Foundation—spanning theatre, music, and dance—are held annually in various parts of Venice, whereas the Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido.

The year 2003 in art involves various significant events.

The Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia. It is a large and well-attended contemporary visual arts event in the country. Alongside the Venice and São Paulo biennales and Documenta, it is one of the longest running exhibitions of its kind and was the first biennale to be established in the Asia-Pacific region.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kiki Smith</span> German-born American artist

Kiki Smith is a German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, feminism, and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works in the Lower East Side, New York City, and the Hudson Valley, New York State.

Michael Nelson is a contemporary British installation artist. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Nelson has twice been nominated for the Turner Prize: first in 2001, and again in 2007.

Christian Jankowski is a contemporary multimedia artist who largely works with video, installation and photography. He lives and works in Berlin and New York.

Grizedale Arts is a contemporary arts residency and commissioning agency sited in Grizedale Forest in the central Lake District in rural Northern England. It conducts cultural projects locally, nationally and internationally from its bases at Lawson Park farm and the Coniston Institute. Its focus is on developing emerging artists and producing experimental yet accessible projects that demonstrate the purpose and function of art as an everyday aspect of a worthwhile and productive life. The organisation is financially supported by Arts Council England. Adam Sutherland, the director, guest-curated 'The Land We Live In, The Land We Left Behind' for Hauser & Wirth Somerset in 2018, a major historic and contemporary survey of rural cultures that attracted over 40,000 visitors to the galleries in Bruton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Storr (art academic)</span>

Robert Storr is an American curator, critic, painter, and writer.

Cerith Wyn Evans is a Welsh conceptual artist, sculptor and film-maker. In 2018 he won the £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.

Enrico David is an artist based in London. He works in painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, at times employing traditional craft techniques. In the 1990s he garnered acclaim for creating monumental embroidered portraits using sewn canvases, which often began as drawings and collages from fashion magazines. During the past several years David focused on sculpture in a variety of media and returned to more traditional methods of painting. His recent works include large-scale portraits of deeply psychological meaning. Drawing continues to be an important element of his practice.

This article is about the particular significance of the year 2008 to Wales and its people.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franz West</span>

Franz West was an Austrian artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Welsh art</span>

Welsh art is the traditions in the visual arts associated with Wales and its people. Most art found in, or connected with, Wales is essentially a regional variant of the forms and styles of the rest of the British Isles, a very different situation from that of Welsh literature. The term Art in Wales is often used in the absence of a clear sense of what "Welsh art" is, and to include the very large body of work, especially in landscape art, produced by non-Welsh artists in Wales since the later 18th century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Osi Rhys Osmond</span>

Osi Rhys Osmond was a Welsh painter and an occasional television and radio presenter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gold Medal (National Eisteddfod of Wales)</span>

The Gold Medal of the National Eisteddfod of Wales is awarded annually in three categories for excellence in Fine Art, Architecture, or Craft and Design.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angolan pavilion</span> Venice Biennale national pavilion

The Angolan pavilion, representing the nation of Angola, has participated in the Venice Biennale since 2013. As one of the biennial international art exhibition's national pavilions, Angola mounts a show in a Venetian palazzo outside Venice's Giardini. The first Angolan pavilion, which featured the photography of Edson Chagas, became the first African national pavilion to receive the biennial's top prize, the Golden Lion for best national pavilion. Chagas displayed poster-sized photographs of resituated, abandoned objects and weathered architecture in the Angolan capital of Luanda. Reviewers praised the interplay between the photographed subject matter and the Italian Renaissance artwork that adorned the hosting palazzo's walls. The 2015 Biennale hosted a group show of five Angolan artists on themes of intergenerational dialogue.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">British pavilion</span>

The British pavilion houses Great Britain's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National pavilions at the Venice Biennale</span> National representation at the Venice Biennale

The national pavilions host each participant nation's official representation during the Venice Biennale, an international art biennial exhibition held in Venice, Italy. Some countries own pavilion buildings in the Giardini della Biennale while others rent buildings throughout the city, but each country controls its own selection process and production costs.

Heather and Ivan Morison are a Welsh artist duo known for their conceptual and performative public artworks.

References

  1. ↑ Kim Dhillon, Bedwyr Williams Archived 2008-02-18 at the Wayback Machine , Frieze, April 2006.
  2. ↑ "walesvenicebiennale.org". Archived from the original on 21 October 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
  3. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk, Thursday, 14 October, 2004, accessed April 7, 2008
  4. ↑ Adrian Searle, Picture perfect Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine , The Guardian, Nov 30, 2004.
  5. ↑ arts.guardian.co.uk Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine , accessed April 7, 2008
  6. ↑ Oliver Duff, Beck's pushes boundaries with 'Bums Breakfast' and smelly shoes Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine , The Independent, March 29, 2006.
  7. ↑ "Bedwyr’s tribute to the farmer wins the Gold Medal for Art at the Eisteddfod" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine , Wales Online, 1 August 2011, accessed 20 January 2011.
  8. ↑ http://www.locwsinternational.com/?portfolio=bedwyr-williams&langswitch_lang=en Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine , 20 March 2011, accessed 7 March 2016
  9. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8296190.stm Archived 2017-08-29 at the Wayback Machine , 8 October 2009, accessed 7 March 2016
  10. ↑ "2013 Bedwyr Williams (Wales) | British Council". venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  11. ↑ "Bedwyr Williams on Instagram: "@yescymru"".
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.