Emma Williams
MA Painting, Royal College of Art
Emma Williams’ work continues to be a morphing of real locations, with the constructed and imagined worlds. Combining traditions of landscape painting and cartography, new and contorted views emerge where the viewer is simultaneously above and within.
“Living and working in a big city, the... More»
“Living and working in a big city, the... More»
Emma Williams’ work continues to be a morphing of real locations, with the constructed and imagined worlds. Combining traditions of landscape painting and cartography, new and contorted views emerge where the viewer is simultaneously above and within.
“Living and working in a big city, the maps I use to navigate around this multi-faceted place become an integral part of my urban living. While the work signifies my experience and understanding of a place through their references to maps, the mapping element is distorted to create a sense of place that is now strange and unfamiliar.”
It is with this fascination of the complexity and resonance of a place, combined with the sense of the physicality of both viewing a landscape and the landscape being part of ones self that continues to inform Emma’s current practice and leads her to question the relationship between herself as a painter and her location.
Exhibitions
2009 Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London
2009 Summer Exhibition, The Architect's Gallery, Teddington
2008 Unnatural Worlds, Casson Gallery, Eastbourne.
An exhibition of works on paper
2007 Salon 07, Seven Seven Contemporary, London
2007 Mapping, Bury Art Gallery, Museums and Archive
2006 ArtSway Open, Sway, Hampshire
2006 24London, Touring exhibition
24artists, 24hours,3cities Berlin, Milan, Barcelona
2006 Sefton Open, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
2005 '30x30' Group Show, Vertigo Gallery, London
2003 well-made 3, Old Town Hall, Stratford, London
2003 The map is not the territory III, James Hockney Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
2002 The map is not the territory II, England and Co, London
2002 Art2002 London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
2001 Sefton Open, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
2001 Summer in the City, Online exhibition, Artlink at Sotheby’s
2001 One Week Wonders:Slap and Tickle, Vertigo Gallery, London
“Living and working in a big city, the maps I use to navigate around this multi-faceted place become an integral part of my urban living. While the work signifies my experience and understanding of a place through their references to maps, the mapping element is distorted to create a sense of place that is now strange and unfamiliar.”
It is with this fascination of the complexity and resonance of a place, combined with the sense of the physicality of both viewing a landscape and the landscape being part of ones self that continues to inform Emma’s current practice and leads her to question the relationship between herself as a painter and her location.
Exhibitions
2009 Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London
2009 Summer Exhibition, The Architect's Gallery, Teddington
2008 Unnatural Worlds, Casson Gallery, Eastbourne.
An exhibition of works on paper
2007 Salon 07, Seven Seven Contemporary, London
2007 Mapping, Bury Art Gallery, Museums and Archive
2006 ArtSway Open, Sway, Hampshire
2006 24London, Touring exhibition
24artists, 24hours,3cities Berlin, Milan, Barcelona
2006 Sefton Open, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
2005 '30x30' Group Show, Vertigo Gallery, London
2003 well-made 3, Old Town Hall, Stratford, London
2003 The map is not the territory III, James Hockney Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
2002 The map is not the territory II, England and Co, London
2002 Art2002 London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
2001 Sefton Open, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
2001 Summer in the City, Online exhibition, Artlink at Sotheby’s
2001 One Week Wonders:Slap and Tickle, Vertigo Gallery, London
Artwork sold by Emma Williams
Great West Road
Elephant and Castle
Marylebone Flyover
Highbury Corner
Robin Hood Roundabout
Untitled Red Drawing No.3
Blooming London Series - Deep Red