Gerard Williams

Born 1959, Manchester, United Kingdom, lives and works in London, United Kingdom

The work of Gerard Williams leads his audience to re-examine individual and collective culturally founded preconceptions. He aims to afford unusual vantage points in perceptual terms upon his chosen subjects. His work has made use of a great diversity of starting points, such as outlines taken from floor plans and maps; It has reacted, for example, to the demographics of place via cold hard CIA statistics on GDP; It might be that he begins work with a 600 year old wooden 'linen-fold' panel, or that he chooses to dress a series of ordinary windows in a regional town centre, as if they are inhabited. The starting points are varied but are very much part of the world as it already exists. Art critic Sally O'Reilly in discussion with Gerard Williams: 'You might say that you are interested in translating from one format or material into an object or image that is illogical - a mapping from sense to nonsense. What this invariably does, however, is not demonstrate the absurdity of your work, but often the absurdity of the original information.' (Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, issue3, No3, fall 2005, pp274-290).