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Charles Williams: “Louise Bourgeois And Me” And Other Stories

Senior Lecturer Charles Williams has an exhibition opening in London EC2.

“Louise Bourgeois And Me” And Other Stories

A solo exhibition of paintings and narrative by Charles Williams NEAC RWS.

Studio 1.1

57A Redchurch Street
London
EC2 7DJ

4th-27th November 2016 (Gallery open Thursday–Sunday 12–6pm or by appointment)

For more information contact info@studio1-1.co.uk

Artist Statement

Charles Williams’ work is very like short stories. He tries to cram everything he is thinking about, other paintings old and new, newspaper stories, what he saw on his holidays or when he last went to the shops into each painting. Sometimes characters and places evolve; sometimes they just appear and then disappear. The chief studio rule is no sketches, no photos, no studies, nothing. People seem to assume that the paintings come from somewhere, but they are simply a la tête. He cannot be bothered with stopping and fiddling around with those things, or doing that projecting thing.

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Born in Evanston, Illinois, USA, Charles Williams was educated at Kent College in Canterbury, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy, London. He was elected to the New English Art Club (NEAC) in 1996 and in 1999 was a founder member of the Stuckist group. He has shown his work in London, the UK and abroad, including a solo exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California. He is the author of Basic Drawing (Robert Hale, 2011) and Basic Watercolour (Robert Hale, 2014).

Two Painters and a Potter, Linden Hall Studio, Deal

Senior Lecturer Charles Williams has a joint exhibition opening in Deal.

Linden Hall Studio presents the work of Arthur Neal, William Plumptre and Charles Williams, three artists whose careers have spanned the late twentieth century and early twenty-first and whose work contains many of the concerns, obsessions and interests of this particular time in British culture. Reflections on Modernism and Post-modernism, on the breaking down of ideas about authenticity and a search for some kind of truth or beauty in the mass of contradictions that characterizes our time are contained in these works. In the end it is only in the constant practice of making and remaking that brings what resolution is possible.

4 September 2016-2 October 2016

Linden Hall Studio
Contemporary Art Gallery
32 St George’s Road
Deal
Kent
CT14 6BA

Born in Evanston, Illinois, USA, Charles Williams was educated at Kent College in Canterbury, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy, London. He was elected to the New English Art Club (NEAC) in 1996 and in 1999 was a founder member of the Stuckist group. He has shown his work in London, the UK and abroad, including a solo exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California. He is the author of Basic Drawing (Robert Hale, 2011) and Basic Watercolour (Robert Hale, 2014).

Research Seminar: 10 February 2016 Charles Williams

Canterbury Christ Church University
School of Media Art and Design
Research Seminars 2015-2016

10 February 2016
4.15pm-5.30pm

Improvisation, Form and Narrative
Speaker: Charles Williams, CCCU

Charles Williams, Senior Lecturer for Painting in the Fine and Applied Art programme, is putting together a PhD (PAR) proposal, looking at his studio practice and theoretical background. The areas he is looking at specifically are Observational Drawing in his training background and its role in determining the realisation of form in his work, the role of improvisation in the studio process, and the layering of narratives in the work. Charles will present a slide show of the work and supporting imagery and would welcome suggestions and comments on these elements.

Born in Evanston, Illinois, USA, Charles Williams was educated at Kent College in Canterbury, Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy, London. He was elected to the New English Art Club (NEAC) in 1996 and in 1999 was a founder member of the Stuckist group. He has shown his work in London, the UK and abroad, including a solo exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California. He is the author of Basic Drawing (Robert Hale, 2011) and Basic Watercolour (Robert Hale, 2014).

Powell Building – Pf06
North Holmes Road Campus, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 3QU
Email Dr Andrew Butler – Andrew.Butler@canterbury.ac.uk – for further details

— All welcome —