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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).

City of the Imagination

You still have time to catch Bryan Hawkins, Eddie McMillan and Pete Wallace’s installation in Canterbury Cathedral.

City of the Imagination
Venue: Cathedral Chapter House, Cathedral Precincts, Canterbury
Opening Times: 10am–5pm (15th-22nd October 2016, closed Sunday 16 October)

William Blake declared “every age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage”.

City of the Imagination links ancient forms of light and sound to 21st century technology within the magnificent architecture of the Chapter House and celebrates Canterbury Cathedral as at the heart of an ‘imagined’, spiritual, artistic and inspirational city. The installation will reflect the contemplative power and grandeur of the Chapter House alongside Canterbury’s imaginal, traditional and contemporary stories.

Curated and created by Bryan Hawkins, Eddie McMillan and Pete Wallace, School of Media Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University.

http://www.canterbury.co.uk/Canterbury-City-Of-The-Imagination/details/?dms=3&feature=1301&venue=3030160

 

Research Seminar: 9 March 2016 – Dr Jonathan Cable, Protest Campaigns, Media and Political Opportunities

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

9 March 2016
4.15pm-5.30pm

Protest Campaigns, Media and Political Opportunities:
An examination of the creation and exploitation of media and political opportunities by protest groups
Speaker: Dr Jonathan Cable, University of Cardiff

This paper is concerned with the interactions between protest groups, their political targets and the mainstream media. Paying particular attention to the tactical repertoires and media strategies protest groups, and how their messages are transmitted through protest action and into mainstream media coverage and political debates. Using three protest groups as the core case studies, this paper covers a range of different protest tactics and issues from the conventional to the confrontational. They take the form of a local community campaign to save a pub, Plane Stupid’s actions against airport expansion, and the mass protests by G20Meltdown against the G20 in London in 2009.

This paper argues that relative success and failure of protest action in achieving a group’s goals lies in the extent to which issues and the reasons behind protest are explained in the mainstream media, and the positioning of an issue on the political agenda. Further, protest action is situated within a wider context of mainstream media and political opportunities. The more a group can create and exploit these opportunities the greater their ability to propagate their message as far as possible and achieve their goals.

Dr Jonathan Cable is a Research Associate on the ESRC funded project “Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks” and the Pathways to Progression Coordinator for Our Media, Our World between Continuing & Professional Education and JOMEC.

Powell Building – Pf06
North Holmes Road Campus
Email Dr Andrew Butler – Andrew.Butler@canterbury.ac.uk – for further details
— All welcome —

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 —

Glitch 2015

Powell Building, North Holmes Road Campus, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU, UK.

On Monday 14th December the Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts will be hosting a one-day interdisciplinary conference entitled Glitch 2015 – the politics of failure, error, disorder and noise.