Jude Williams
Unfortunately we have to cancel Jude’s Artist Talk and close the exhibition on the 26 March due to the lockdown for COVID-19
Opens Wed 11 March
Runs 12 – 29 March, 2020
Jude will give an Artist Talk on Sunday 29 March / 3pm
Part of Art Month Sydney 2020 / RSVP here
‘Suburban Embodiment’ are paintings based on disused and/or decaying urban street posters. When encountering these posters a dialogue transpires in the transitional space between self and object. What is concealed and revealed under the layering of posters, and also in the spaces we both occupy? The theories of Canadian philosopher, John Russon are explored. He says ‘although this is personal, simultaneously a type of detachment occurs as we are never simply immersed in our reality. That we notice our immersion, like we are hovering above our involvement, and as a result, ambiguous multiple meanings are revealed’.
Artist Statement
The practices of ‘home’ and the everyday are close to the artist at a personal level and beyond. They continue to be a source of complex and blurred significance, changing our awareness and inspiration as we continue to unpack ‘home’ and everyday life’s significance. Referencing ‘home’ and the everyday produces an intimate and compelling sense of self, others, including others before as home and the everyday are places permeated with human presence, both current and past. The free imagination of my practice enables ‘home’ and the everyday to be explored and illuminated as timeless images, not only seen but lived. The meaning of ‘home’ and the everyday is fluid and this fluidity includes the personal and emotional responses of the imagination and their context in nature visualising not only the subject but the artist’s ideas and history. Through the interactive processes with the artist, the objects confinement is ruptured and the mystery revealed, creating transformation and change. This is what my practice is about. It speaks to ‘home’ and the everyday through ideas of colour, various surfaces, image, perception, technology and genres of painting, both past and present.
CV
2018-Bachelor Visual Art, Honours ( Syd Uni)
2015-2017 Bachelor Visual Art (Syd Uni)
1990-2015 Visual Artist and Teacher
Exhibitions
2019 ‘Urban Edge Exhibition’, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney
2019 ‘Ambiguity of Spaces Between’, with Karen Benton, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2018 ‘Retrospective’, Shop Gallery, Glebe
2018 ‘Home and The Everyday’, Visual Art Honours Exhibition, SCA Gallery
2017 ‘Home’, DedSpace, Sydney College of The Arts
2017 ‘Inbetween’ with Karen Benton, ShortSpace, SCA
2016 ‘Gestures’, DedSpace, Sydney College of The Arts
2016 Street Installation, Sydney College of The Arts wall
2015 Group Exhibition, Seaview Gallery, Dulwich Hill
2014 Group Exhibition, Seaview Gallery, Dulwich Hill
