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Candida Powell-Williams creates installations which play with the relationship between the sculpture, live performance, technology. These sculptural landscapes are a response to researching the slippage that occurs between primary and secondary source material in relation to historical artefacts and often plays with the contested meaning of symbols. She finds patterns of references and chains of coincidences, condensing them into a singular experience. Her research is guided by philosophical questions about human kinds attempts to navigate ourselves within the purposeless and chaotic universe through the connection between the mundane materiality of objects, action and belief. .Using a range of materials and textures Powell-Williams references digital pixilated landscapes and renders them physical in modular, emblematic forms or prop-like sculptures akin to drawing and characterised by their wobbly geometry, apparently dissolving edges and the intimacy of the handmade. Often fabricated in sweet gradients of pinks, purples, yellows and greens the colours and surfaces coalesce to appear like disneyfied relics or ruins suggestive of the future. Sculptures come together in whimsical theatrical staging’s animated with fleeting performances which are documented in stuttering animations overlaid with drawing. By referring to our identity as subjects straddling physical and digital culture she confronts how our online experience is changing sculptural discourse and our relationship to memory.
B.1984. Lives and works in London
Selected Exhibitions and performances:
Sonic Arrangements in the Infinite Fill, performance, Derry August 2019
Command Lines, solo show, Void Gallery Northern Ireland June- August 2019
Mother Art Prize, group show, Mimosa House, May 2019
Lessness, still quorum, performance, Saturday Live @ Serpentine Galleries, Sept 2018
new work, 2 person show with Thomas Yeomans, Exposed Arts Projects, November 2018
Lotus, group show, Bosse and Baum Gallery, October 2017
Boredom and its acid touch, performance, Frieze Live, London Oct 2017
Tongue Town, group show, Museum of Modern Art Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2017
The Vernacular History of the Golden Rhubarb, solo exhibition, Bosse and Baum, January 2017
Cue Collision, group show, House of Egorn, London, Sept 2016
Lampy The Barefooted Father, performance, Lupercalia Live, Bosse & Baum, London 2016
PIC Festival, Performance, Melbourne Australia, Nov 2016
Dingbat, Art Language Location Festival Cambridge, 2015
Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator, residency & solo exhibition,The Gate Theatre, Notting Hill Jan 2015
Icons, performance BIFAMI @ Phillips, London Nov 2014
Frances Bacon Opera, Set Design, National Portrait Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, James Joyce Centre 2011-14
Glissando, solo exhibition, Bosse & Baum, London, Oct 2014
Coade’s Elixir- an occupation, solo exhibition, Concrete Cafe, Hayward Gallery, April 2014
Hot Stones, Wet Areas, Fast Melons, group show, Vienna, Dec 2013
DentalFlux event, curated and performed, Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, Dec 2013
Muster Point, ASC Gallery, London, Jan 2013
Please be Quiet, BSR ROME, June 2013
Tourist information Point, Supercollider, Blackpool, 2013
Sleight, Lewisham Arthouse, Residency & Solo Exhibition,London, August 2012
Glissando, Salisbury Arts Centre, July 2012
Chain, Curator, Lewisham Arthouse, May 2012
I’ll be your Mirror, group show, Supercollider Blackpool, 2011
The Absurd Hero, group show, Hatch Gallery London, 2011
Awards & Residencies:
Mother Art Prize winner 2018
Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture, British School at Rome, October 2012-September 2013
Graduate Award, Lewisham Art House, 2011-2012
Paris Residency at Cite Internationale des Arts, 2010
Eric and Jean Cass Sculpture Award 2010-2011
Press, Publications & Texts:
Best Visual Art Shows, The Irish Times, Sat 6th July, Aidan Dunne
BBC Radio Foyle, review for Command lines, 28th June, interview 21st June 2019
Unreasonable Silence, (tarot deck and artist book) published by common-editions April 2019
Lotus, with text by Kathy Nobel Oct 2017
Review- This is Tomorrow Feb 2017
Interview- Studio International Feb 2017
Artist's Book- The Vernacular History of the Golden Rhubarb, Text by Dr Oren Margolis Jan 20172017
FUKT Magazine Interview, 2013
Review A-N magazine, 2012
Interview Salisbury Arts Centre, 2012
Education:
Royal College Of Art, MA Sculpture, 2009- 2011
The Slade School of Fine Art, BA Fine Art (1st Class hons), 2005 -2009
Contact
all works & images © Candida Powell-Williams