CANDIDA POWELL-WILLIAMS
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Lives and works in London
Contact candidapowellwilliams@gmail.com
Powell-Williams has an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London (2011) and a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art London (2009).Recent exhibitions include Tilt Shift: Shadows of the Seasoned Sun, Southwark Park Galleries, 2022; The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, 2022; ‘Orbit within the Echoes’, a performance as part of Whitechapel Gallery’s Nocturnal Creatures (2021), ‘The Gates of Apophenia’, Bosse & Baum London (2019); ‘Command Lines’, Void Gallery Northern Ireland (2019); ‘Lessness, still quorum’, performance, Serpentine Galleries, London (2018). Powell-Williams’ was awarded: Mother Art Prize (2018); Artist in Residence at The Warburg Institute (2018-19); Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome (2012-13); Eric and Jean Cass Sculpture Award (2010-11); and Paris Residency at Cite Internationale des Arts (2010).
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2023: Crystalis, commission, Zabludowicz Collection, Sarvisalo in Loviisa, Finland
2022: Tilt Shift: Shadows of the Seasoned Sun, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2019: Command Lines, Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
The Gates of Apophenia, Bosse and Baum Gallery, London
Sonic Arrangements in the Infinite Fill, performance, Void Gallery @ Derry City Walls, Northern Ireland
2018: Lessness, still quorum, performance, Serpentine Galleries
2017: Vernacular History of the Golden Rhubarb, Bosse & Baum Gallery, London
2015: AVATAR, The Gate Theatre, London
2014: Coade’s Elixir- an occupation, Concrete Cafe, Hayward Gallery
Glissando, Bosse and Baum Gallery, London
2012: Sleight, Lewisham Arthouse, London
Glissando, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023: Bye Bye Cowboy, Arusha Gallery, London
In the Pink, Parlour Gallery, London
Preconscious Landscape, Ainalaiyn Space, London
2022: The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Can you Hear it? Cooke Latham Gallery, London
2021: Orbit within the Echoes, Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2020: Fountain of Hygiene, Design Museum London
Art O Rama, Marseille, France
2019: Tailbone, Artesian Well, London
2018 Mother Art Prize, Mimosa House, London
2017: Cache, Art Night Associate Prog. performance, London
Tongue Town, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
2016: Icons #2, performance, PIC, Melbourne Australia
2015: Dingbat, Art Language Location Festival Cambridge, UK
2014: Icons #1, performance, BIFAMI, Phillips Auction House
2013: DentalFlux, Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London
Hot Stones, Wet Areas, Fast Melons, Vienna
Frances Bacon Opera Set Design, National Portrait Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, James Joyce Centre
2012: Please be Quiet, British School at Rome, Italy
2011: I’ll be your Mirror, Supercollider, Blackpool
Awards & Residencies:
Mother Art Prize winner 2018
The Warburg Library Artist in Residence , 2018-2019
Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture, British School at Rome, 2012-2013
Graduate Award, Lewisham Art House, 2011-2012
Paris Residency at Cite Internationale des Arts, 2010
Eric and Jean Cass Sculpture Award 2010-2011
Education:
Royal College Of Art, MA Sculpture, 2009- 2011
The Slade School of Fine Art, BA Fine Art, 2005 -2009
Links :
The London Open, TimeOut 2022
Now Nancy, Soho Radio, 2022
Top 5 Immersive Art Exhibitions London, Fad Magazine, 2022
Talk with Hettie Judah, Southwark Park Galleries
Interview for King and Mcgaw, 2022
Interview for Whitechapel Gallery London Open, 2022
The Gates of Apophenia, This is Tomorrow Review by Harriet Smith Hughes , 2020
Brexit, Gender and Northern Ireland’s Supernatural Landscapes, Edwin Coomasaru, British Art and the Environment, published by Routledge 2021
The Silver Stream, with Byzantia Harlow Soho Radio, 2020
Lockdown Elevenses, Southwark Park Galleries Podcast, 2020
The Wellness Formula with Candice Jacobs and Fine Years Gallery 2020
Feminism, Magic & Brexit, review Dr Edwin Coomasuru, Burlington Contemporary, 2019
Interview, Floorr Magazine, November 2019
Best Visual Art Shows, The Irish Times, Sat 6th July, Aidan Dunne
Can you buy Performance Art? The Financial Times, Melanie Gerlis, Sept 2018
London's Rising Stars, The Evening Standard Hettie Judah, 2017
This is Tomorrow Feb 2017
Review A-N magazine, 2012
(Email for a full list of exhibitions and press)