Sue Williams (nomorepink) talk Saturday 18th of March at 2pm

Williams is a prominent international artist with a recognised body of work and an exhibition history of both solo and group shows on five continents. The work is raw and accomplished; strong, charged and challenging in its links to contemporary lives and the sexualisation of Western society.

Although born in Cornwall, Sue Williams has lived and made her career in Wales. She has taken part in many exhibitions and residencies and has an array of prestigious awards recognising her work including the National Eisteddfod Wales (Gold Medal winner 2000), the Rootstein Hopkins Award (2000) and has shown in the Avesta Biennial, Sweden (2000) and the Site-ations Project in New York (2001). She was a shortlisted artist for the Artes Mundi 2, International Visual Art Prize 2006 selected by curators Deepak Ananth and Ivo Mesquita. Her work features in several leading private and public collections throughout USA, Africa, China, and Europe, including National Museum Wales, Contemporary Arts Society and The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

Sue Williams explores the rich and complex subject of human sexual relationships, dysfunction, gender communication and our dependency on social media where all aspects of human emotion, well- being, life, death, ego, and vulnerability lies. Human relationships are altering as technology is taking over from the conventional form of communication and interaction. Online chatrooms have become the norm and are often turned to as the alternative to reality. Sue Williams plays with fantasy and reality and the impact upon sexual relationships feeding the artists desire to further explore, understand and translate the meaning of ‘communication’ between people, confronting the rich core of human sexuality and in turn exposing the darkness and the humour.