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Lois Williams
Wales

2004 Sansa Workshop

I found the SaNsA experience enormously inspiring and rewarding. It enabled me to work beside artists whose practise often derived from traditional craft skills such as carving in wood and stone, wall painting and ceramics. Certain qualities found in my own work, such as the interest in the handmade, the use of local materials, the response to locality, were also shared by the artists I met there.

My invitation to take part in Sansa gave me the opportunity to develop further links with Wales and west Africa, links begun with the Cyfuniad International Artists Workshops held in Wales in 1999 and 2001. SaNsA has created further possibilities for exhibition and exchange and a means to engage with international networks outside Africa and create further opportunities for projects and the sharing of ideas.

Curriculum Vitae

LOIS WILLIAMS

BIOGRAPHY

1953 Born in North Wales

1971-72 Wrexham Technical College

1972-75 Manchester Polytechnic

1975-76 University of London, Goldsmith’s College

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (* exhibition catalogue)

1983 Wrexham Library Arts Centre and Oriel, Theatr Clwyd, Mold

1986 Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield. Lois Williams. Recent Sculptures

1987 St. Paul’s Gallery, Leeds. Lois Williams, Sculpture

1995 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno/Wrexham Arts Centre (and tour) From the Interior. Lois Williams Selected Sculpture 1983-1995 *

1999 Rich Women of Zurich, London. A Living Position

2000 Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham. Objects and Ashes

2002 Gallery of |Modern Art, London Lois Williams

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1975 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Northern Young Contemporaries

1979 Aberystwyth Arts Centre (and tour) Sculpture by Young Artists Living or Working in Wales

1981 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno/Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Art and the Sea *

1983 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Sculpture by Women *

1984 Arnolfini, Bristol. Pandora’s Box *

1985 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (and tour) Women’s Art in Wales *

Nottingham Castle Museum (and tour) Beyond Appearances *

1986 Rochdale Art Gallery. Off the Shelf *

Cornerhouse, Manchester. City Life, Political Life

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (and tour) Conceptual Clothing *

1987 Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery. Paper and Thread

1988 Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley (and tour) Along the Lines of Resistance *

1989 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno. Ways of Telling

Rochdale Art Gallery. Animal Liberation-The Centre of the Circle *

Oriel, Cardiff. The Natural Element *

Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London. It Makes Sense! Artworks to Touch, Smell, See and Hear

1990 Tate Gallery, Liverpool (and tour) New North. New Art from the North of Britain *

Museum of Garden History, London. Art at your Fingertips

Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (and tour) The Paper Show *

1992 Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London (and tour) BP re-Vision. New Challenges in Contemporary Art *

South London Art Gallery. 2^nd Coming. Outstanding Contemporary Art from Ten Years of Major Exhibitions 1980-1990

Leeds University Art Gallery. On the Brink? *

Southern Arts Touring. Journeys *

1993 Gallery of Modern Art, London. Celtic Landscape

1994 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno/Newport Museum and Art Gallery (and touring) Disclosure(s) *

Aberystwyth Arts Centre (and tour) Into the Elements *

1995 Glyn Vivian Gallery, Swansea. (and tour) Intimate Portraits *

1996 Harlech. Harlech Biennale *

Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrew’s (and tour) Grave Goods

1997 Collins Gallery, Glasgow. Wax Works *

Moderna Galerija, Zagreb (and tour) Borders *

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Contemporary Art Society for Wales 60^th Anniversary Exhibition

1998 National Museum of Wales. Landmarks

1999 Harlech. Harlech Biennale *

Rich Women of Zurich, London. Cameo

Winner of the Gold Medal in Fine Art, National Eisteddfod of Wales

2001 Newlyn Art Gallery/Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (and tour) Artworkers *

Aberystwyth Arts Centre (and tour) Luminaries *

2002 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Self/Portrait

2004 Sansa. Alliance Francaise Kumasi, Ghana.

SELECTED PROJECTS AND ON-LINE EXHIBITIONS

1994 Cardiff. Artist’s Project. Various venues. Site-Ations

1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women. Beijing and Arizona State University. World’s Women on Line

199 7 Axis Web Exhibition, Cardiff Bay Arts Trust Selection

1999 Axis Web Exhibition, selected by Jill Morgan

Triangle Arts Trust, Cyfuniad International Artists Workshop

2001 Triangle Arts Trust, Cyfuniad International Artists Workshop

2004 Sansa International Artists Workshop, Kumasi, Ghana

2004 Artist in Residence, Ynys Enlli.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arts Council Collection

Contemporary Art Society for Wales

Derek Williams Trust {loan, National Museum and Galleries of Wales}

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

(Including radio and television)

I. Bala, The Simplest Aid to Looking at Wales. Communications with Lois Williams, in I. Bala (ed.) Certain Welsh Artists, Custodial Aesthetics in Contemporary Welsh Art. Seren Press, 1999

M. Barlow. From the Interior: The Sculpture of Lois Williams. Planet, no. 93, June/July 1992

M. Barlow, interview with Lois Williams. Uned Gelf/The Art Unit, No.4, Feb/March 1993

J. Beckett. Resistance, Continuity, Struggle. Feminist Art News. Vol 2, no. 9, 1989

D. Briers. New Art in Wales. Art and Design, Vol 5, no. 3/4, 1989: 40 under 40, the New Generation in Britain

R. Clark. Barnsley’s Line of Most Resistance. The Guardian, 1989

R. Clark. New North. The Guardian, 5 June 1990

R. Clark. Lois Williams, Leeds, The Guardian, July 16, 1996

A. Cullis. Sculpture by Women at Ikon, Power Plays at Pentonville. Artscribe no.44, Dec. 1983 (Reproduced in R. Parker and G. Pollock, (eds.) Framing Feminism) [see below]

A. Douglas/N. Wegner (eds.) Artists Stories, AN Publications, Sunderland 1996

P. Dunford. A Biographical Directory of Women Artists in Europe and America since 1850. London, 1991

G. Falkiner. Paper Watson-Guptill Publications, New York. 1999

T. Garb. Pandora’s Box at Rochdale and the Arnolfini. Artscribe no. 48, Sept/Oct. 1984

Granada Television, Celebration. July 1993

A. Greenan, A Thief of Object’s Use, Women’s Art Magazine, May/June 1995

D. Gwyn Jones, Ol y Wlad, Cerflyniau Lois Williams. Barn, Gorffennaf/Awst 1995

A. Henri. Lois Williams, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Daily Post, 26 April, 1995

T.Hilton. A New View of the North. The Guardian, 23 May 1990

Kaleidoscope, Radio 4, January 1991

R. Lewis. Off the Shelf. Art Line Vol 3, no. 2, 1986

D. Lovely. Bread, Socks and Broomsticks. City Life no. 48 1986

R. McGrath. Sculpture by Women. Aspects no. 25. 1983-84. (Reproduced in R. Parker and G. Pollock, (eds.) Framing Feminism) [see below]

C. Oliver. The Guardian, 5 June 1990

R. Parker/G. Pollock, (eds.) Framing Feminism. Art and the Women’s Movement 1970-85. Pandora Press, London and New York, 1987

Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1990

D. Wright. Beyond Appearances. Arts Review. 7 June 1985

Women’s Art Magazine, no. 55, Nov/Dec 1993

Lois Williams at work 2004

Untitled 2004