2021
gelatin silver photographs
triptych size variable
image sizes: 50 x 50 cm, 50 x 75 cm, 50 x 50 cm
Edition of 1 +1AP
gelatin silver photographs
triptych size variable
image sizes: 50 x 50 cm, 50 x 75 cm, 50 x 50 cm
Edition of 1 +1AP
Horizon installation in NO SHOW Carriageworks 2021 image courtesy the artist
Artist Statement
As the world spins and time passes, to truly view the horizon is to accept the inevitability of death. Williams presents ‘Horizon’ as a vanitas, where light depicts displaced life forms attempting to transcend or flee the chronic ecological trauma that annihilates many before the expected course of their natural lifetimes. Documenting the remains of the prematurely fallen amidst the chaos of human dominance, Williams uses film and in-camera double exposures to portray the ache of mortality across the active battleground of the earth’s crust.This imagery was created on the Newnes Plateau following the devastation to the region after the Gospers Mountain Fire in late 2019.
As the world spins and time passes, to truly view the horizon is to accept the inevitability of death. Williams presents ‘Horizon’ as a vanitas, where light depicts displaced life forms attempting to transcend or flee the chronic ecological trauma that annihilates many before the expected course of their natural lifetimes. Documenting the remains of the prematurely fallen amidst the chaos of human dominance, Williams uses film and in-camera double exposures to portray the ache of mortality across the active battleground of the earth’s crust.This imagery was created on the Newnes Plateau following the devastation to the region after the Gospers Mountain Fire in late 2019.
Project Statement
WAYOUT Artspace presented Vanitas:The Bitter Crust with artists; Gus Armstrong, Leo Cremonese, Flavia Dujour, Karen Golland, Michael Petchkovsky, Georgina Pollard, Greg Pritchard, Julie Williams and Alex Wisser.
VANITAS: The Bitter Crust
As a starting point Vanitas evokes the idea of Still Life or memento mori, reminding us of the transience of life and the certainty of death: the addition of the words, The Bitter Crust, broadened the conceptual horizon, for a glimpse beyond conventional interpretation. To test the viability of these words, artists were invited, each to describe a work they would make in response, with The Bitter Crust serving as an anchor, an axis, a hinge, making a connection between all the works of contributing artists: it also provided a frame, narrowing and directing the field of inquiry while expanding the possibilities for interpretation.
WAYOUT Artspace presented Vanitas:The Bitter Crust with artists; Gus Armstrong, Leo Cremonese, Flavia Dujour, Karen Golland, Michael Petchkovsky, Georgina Pollard, Greg Pritchard, Julie Williams and Alex Wisser.
VANITAS: The Bitter Crust
As a starting point Vanitas evokes the idea of Still Life or memento mori, reminding us of the transience of life and the certainty of death: the addition of the words, The Bitter Crust, broadened the conceptual horizon, for a glimpse beyond conventional interpretation. To test the viability of these words, artists were invited, each to describe a work they would make in response, with The Bitter Crust serving as an anchor, an axis, a hinge, making a connection between all the works of contributing artists: it also provided a frame, narrowing and directing the field of inquiry while expanding the possibilities for interpretation.
Exhibitions
2022 The Bitter Crust, WAYOUT Artspace, Kandos
2021 NO SHOW curated by Aarna Hanley, Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Carriageworks invites eleven artist-led initiatives from across New South Wales for ‘No Show’. Including artist-run spaces, studios, cooperatives, digital platforms and online publications, each group presents an independent program that profiles early career and under-represented artists. Across three weeks, artists and writers work within the discrete but connected spaces designed by architects Youssofzay + Hart.
2022 The Bitter Crust, WAYOUT Artspace, Kandos
2021 NO SHOW curated by Aarna Hanley, Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Carriageworks invites eleven artist-led initiatives from across New South Wales for ‘No Show’. Including artist-run spaces, studios, cooperatives, digital platforms and online publications, each group presents an independent program that profiles early career and under-represented artists. Across three weeks, artists and writers work within the discrete but connected spaces designed by architects Youssofzay + Hart.
Essay
2021 Wisser, Alex. The WAYOUT gang goes to Carriageworks for NO SHOW with the Bitter Crust Cementa Blog
2021 Wisser, Alex. The WAYOUT gang goes to Carriageworks for NO SHOW with the Bitter Crust Cementa Blog