ONGOING WORK
| (ongoing) | • | ‘STRAPLESS’ a dialogue |
| • | new works under the umbrella title ‘TULU GIRLS’ |
BIOGRAPHY
| 2011 ongoing | • | ‘CRACKED’ a multi-medium collaboration with National Dance Company Wales, Millennium Centre, Wales |
| • | Phantoms of us’ collaboration with choreographer Eleesha Drennan | |
| 2010 | • | Visiting Advisor for the Rijk Akademie Amsterdam Holland |
| 2009 | • | Receive the Creative Wales Award |
| 2006 | • | Selected for the ARTES MUNDI 2006 |
| • | Selected for The Women’s Art Library Special Collections, Goldsmiths College, University of London | |
| 1996 - 99 | • | Visual Arts Board, Arts Council of Wales |
| 1985 - 87 | • | MA in Fine Art |
Sue Williams has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 20 years, achieving international acclaim when shortlisted as the only British artist for the Artes Mundi International Visual Art Prize 2006, selected by Ivo Mesquita, curator for Projecto Octogono, Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Deepak Ananth, curator and lecturer at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Caen, France. Previous to the Artes Mundi I received the Gold Medal Award, National Eisteddfod, Wales and the Rootstein Hopkins, London Painting Award in 2000.
In 2006 her solo exhibition ‘small talk, high heels’ curated by the Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales subsequently touring Wales; the National Galleries, in both Bulawayo and Harare, Zimbabwe; the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast alongside the Chapman Brothers. She was invited to exhibit at the Shang Yunsu Art Gallery, Beijing in 2007.
LECTURING/TEACHING POSITIONS
| 2010 | • | Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales – teaching BA, MA. |
| 2007-08 | • | Research Fellowship with CIRIC, Dynevor, Swansea |
| 2004 | • | Speaker at The Glynn Vivian gallery, Swansea - ELSEWHERE Exhibition |
| 2003 | • | Speaker at The Mission Gallery, Swansea - Warren Williams Exhibition |
| 2002 | • | Speaker at the National Museum & Galleries of Wales - A PROPOS |
| • | Project Co-ordinator for “Seeing Drawing" DVD, University of Plymouth and London Institute | |
| • | Speaker at the National Women’s Conference, Gregynog, Wales | |
| • | Drawing residency in response to Leonardo da Vinci, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales | |
| 1999 - ’02 | • | Drawing Programme. University Wales Institute, Cardiff. Wales |
| 1997 | • | BODYWORKS - Media Department, University of Wales, Newport, Gwent, Wales |
| 1996 - 99 | • | Sessional lecturer Faculty of Art & Design, University of Plymouth, Exeter Devon |
| 1996 | • | BODYWORKS funded by the umbrella of European funding CARTOON. |
| • | BODYWORKS - Siriol Animation Productions, Cardiff |
DRAWING PROGRAMMES / RESIDENCIES
| 2000 ongoing | • | ‘WIDE OPEN’ a time-based delivery to all first year degree students. Intensive collaborative response to the line |
| 2006 | • | Drawing programme, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
| 2002 | • | Drawing in response to Leonardo da Vinci, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales |
| 2001 | SITE-ATIONS Project, Staten Island, New York |
AWARDS/ COMMISIONS/ COLLABORATIONS
| 2011 | • | International Funding - Wales Arts International |
| 2009 | • | Creative Wales Award |
| • | ‘SHH!’ theatre installation in response to Sue Williams’ work/collaboration with choreographer Roy Campbell-Moore | |
| 2006 | • | Arts Council of Wales Project Grant |
| 2000 | • | National Eisteddfod Gold Medal Award 2000 |
| • | Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Award for Painting 2000 | |
| • | UNG - YOUNG - JUNG, Avesta Biennale 2000 |
PURCHASES/COLLECTIONS
National Museum & Galleries of Wales
National Assembly for Wales
Contemporary Art Society
Sotheby's
South Glamorgan County Council
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Private collections in UK, Africa, USA, France, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Geneva
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/CATOLOGUES
| 2010 | • | NY Arts Magazine April edition |
| • | ‘We Have The Mirrors, We Have The Plans’. Oriel Mostyn Wales | |
| • | Sue Williams & Robert Slingsby, Gallery Genesis, Athens | |
| 2007 | • | GOOD FOUNDATIONS by Paul Glinkowski |
| 2006 | • | Artes Mundi 2006 |
| • | ‘small talk, high heels’ Sue Williams – commissioned by the Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea | |
| • | nominated for Open frequency http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=11483 | |
| • | NY Arts Magazine Jan/Feb 2007 edition | |
| 2005 | • | IIMAGING THE IMAGINATION by Christine Kinsey and Ceridwen |
| • | HERE & NOW essays on contemporary art in Wales by Iwan Bala and published by Seren Publications Ltd | |
| 2001 | • | SUE WILLIAMS written by Iwan Bala. Planet Publications |
| • | DARLLEN DELWEDDAU written by Iwan Bala. |
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| • | META - Imaging the Imagination | |
| 2000 | • | The Artists Project presents CLEAN SLATE and The European Artists Network Conference |
| 1999 | • | 'PAINTING Ysbryd - Spirit Wales' - Contemporary Practise with Paint |
| 1995 | • | Intimate Portraits. Seren Publications |
| • | 'barn' - Celf A Drama, Llwfannu Celf |