Martin Williams Art Gallery
Martin Williams is a figurative artist whose sculptures are in collections in Australia and the UK. He was a finalist in Australia’s biannual Tom Bass Figurative Sculpture Prize 2022. Martin’s art was nurtured since his youth and during his careers in advertising and academia. In taking classes at Waverley Art School (Bondi) since 1997 and subsequently attending Tom Bass Sculpture School from 2007, his practice has developed, and in studying for a Batchelor of Fine Art at National Art School from 2020 embracing drawing and printing, and in majoring in painting Martin’s output has quadrupled.
Martin Williams is a figurative artist whose practice embraces drawing, painting and sculpture.
Currently studying for a Batchelor of Fine Art at National Art School in Sydney, Martin is an author and academic whose art practice seeks inventiveness and uniqueness.
About
I have over twenty years experience in sculpture, and have succeeded as a finalist in Australia’s foremost figurative sculpture competition
The Tom Bass Prize 2022.
Projects
Painting projects include a series on Australian iconic poet Henry Lawson and his various internships as an inmate of Darlinghurst Gaol, the site of the National Art School. This work is contrasted with a series on Brett Whiteley, Australia’s ‘Saint of Paint’ that concerns his relationships with painting and artist Francis Bacon, and his untimely demise.
Experiments
I’m always working in parallel on something where the ideas of mechanics and art converge.
I am currently developing a generative live visual system for movement in painting, exploring how mechanics can assist contemporary art practice. Reach out if that sounds interesting to you.
Exuberance
It all begins with an idea. Maybe as a result of having a model. Exuberance is a manifestation of energy originally created in clay. Then a cast of the clay bust is made in plaster, but in a way it can be split into two or more parts. The clay within the two parts of female mould is removed and the insides are carefully cleaned. This is an important part of the process because this plaster cast is like a butterfly’s chrysalis. It is made to be discarded. This female mould is made to be used to create an exact duplication of the clay mould in a much stronger plaster. Then the stronger plaster is made and packed into each of the parts and fitted and the parts locked together. Extra plaster is poured into the middle of the mould and left to set. Then the fun begins because the weaker plaster has to be carefully chipped off to reveal the strong plaster cast, ! Then it can be, at long last, taken to be cast in bronze.
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0414011948 Australia or international +61414011948
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