Sue Williams

Sue Williams was born in Cornwall and has lived and made her career in Wales over the last twenty years. She has taken part in many exhibitions and residencies and has a clutch of prestigious awards recognising her art 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 won international recognition when she was shortlisted as the only British artist for the Artes Mundi 2, International Visual Art Prize 2006 selected by Deepak Ananth and Ivo Mesquita. In 2009 she was awarded a major Creative Wales Award by Arts Council of Wales. Her work features in several leading private and public collections throughout USA, Africa and Europe including Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales, CAS and The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

‘I continue to explore and challenge the fantasies of feminism, sexuality, gender and culture in my work; in doing so I offer a passionate and direct response to the complex world of human frailty – the stuff of life.’