Country:
Categories:
Justin Williams creates work that is quietly mystical, from a place of subversive beauty where urban legends and local stories contain strange and wonderful characters. It is these characters that interest and inform a new body of sculptures and paintings, which delve into the mysteries of the mountain where Williams lives and works.
The beauty within the grotesque is woven through stories that surround local figures – idyllic locations in the mountain ranges contain enigmatic figures that exist in an ever-shrinking space, surviving outside of society’s eye.
Raw and honest, Williams is unearthing the internal struggle of the duality between light and dark, beauty and hostility, legends and truth; these works are both finished, yet unfinished, as are the people and stories that inform them. The paintings reveal landscapes shimmering in a space between public and hidden worlds and sculptures speak of characters living within the confines of an almost smothering forest.
Justin Williams holds a Bachelor of Communication and Design, Majoring in Printmaking and Illustration from Swinburn University. He has held numerous solo exhibitions including Viridian, 2014, Anna Pappas Gallery; Mountain I Miss You, 2013, Mild Manner, Brisbane; A Touch of Norway, 2012, Lapis Lazuli Pop Up Factory Gallery, Melbourne. His selected group exhibitions include at the Melbourne Art Fair in 2014; Project 14: Free Range, 2014, Anna Pappas Gallery; Trouble in Paradise, 2012, Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne; and Group Show, 2012, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne. He has been featured in Artist Profile, Australian Creative and New York Arts Magazine.
Anna Pappas Gallery, 2-4 Carlton Street, Prahran VIC 3181
