Sue Williams
Urban Regeneration detail (coloured pencil and ink on paper)
I trained as a painter at Wolverhampton Poly and then went on to study History and Theory of Modern Art at Chelsea.
My career as an arts practitioner has been somewhat patchy as quite early on I realised I wasn't getting the same opportunities/experiences as my peers - primarily because I was disabled. As a result I began to work in roles to support disabled artists and potential artists to get equal access to opportunities. I have continued to work in this field, however over the last 3 years I have begun to realise the impact that not engaging in my own practice has had on me.
3 years ago I found a studio and began to make work again, I found that in the winter the studio became so cold that I was unable to paint. So I began to work on small images at home and this is how this series of work began. A continuing theme within my work has been animals as metaphor originally drawing on the witchhunts as source material (being particularly interested in the relationship to the impaired body) and ideas surrounding transmografication (humans transforming into animals).
last updated: 2005-12-01 00:00:00
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