William J Roberts

I am a painter who travels time, creating paintings from both a future and a past. Travelling to distant colonies on other planets, revisiting lunar landings, childhood memories and future stories untold. I visit art galleries in the future and revisit museums exhibitions in the past.

My paintings are created digitally. This way of making my paintings gives me the ability to edit the image as I work. Currently the work only exists digitally but the hope is that one day I will have a factory of assistants reproducing the digital images pixel by pixel in real paint, on real canvas the size of billboards.

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William J Roberts (b. Cardiff, UK, 1977). Graduated with an MA in Fine Art from the University of Wales Cardiff (2005). Graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art, (1999). Graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art from the University of Wales Institute (1996).

Selected solo exhibitions include Magpie Gallery, Cardiff, There you Aren’t (2009). Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, The Process of Memory: New Works by William Roberts (2008). Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, William Roberts (2006).

Selected group exhibitions include Butetown History of Arts, Cardiff, Butetown Artists (2014). BayArt Gallery, Cardiff, 10 Years In (2011). Queens Arcade, Cardiff, Shop (2009). DegreeArt Gallery, London, Collect 4, (2008). Old Nat West Bank, Cardiff,Stick em up (2007). Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, Arcadia, (2007). Bay Arts Gallery, Cardiff, RecentGraduates, (2006). Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales, Surface, (2006). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, New professionals (2006). Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, Faith (2006). Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff (2005). Paint Works Gallery, Bristol (2005).