Alison Williams

Alison Williams is a South African video artist, filmmaker & painter based in Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa. Her works appear internationally in various Film Festivals, Galleries and Art Museums. She is concerned with visual emotion and the triumph of the human spirit, using mainly performance-based works with a strong tendency towards the dramatic. Her video art works are mostly one on one directions towards the viewing public; psychological performance-based works produced in isolation or in remote areas. She also emphasizes a strong focus on gender-issues and sentiments pertaining to the human condition and rights of the individual.

Interested mainly with the production of works that disturb normal modes of being and using travel and personal life experience in her art; as she believes that life and art are inseparable entities. She is also the Founder, Director & Curator of Human Emotion Project which screens many international artists globally and shows Films that represent human emotion, incorporating the moving image. Contemporary Abstract paintings working predominantly in large-scale oils, but meddling in a variety of mediums either in combination with Video Installation or else hunting out intriguing...

Selected Listings

2014:

PPP Project on Visual Container(Milan) 13 February - 13 March 2014. My work curated by Joas Sebastian Nebe and produced for Proverb Picture Project (Germany) - Participating artists:
Kisito Assangi/Togo/France/UK, Beate Goerdes/Germany, Cora de Lang/Argentina, Germany, Michael Baastrup Chang/Denmark, Marty McCutcheon/US, Mike Hinc/UK, Joas Sebastian Nebe/Germany, Sahin Ozbay/Turkey, Lueder Schruff/Germany, Paul Rascheja/Poland/Germany, Evrensel Ürüm/Turkey, Alison Williams/RSA
IFAC - International Fine Arts Consortium and The Mykonos Biennale at Art Basel Miami Beach - Curated by Lee Wells

2013:

HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT HEP2013 London "Love & Hate"
19 November at Artreview (Curated by Alison Williams)


1 - 15 October at the Athenaeum Port Elizabeth - Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa - SOLO
"Slow Moving Fields" Alison Williams (Photography and Video Art) and a Collaboration with Ali Ettehad (Iran) on the screening of "River Dream"Iran and "Lost Infinite"RSA (2 art films)

Mykonos Biennale - Crisis and Paganism 21-30 June 2013
presented by Peanut underground NYC curated by Lee Wells & Katie Peyton
Artists: Alison Williams, Betty Tompkins, Colette Lumiere and Friedericke Schaefer, [dNASAb]...