Caro Williams

London, South West, United Kingdom

About Caro Williams

Caro Williams is a London-based installation and mixed media artist who works with symbols, sound, language, and place. Caro's art makes use of a wide range of materials and processes to create installations, objects, and visual poems. Predominately referencing poetry and the natural world, much of the work incorporates symbols, text, film stills and recorded sounds, especially voice and birdsong, presented as both aural and visual experiences. Central to Caro's art practice is an ongoing fascination and exploration of connections between symbols, sound, language, nuance, and place. Caro graduated from AUT Auckland, where she received a postgraduate research scholarship and gained an MA focusing on sculpture with First Class Honours. Caro exhibits widely in galleries and outside environments. She has received a number of commissions and awards for her work, including the Wallace Trust Postgraduate Artist Award, the 2013 Headland Sculpture on the Gulf Gen-i Selectors Award, she was a finalist in the 2014 Wallace Arts Awards, and a 2016 recipient of Creative New Zealand World War 1 Centenary (WW100) Co-commissioning Fund. Projects include Cicatrix 2016-2018, an international artist collaboration with exhibitions and residencies in New Zealand, UK, and Canada. Caro co-curated Contemporary Art + Ritual at the Crypt Gallery, London. Caro’s work is held in public and private collections including the Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand and Luciano Benetton Imago Mundi Collection, Italy. Professional Affiliations – Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS), Axisweb. Arts Territory Exchange.

Education:

ART QUALIFICATIONS
2008 Master of Arts (1st class Hons), AUT, Auckland
2005 Bachelor of Visual Arts, AUT, Auckland
1996 Foundation Fine Art, Camberwell College of Arts, London

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2018 Funding and Support received from New Zealand Embassy, London

2017 Funding in kind and Support received from Manurewa Local Board, Auckland Council

2016 Funding and Support received from Creative New Zealand –WW100 Co-commissioning Fund

2015 Finalist (2nd place in category), Celeste 7th International Contemporary Art Prize

2015 Awarded – Distinguished Artist Award, ArtAscent, Art & Literature Journal, June 2015

2014 Finalist, 23rd Annual Wallace Art Awards

2013 Awarded the Gen-i Selector’s Award, Headland Sculpture On The Gulf, Waiheke

2008 Awarded the Wallace Arts Trust Award for Most Promising Visual Arts Postgraduate

2007 Awarded a Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Visual Arts), AUT University

Exhibitions:

Recent Exhibitions
2020
In the Silent Air selected for inclusion in Fabrizio Paterlini – Piano Microstories – The Eighth Note Publication

2019
4th Today’s Documents: A Stitch in Time, Arts Territory Exchange, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Soundscape – Iceland selected as New Art Highlight by Axisweb (23-29 September 2019)

Put this in Your Window and Think of Me – Arts Territory Exchange, Dept of Land Economy Cambridge University and Cambridge Artworks Gallery

The Blue Hour selected as New Art Highlight by Axisweb (13-19 May 2019)

Contemporary Art + Ritual, (co-curator + exhibiting artist), Crypt Gallery, London

2018
Cicatrix Imprime, Atelier Circulaire Gallery, Montreal, Canada

Cicatrix, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Swindon, UK

Call and Response, Trowbridge Arts, Trowbridge, UK

Shifting Ground off-site, London, as a solo component of Shifting Ground, Silo 6, Auckland, NZ

Peace Drawings I II, III selected in Five2Watch: NEON by Axisweb

2017
Call and Response (Solo exhibition), Nathan Homestead, Auckland, NZ

Drawing from Voice Installation selected for ‘Text’ Category of the Week, Axisweb

White Night Auckland, Auckland Arts Festival, NZ

Call and Response, Study in Brass, selected for ‘Metalwork’ Category of the Week, Axisweb

Call and Response, The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant, UK

2016
DUST Collective, LOOK@K’ROAD, Auckland Artweek, Auckland

Kiwi Consciousness, Imago Mundi, Trieste, Italy

Call and Response, Salisbury International Arts Festival, Salisbury, UK

Finalist Exhibition, Celeste 7th International Contemporary Art Prize, ex-BAZZI, Milan, Italy

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