Robert Cary-Williams

I guess I like to work with mediums which would become a problem but to then evolve into what I believed would be a new direction of thought, almost destroying the process to make beautiful. The burning of my personal clothes seems to reflect my departure from fashion, a moving forward into all along what I believed in was my heart & head, to paint in an unauthorised manner. For my process to be fulfilled I need to be covered in Bitumen myself, I need to put my hands in my pocket and empty them out with burnt ash, it's myself becoming the painting.

The wood burner become the focus of my work, I would take
my clothes off and burn them in the wood burner. The ash would become an obsession using my broken chair legs as guide lines for my paintings, a twig which I've kept and won't let go became my tools. I started creating shapes with the industrial sewing machine, I would create the frame and add seam allowance as I would when creating a dress, I would
create brush strokes with the sewing machine. Many processes I would stumble upon, domestic paints and bitumen, which is a vicious black tar-like liquid, would become my formula.

Decoys are very important to my vision, to confuse the viewer of the final outc...

Qualifications: MA Fine Art - Central Saint Martins
BA MA Fashion - Central Saint Martins

David Simon Contemporary Bath - Summer Exhibition and other short exhibitions
Bruton Arts Factory 2015-2017
MoMA - New York
V&A http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/fashion-in-motion-robert-cary-williams/
ICA London 2002