SUE WILLIAMS

RAPTURES & RUPTURES

26|03 - 30|04 2022

TEN is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by award-winning artist Sue Williams

RAPTURES & RUPTURES features Williams’s latest body of paintings on canvas and mixed media drawings. Akin to pages from a visual diary, published for all to see, Williams’s characteristically bold and immediate paintings tell of awkward encounters, sticky situations and erotic experiences. Issues of sexual communication, dysfunction and human frailty are imbedded in her work; themes which are explored and executed with such truthfulness and raw honesty.

The exhibition will also include the release of a new publication LUST LONGING LOVE - a collaborative book of words and drawings between Williams and art theorist Marilyn Allen, documenting their conversations and responses and offering different perspectives on what it is to live as a ‘woman’ in the 21st Century.

At the heart of Williams’s whole practice is a universal, wholly necessary yet simple theme: that of human communication. The result is a practice which challenges taboos and provokes a response - it demands attention from the viewer. Some may be dismissive, others embarrassed but such universally human themes are relatable to all - whether we admit it or not.

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Mae TEN yn falch o gyflwyno arddangosfa unigol o waith newydd gan yr artist Sue Williams.

Mae RAPTURES & RUPTURES yn cynnwys corff diweddaraf o baentiadau ar ganfas a gwaith cyfrwng cymysg ar bapur. Yn debyg i dudalennau o ddyddiadur gweledol - a gyhoeddir i bawb i'w gweld - adrodda baentiadau eofn Williams hynt a helynt sefyllfaoedd lletchwith a phrofiadau erotig. Yn ganolbwynt i’w gwaith, trafodir materion iechyd rhywiol a chyfarthrebu rhwng y rhywiau yn null nodweddiadol beiddgar a chryf o ddarlunio Williams - themâu sy'n cael eu harchwilio gyda gwirdeb a gonestrwydd crai.

Cynhwysa’r arddangosfa gyhoeddi llyfr newydd a grëwyd ar y cyd rhwng Williams â’r theorist celf Marilyn Allen. Dogfen o’u sgyrsiau a’u hymatebion yw LUST LONGING LOVE, a chynnigia’r gyfrol safbwyniatu gwahanol ar beth yw byw fel ‘menyw’ yn yr 21ain ganrif.

Mae thema syml ac angenrheidiol wrth wraidd holl waith Williams: sef cyfathrebu dynol. Mae'r gwaith a gynhyrchir yn herio tabws ac yn ysgogi ymateb - mae'n gofyn am sylw gan y gwyliwr. Efallai y bydd rhai yn diystyru, eraill ag embaras ond mae ei themâu cyffredinol a dynol yn cyffwrdd â phawb - p'un ydym yn ei gyfaddef ai peidio.