William R. Dew

Submitted by williardew on February 29, 2012 - 15:32
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Individual

My practice is involved in working with mixed media. My work has looked at the relationships between objects and people. I am interested in what role art and philosophy plays in people’s lives and it’s an effect on the world at large. I am interested in the self, the interpretation of memory and the recurring trauma.

In my film work, I have created films since the start of 2007. I am interested in using film as another form of painting to tell a narrative or as a living painting. Film like Apples, I was trying to produce and sense of wonder. Whilst my film, The repeated ghost causes a sense of anxiety, a repeated anxiety. Film provides the perfect opportunity to bring life into static paintings.

"William Dew is an emerging artist who graduated from the University of Reading in
2008.He has taken part in group exhibitions in the Reading,Oxford and Swindon.
William has been asked to exhibit work at Galerie Gora in Canada and
Artists Haven Gallery in America.

William’s practice is a mixture of painting, collage and film. William has taken part in
the John Moores painting prize and the National Portrait Prize.