British artist Lucy Williams redefines the concept of collage through her intricate mixed media bas-reliefs depicting deserted scenes of mid 20th century Modernist architecture. Her works are a fine balance: structurally and in the tension between the precision and masculinity of the stark utopian architecture that is re-invested with humanity through the painstaking and traditionally feminine domain of craft. Ultimately, Williams’s primary interest lies in the interplay of representation that the Modernist source material so lends itself to in descriptions of geometric and modular blocks of material and colour.

Lucy Williams studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Academy in London. She lives and works in London.

Lucy Williams has exhibited internationally with solo shows including Beneath a Woollen Sky and Pavilion, both at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (2007 and 2012 respectively), Festival at McKee Gallery, New York (2014), and most recently with Pools at Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (2017). Group shows have included Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2008), After curated by Marjolaine Levy at Galerie Mitterand, Paris (2013), Major Contemporary Works at Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (2019) and Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2019).

Lucy Williams is represented by Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.

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