Lucy Williams

Radiant City is a major monograph documenting a decade of figurative and geometric work by London-based British contemporary artist Lucy Williams (b. 1972, Oxford). Her mixed-media bas-relief collages depict modernist architecture and interiors, from tower blocks and municipal buildings to private residences in Palm Springs.

In addition to figurative works, the publication also features the artist’s Threaded Collages, abstract geometric pieces inspired by Bauhaus tapestries and constructivism. Williams creates repeated triangular and diamond forms, using colourful painted papers along with silk and cotton threads.

Radiant City features a foreword by Joseph Becker, Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; essays by writers Charlotte Mullins, Salena Barry and Kathryn Lloyd; and an interview by art historian Ben Street.

Hardback 
264 pages 
29 x 24.5 x 2.8 cm  
ISBN 978-0-903696-85-2 
£50.00 
Hurtwood Books
Published 25 November 2025

‘What is evident, particularly in Williams’s glass house collages…is the beauty born of thinking about the organisation of society – municipal spaces for leisure, education, exercise and wellbeing, and labour – often appear in imagery as luxuriant examples of privacy. Williams draws out the “warmer” craftsmanship of these spaces through the sensitivity of their materials…Wool cork and embroidery are unusually deployed in the artist’s work, introducing a history of “soft” craft in a period that is occasionally misremembered as one of glamorous, hard edges.’

Laura McLean Ferris

Hardback
160 pages
29.3 x 25.1 x 1.8 cm
ISBN 978-1909399389
£40.00
Roads Publishing
Published 1 March 2015

The limited edition of Lucy Williams, housed in a bespoke etched acrylic slipcase, comes with an exclusive screenprint of Indoor Pool (with mural). This 10 colour hand pulled silk screen uses archival inks on Somerset Tub Sized 100% cotton paper. Each print is numbered from 1/100.

Hardback
160 pages
30.6 x 25.6 x 2.3cm
ISBN 978-1909399730
£200.00
Roads Publishing
Published 2 April 2015

Published to accompany the exhibition ‘Festival’ at McKee Gallery, New York, May 1 – June 20, 2014. Introduction by Sally O’Reilly.

Softcover
16 pages
22.5 x 22.5 x 0.4 cm
£10.00
McKee Gallery

Published to accompany the exhibition ‘Pavilion’ at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, November 28, 2012 – January 11, 2013. Introduction by Emma Dexter. Essay by Alex Coles.

Hardback
57 pages
26.7 x 20.6 x 1.1 cm
£15.00
Timothy Taylor Gallery

Published to accompany the exhibition ‘Beneath a Woollen Sky’ at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, September 7 – October 6, 2007. Essay by Mark Rappolt.

Hardback
31 pages
23.1 x 27.0 x 0.8 cm
£10.00
Timothy Taylor Gallery

Published to accompany the exhibition ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ at McKee Gallery, New York, March 31 – May 6, 2006.

Softcover
20 pages
17.8 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm
£5.00
McKee Gallery

Published to accompany the exhibition ‘Stranger than Paradise’ at McKee Gallery, New York, September 10 – October 9, 2004. Essay by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe.

Softcover
20 pages
17.8 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm
£5.00
McKee Gallery