Sue Williamson

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That particular morning

2019 2-channel video installation 28 minutes 33 seconds Available on Request Add to My Selection

The Last Supper, Manley Villa (Portfolio of 12 images)

1981 and 2008 Individual prints on archival cotton paper Paper size: 500 x 675mm Available on Request Add to My Selection

It's a pleasure to meet you

2016 2-channel video installation with stereo audio 24 min 40 sec Available on Request Add to My Selection

A Few South Africans - Virgina Mngoma

1984 Photo etching and screenprint collage Work: 100 x 70 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

A Tale of Two Cradocks

1994 Archival pigment ink prints on cotton rag paper, wood, extruded acetate, brass hinges Work: 43 x 25 x 500 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Better Lives: Richard Belalufu

2003 Pigment inks on cotton rag paper 144 x 122cm

Truth Games: Joyce Seipei - as a mother - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

1998 Laminated colour laser prints, wood, metal, plastic, perspex Work: 84 x 121 x 6 cm

For 30 Years Next to His Heart

1990 Colour laser prints in artist frames Work: 196 x 262 cm

Messages from the Atlantic Passage

2017 Engraved bottles, fishing nets, chain, steel shackles, water pumps and tanks Dimensions variable Available on Request Add to My Selection

Postcards from Africa: Afrique Occidentale - Senegal - Saint Louis. Un Coin de Guet N’Dar

2019 Ink on Yupo synthetic archival paper, hand engraved museum glass Available on Request Add to My Selection

Messages from the Moat

1997 Glass bottles, fishing net, tank, water, recirculating pump, audio track played through speakers Variable Dimensions

All Our Mothers: Amina Cachalia, Fordsburg

1984 Archival ink on archival paper Image: 58 x 39cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

There's something I must tell you

2013 Six screen video installation Available on Request Add to My Selection

All Our Mothers: Caroline Motsoaledi, Soweto

2012 Archival ink on archival paper Image: 58 x 39cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Messages from the Atlantic Passage VI

2021 Installation: glass bottles, water tanks, chains Variable Dimensions Available on Request Add to My Selection

From the Inside: Benjy (portrait: the artist, wall: Dave Southwood)

2000 Dibond print 90 x 200 cm / Work: 90 x 200 cm

Other Voices: It's a bit suspicious if you have too much money, Berlin. (Photo: Abrie Fourie)

2010 Archival ink on Hahnemuhle Work: 360 x 112 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

About

Sue Williamson (b. 1941, Lichfield, UK) emigrated with her family to South Africa in 1948. Trained as a printmaker, Williamson also works in installation, photography and video. In the 1970s, she started to make work which addressed social change during apartheid and by the 1980s Williamson was well known for her series of portraits of women involved in the country’s political struggle.

Referring to her practice, Williamson says: " I am interested in objects, often very humble ones, and the stories behind them. I am interested in the media, in the subtext that runs behind newspaper reports, and in books which may seem mundane like a tourist guidebook. But most of all I am interested in people, in their stories, and in the exact words they use to describe their memories, experiences and expectations’.

Williamson has avoided the rut of being caught in an apartheid-era aesthetic, constantly re-assessing changing situations, and finding new artistic languages to work out her ideas.

In 2018, Williamson was Goodman Gallery’s featured artist at the FNB Joburg Art Fair, where she exhibited her work Messages from the Atlantic Passage, a large-scale installation of shackled, suspended glass bottles engraved with details taken from 19th century slave trade documents. This installation was also exhibited the previous year at Art Basel in Switzerland and at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India in 2018.

Williamson’s works feature in numerous public collections across the globe, including those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, Tate Modern, London, UK, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA, Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, and Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa.

Williamson has received various awards and fellowships such as the Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship 2011, Italy, Rockefeller Foundation, the Visual Artist Research Award Fellowship 2007, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA and the Lucas Artists Residency Fellowship 2005, Montalvo Art Center, California, USA.

Sue Williamson lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Exhibitions

Fathom | RHE Water Show | March 2021

25 March - 30 May 2021

Sue Williamson | Testimony

11 March - 24 April 2021

Did you ever think there would come a time?

19 December - 12 March 2021

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News

Kiluanji Kia Henda, David Koloane, Mikhael Subotzky and Sue Williamson | Group exhibition | Centre Pompidou (Paris)

Posted 09 September 2020

Sue Williamson & Shirin Neshat |Group exhibition |Fondazione Merz (Turin)

Posted 09 September 2020

Shirin Neshat, Carrie Mae Weems and Sue Williamson || Push the Limits, Fondazione Merz (Torino, Italy)

Posted 05 March 2020

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Press

FT: Artist Sue Williamson explores South Africa’s painful history

Sue Williamson / Artthrob / September 2019

Sue Williamson / House & Leisure / Septmeber 2018

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