Bard Attitude

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Bedwyr Williams was born in St Asaph, North Wales, in 1974, and grew up in Colwyn Bay. He completed a BA in Fine Art at Central St Martins in 1997 and an MA at Ateliers, Arnhem. After a period in London, he returned to Wales to live and work in Caernarfon. He was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Art in 2004. Solo exhibitions include The Jinx, 1857, Oslo (2010); Nimrod, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool (2009); Methodist to my Madness, The Bakery, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam (2009); and No More Mr Nice Guy, Store Gallery, London (2008). In 2012 Williams had a solo exhibition, My Bad, at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, presented by Ikon and Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, which toured to Mission Gallery, Swansea. In the same year, he had a group exhibition at the Kunstverein Bonn, Germany, and a solo exhibition, Dear Both, at the Ceri Hand Gallery, London (2012). In 2013, Bedwyr Williams represented Wales in an official Collateral Event at the 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale.

Places

Wales

Subjects

harp, musician, bard, poet, landscape C21st, moss, tree, mountain, river, rock formation, stone/rock, cliff, beard, Welsh, sandal, druid

Materials & Techniques

colour photograph, C-type photograph

Artist

Bedwyr Williams (1974 - )

Title

Bard Attitude

Edition

2/5

Date

2005

Medium

C-type photographic print

Dimensions

height: 99.60 cm, width: 88.90 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, November 2009

Inscription

none

GAC number

18293