(1926 - 1990)
Aubrey Williams left Guyana at the height of the Independence Movement in 1952, and moved to the UK. Following his first exhibition in London in 1954, he became an increasingly significant figure in the post-war British avant-garde art scene. In 1966, he came together with a group of London-based Caribbean artists and intellectuals to found the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), which served as a dynamic hub of cultural activity until its dissolution in 1972. From 1970 onwards, Williams worked in studios in Jamaica and Florida, as well as the UK, and it was during this period that he produced his best-known works. Williams’ work was included in Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s–Now at Tate Britain (2021–22) and in the recent rehang of Tate Britain's collection, a room has been dedicated to his work, Aubrey Williams: Cosmological Abstractions, 1973–85.
