I work with photography, video and sound to expand and disrupt traditional representations of landscape. I approach contemporary issues in a reflective way, experimenting with media and metaphor to create new narratives.
The beauty of a landscape isn’t that important to me. Most of the time my photographs show a location that has been compromised – either by environmental factors or by a connection to a particular narrative. The locations are never random; they are specific sites that I return to and obsess over, and most projects continue for a year or longer.
While some projects reference personal history, memory and the passage of time, others reflect on contemporary socio-political and environmental concerns. My ongoing photographic series, Disrupted Landscapes, and video, Chalk, both explore contemporary politics in England through the metaphor of landscape, specifically focusing on the landscape of the Kent coast.
To enquire about images, pricing and print availability, or to arrange exhibitions and collaborative projects please email: info@mandywilliams.com
Education
MA Photography (Distinction), LCC, University of the Arts London. BA (Hons) History of Art, Warwick University. Graduate Diploma Communications Film, Goldsmith's College.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 A Strange and Familiar Sea, Worthing Museum & Art Gallery
2019 Beyond the Reach of Rivers, Fishing Quarter Gallery, Brighton 2016 River Stories, Unseen Landscapes, Gallery 7 - Pie Factory, Margate, Kent
2013 Waiting for You / An Open Door, House Gallery, London
2011 Immerse - Photomonth, London
2010 Inside - Photomonth, London
2001 Presence - Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver
2000 A Place Called Home - Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver
1999 Threshold - Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby
1998 Flesh & Blood - Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver
1997 Picture Windows - Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver
Selected Group Exhibitions and Film Screenings
2024 Hastings Rocks International Film Festival 2024 Photofusion Salon/24, London 2024 Disrupted Landscapes (3-person show), Four Corners, London 2023 Festival CinemaZERO 2023 MUSE award programmme, Trento, Italy 2023 Cornwall Film Festival at CMR Project Space, Redruth 2023 The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London 2023 Fisheye Film Festival, High Wycombe 2023 Hastings Rocks International Film Festival 2023 Photo OPEN, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2022 Photofusion Salon/22, London 2022 OPEN Eco, Photo Fringe outdoor display on Worthing Seafront 2022 River, Signals, Miracles at Photo Fringe, Brighton, with Collective 22 2022 Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival, Ramsgate, Kent 2022 East Meets West 22 - Part of Format 22 Presents, Derby 2022 LOOK Climate Lab with Land Art Agency - Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool 2021 The Next Thing Moving Image Award, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre 2021 Photofusion SELECT 21, London 2021 NEXUS - Photo Open Up Festival, Padua, Italy 2021 NEXUS - 46 Space, London 2021 Photofusion Salon/21, London 2021 England / Reflection, Offshoot Gallery, London 2020 By the Sea - outdoor exhibition, Worthing supported by local councils 2020 YEARBOOK - exhibition and publication supported by Shutter Hub 2020 Postcards from the Edge: Benefit for Visual Aids - Bortolami, New York 2019 HOME: Shutter Hub benefit exhibition at Gallery at Home, Usk, Wales 2019 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London 2019 Time to Think, Festival Pil’Ours, France 2019 Thought Atlas, Espacio Gallery, London 2019 Women Photographers Today, Barcelona 2019 Everything I Ever Learnt, ARB, Cambridge University 2019 Postcards from the Edge: Benefit for Visual Aids - Bortolami, New York 2019 209 Women - Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool 2018 209 Women - Palace of Westminster, London 2018 SALON/18, Photofusion, London 2018 30th Annual Open, London Independent Photography, Espacio Gallery, London 2018 The Family of No Man - Cosmos Arles, France 2018 Micro Acts, Artists Films Screening, Hotel Elephant, London 2018 Postcards from the Edge: Benefit for Visual Aids - Gallery 524, New York
2017 29th Annual Open, London Independent Photography, Truman Brewery, London
2017 London Group Open Exhibition, London
2017 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
2017 Thoughtful Planet, Thought Foundation, Birtley, Gateshead
2017 Postcards from the Edge: A benefit for Visual Aids - Metro Pictures, New York
2016 SALON/16, Photofusion, London
2016 28th Annual Open, London Independent Photography, Espacio Gallery, London
2016 164 Annual Open exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2016 Scenes from the City: Urban Photography - curated by Mark de Novellis, Riverside Gallery, Richmond
2016 Postcards from the Edge: Visual Aids benefit - Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2016 Short Circuit, ’Town and Country’ curated experimental film screening, Brighton
2015 '23:57', video screening for exhibition and residency series, Fuse Art Space, Bradford
2015 22nd International Independent Film Festival PUBLICYSTYKA 2015, Poland
2015 National Open Art, Royal College of Art, London
2015 163 Annual Open exhibition (Academician candidate), Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2015 One Stop Photo London exhibition, Seven Dials Club, London
2015 Postcards from the Edge: A benefit for Visual Aids - Luhring Augustine, New York
2014 National Open Art, Somerset House London and Chichester, West Sussex
2014 Here From Now landscape photography, curated by William Esdale, Camden Image Gallery, London
2014 162 Annual Open exhibition, Royal West of England Academy juried exhibition
2014 Guest artist Photomonth Photo Open, Rich Mix, London
2014 Guest artist Deptford X Fringe, London
2014 Now Wakes the Sea curated by Tessa Fitzjohn, Kinsale Arts Festival
2014 Lost: An artistic archaeology of the recent past curated by Dr Michele Whiting - Salisbury Arts Centre
2014 Home exhibition - Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool
2014 Dunedin Fringe Festival film screening - Dunedin, New Zealand
2014 Film Open curated by Hazel Stone - Sidney Cooper Gallery, Christchurch University, Canterbury
2014 Art/Converters - Studio 1.1 Gallery, London
2014 Postcards from the Edge: A benefit for Visual Aids - Luhring Augustine, New York
2013 8th International Streaming Festival of audiovisual art, organized by the isfth foundation, The Hague
2013 Cairo Video Festival, curated by Mohamed Allam and Dia Hamed, Cairo
2013 WPA's Experimental Media Screening 2013 - The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design, Washington, USA, selected by Jason Eppink
2013 Intermission: Audio portraits of Place, open call curated by Jennie Savage for Echoes programme, OSSO, Portugal
2013 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
2013 Hot-One-Hundred, Schwartz Gallery, London
2013 Playing with Space Artist Film Screenings, part of RIBA's Love Architecture Festival, Firstsite, Colchester
2013 Athens Video Art Festival, curated by Eirini Olympiou, Athens
2013 ArtLacuna Film Festival, London
2013 Discovering Borderlands, curated artist-run exhibition, Moscow
2013 Drugstore Beetle II, a David Horvitz project - Special Collections Library, CSU, Long Beach
2013 Postcards from the Edge: Visual Aids benefit - Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2012 Gaze film season's opening program, Home, by women filmmakers - ATA, San Francisco
2012 Postcards from the Edge: A benefit for Visual Aids - Cheim & Reid, New York
2011 Print and Design Now! 2011 - Bearspace Gallery, London
2011 Print and Design Now! 2011 - SW1 Gallery, London, presented by Bearspace and selected by Julia Alvarez, Owen Ward & Mary Alice Stack
2011 Resonance Open, sound art exhibition curated by Ed Baxter for Gone with the Wind - Raven Row, London
2011 Lightworks 2011 - Festival of film, sound, installation + new media, Grimsby
2011 Silent Films by Women Filmmakers - London Festival of Women in Music
2011 Open Photography 2011 - Royal West of England Academy juried exhibition
2011 An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, A two-part exhibition presented by Cabinet and MASS MoCA curated by Regine Basha
2010 Home - Viewfinder Gallery, London
2010 London Independent Photography - selected by Paul Ellis, Photofusion, & Lucinda Chua, Proud Gallery
2010 The Facebook Show (invited artist) - Museum of New Art, Detroit
2010 Suspended - House Gallery, London
2010 Print Now (Part 2) - Bearspace Gallery, London
2010 The Saatchi 10 - Museum of New Art, Detroit
2010 Print Now - London Art Fair, presented by BEARSPACE and selected by Kay Saatchi, Pryle Behrman, Julia Alvarez and Mike Sims
2009 London Independent Photography - selected by Magda Keaney, Curator Photography NPG & Susanna Brown, Curator Photography V&A
2009 The Writing's on the Wall - curated text art exhibition coinciding with Humberside Literature Festival, Artlink Gallery, Hull
2008 London Independent Photography - group exhibition selected by Clare Grafik, Curator, Photographers Gallery, London & Paul Hill
2003 International Open Image 2003, Deluxe Gallery, London
2002 Toronto International Art Fair with Third Avenue Gallery
2002 Detroit Video Festival - Museum of New Art, Detroit
Portfolios
2024 British Journal of Photography (March, Virtual Reality) 2021 Phases Magazine 2020 fLIP Magazine (centrefold), L'Oeil de la Photographie, Offspring Photomeet (Rural feature) 2019 Edge of Humanity Magazine, L'Oeil de la Photographie 2018 fLIP Magazine (theme cover); Fleur & Arbor (feature) 2017 L'Oeil de la Photographie; Shots Magazine; BKN Magazine (feature); Inside the Outside; Landscape Stories; fLIP Magazine (feature)
2016 Plateform Magazine (feature); Another Place Magazine(feature); Kaltblut Magazine (Photo Essay); #Photography Magazine (Photo Essay)
2015 Minor Literatures (Photo Essay); Paradijsvogels Magazine, Amsterdam; fLIP Magazine (cover)
2014 fLIP Magazine (centrefold photograph)
2012 fLIP Magazine
2011 Slightly Lucid, Montreal;
2009 London Independent Photography Magazine
Reviews / Interviews / Books
2023 Leave to Remain: A Snapshot of Brexit, Noni Stacey, Lund Humphries 2021 Photomonitor, F-Stop Magazine 2020 Sussex Life 2019 Metro Imaging 2016 Wobneb Magazine
2015 Fleur and Arbor; The Old Girl's Club
2014 LandEscape Art Review
2013 Dulwich OnView
2011 Printmaking Today
2008 Interface, a-n
2001 Lola Magazine, Toronto; The Vancouver Sun (filed)
1998 Asian Art News; The Vancouver Sun, The Georgia Strait, The Westender
Exhibition previews and highlights
2024 RPS Journal, Caught by the River, On Landscape 2021 FAD Magazine - January exhibitions Top 5; Hampstead & Highgate Express 2020 Outdoor Photography Magazine, Black + White Photography Magazine 2019 TANK Magazine, Outdoor Photography, Wobneb Magazine, Sussex Life, RPS Journal 2015 L'Oeil de la photographie
2013 Living South Magazine; LondonCalling.com
2010 Professional Photographer
2001 GalleryChannel.com; Canadian Art Magazine
2000 Preview Magazine; The Vancouver Sun
Exhibition catalogues and publications
2023 London Group Open Exhibition catalogue 2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2015 National Open Art competition; Royal West of England Academy
2014 National Open Art competition; Royal West of England Academy; Now Wakes the Sea; Deptford X; Photomonth
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2011 An exchange with Sol LeWitt exhibition catalogue
2010 London Independent Photography
2009 London Independent Photography
2008 London Independent Photography
1999 Gallery at Ceperley House
Editorial
2021 23 Magazine (photography and text) 2017 fLIP Magazine (book review)
2016 Wobneb Magazine (Paris Photo); The Accidental Photographer (Paris Photo); Fleur and Arbor (Paris Photo)
Grants, Awards and Competitions
Award for Best Documentary Director Short Movies at the 2024 Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid (FICIMAD)
Longlisted for the Zealous Amplify creative competition on the theme of Environment
Shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society 165th International Photography Exhibition
Shortlisted for the AIS Open 2023: Women Behind the Lens
Shortlisted for Emergentes 2022 International Photography Award
Award for Best Experimental Short Film at Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival, Ramsgate, Kent
Shortlisted for the AIS Open 2022: Women Behind the Lens
3rd place, The Next Thing Moving Image Award 2021, Bury Art Museum
Chosen for Photofusion’s SELECT 21 award
Awarded Artquest’s The Light of Day Prize 2021
Awarded Photomonitor prize + Metro commendation, LCC MA Photography final show 2021
Selected for RA Summer Exhibition 2019
Awardee, Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2018
Shortlisted for the Hariban Award 2018
3rd place winner Landscapes: Seascapes, International Photographer of the Year Award 2017
Selected for RA Summer Exhibition 2017
3rd place winner Architecture: Interior, International Photographer of the Year Award 2016
Longlisted for ANTHOLOGY 2016 prize
Shortlisted for British Women Artist Award 2016
Shortlisted RWA Academician candidate 2015
Redcliffe Press Photography Award at the RWA Open Exhibition 2014
Selected for RA Summer Exhibition 2013
Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Official Selection 2011
Printmaking Today Magazine award for best original print at the RWA Open Photography exhibition 2011
Selected as Saatchi Online Top 10 Artist by writer and art critic, Charlotte Bonham-Carter 2009
Canada Council - Visual Arts grant 1999
Collections
University of the Arts Art Collection, London
UK Parliament, Parliament Art Collection (209 Women project)
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
Museum of New Art, Detroit
Comox Valley Art Gallery, Vancouver Island
Camosun College, Victoria
Private Collections in England; Ireland; United States; Canada
Professional
Co-judge LCC MA Photography Sproxton Award (2021)
Selector for London Independent Photography annual exhibition (2021)
Selected for East Meets West Masterclass (2021)
Represented by Millennium Images (2021)
Part of the London Creative Network (LCN) programme at Four Corners (2021)
Freelance Photographer talk for LCC online careers networking event (2021)
Artist’s talk with Sarah-Jane Field (OCA) + Rowan Lear (2021)
Artist’s talk at City & Cripplegate Photographic Society (2021)
Artist’s exhibition talk with curator/writer Charlotte Russell (2021)
Sea Level book published by Another Place Press (2020)
Represented by Land Art Agency (2020)
Nominated for the Royal Photographic Society 100 Heroines (2018)
Joint critique of annual photography exhibition at Greenwich Gallery with photographer Heloise Bergman (2018)
Attended Paris Photo as press photographer (2016)
Joint critique of annual photography exhibition at Greenwich Gallery with photographer Mike Seaborne (2015)
Joint critique of annual photography exhibition at Greenwich Gallery with photographer Elisabeth Blanchet (2014)
Exhibition talk to Vancouver Contemporary Art Society (2001)
Panel discussion for solo exhibition at Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada (2000)
One of 5 world-wide exhibitions recommended by London, U.K.'s GalleryChannel.com (2001)
Included in Canadian Art Magazine's Fast Forward cross-Canada guide to the season's best exhibitions (2001)