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             (c) Mandy Williams 2008, from Memento Mori

Mandy Williams is interested in the social dynamics arising from contemporary culture - particularly how personal identity is affected by environment and how our social and affective lives interconnect. In Presence (2001), an exhibition of photography, video and sound, she focused on the conflicting desire to create a home or connection with a stranger balanced by the need for distance and anonymity. In her video, Filler (2003), she explored how empathy is expressed in popular culture and the blurring of private emotion and public display.

Recent exhibition projects include Lost Voices (2010), a photography and sound installation exploring aural memories in abandoned spaces; Home (2009), a photographic series of small paper houses examining damaged homes and broken domesticity, and Memento Mori (2008), text and photographic work exploring Internet memorials and the way we preserve memory. This last project developed into a further photographic series called Re-Collect (2009), about emotion and memory.

In 2011 she had two photographs selected for the RWA Photography exhibition in Bristol, one of which won an award for best original print. Her new video work, Inside was selected for Lightworks festival of new media and sound in March and in June two audio works were selected for the Resonance Open, part of the Gone with the Wind exhibition at Raven Row. Her work has been reviewed as 'sensually and psychologically intriguing' (Asian Art News), possessing 'moments and places of tension because the characters in her work take risks to get there' (Lola Magazine, Toronto).

2012