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Mandy Williams — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:06:47 +0100

Last night was the opening of Photomonth and the private view for our group show, Inter, at Jago Gallery, Redchurch Street. The 4 of us - Linda, Dolores, pi and I - are all showing new work and it's hard to believe it's 18 months since we last worked together. I like what each of them have brought to the show. It's about place as memory, how social or domestic environment is shaped by its physical and emotional interactions. I've produced a series of small paper houses, each with a story to tell. It draws on an idea I had a while ago, but takes it further. It's quite different work to what I've been showing lately but so far the reaction has been positive. The show will be running until 2 November.

Down in SE London, I've currently got work in the dna show, Alchemy, which is part of Deptford X and mid October there's the London Independent Photography exhibition. It's an annual event and the work is selected externally. I'm happy to have had 3 works selected from the 'Re-Collect' series for this and am looking forward to seeing the other work in the exhibition. Here's a link to the exhibition on their website: http://www.londonphotography.org.uk/exhibitions/LIP21Annual/

There are a couple of other shows on the horizon too so a busy time ahead - both continue the Home theme. The first one will be with Linda, Dolores and pi - very different work from Inter - more photo-sculptural and installation. The gallery has a really good lay-out, so it'll be interesting to see how the work develops. The second exhibition, scheduled for later next year, is with 3 other photographers - I like the look of their work and it'll be good to show in this space as the curator seems really well organised and I've liked the focus of their previous exhibitions.
I'll post up more info about it nearer the time ...

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Mandy Williams — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:20:56 +0100

Since the last blog I've been working in the studio on a number of different ideas - one of which will be part of the group show for Photomonth during October. Have also been extending ideas for the Memento Mori series and more general ideas on themes of Home and Memory. It's been great going down there and the end of August/beginning of September will be an intensive period.
There was an arts festival in July near to where I live so I participated in the Visual Arts weekend - was good to meet the other artists and also to show new work for the first time and get positive feedback. Some photographs from the same series were recently published in the London Independent Photography Magazine's 'Collections' issue. I'm feeling encouraged to continue building on this work.

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Mandy Williams — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:51:46 +0100

Today I took over a new studio. Having been used to working from home this is an exciting change for me. The building is nearby and has over 40 studios - mine is small, but with great natural light and views.

A few essentials got moved in today but not too much - it's going to be a place for experimenting and trying new things and I'll need all the space there is.

Have been framing some work for a group show in Hull - three photographs will be going into a text based exhibition next month which has been curated to coincide with the Humberside Literature Festival.

It's good to be showing new work and it'll be interesting to see what else is in the show. I'm also working with Linda, pi and Dolores on a show for the autumn - it's a different venue to the one we had originally planned. We're now in a space in East London which we'll have for a whole month, and we've postponed showing in the other gallery in South London until early 2010. Both shows will be mainly photography but with 3D work as well. Lots of other ideas being talked about - more to follow ...

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Mandy Williams — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:27:10 +0000

A small update. It's been a busy start to 2009 - more photography and more project ideas. In early January I was contacted by the director of a gallery in west London and offered representation which was a nice surprise. They had seen some of my work on the South London Women Artists website. It's not an exclusive contract which appeals right now and they seem to be friendly and proactive in how they run their business so it will be interesting to see what happens.

Linda, Dolores, pi and myself have also been meeting up and working on ideas for a group exhibition this autumn as well as some other projects. We are combining our interests in photography, sculpture and installation. We were pleased to have a positive response to our proposal from a gallery that we had contacted and it's an interesting space. We plan to create new work in response to the space as we did with Forensic.

Here's an installation shot from Forensic which was in a massive warehouse in South London.

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Mandy Williams — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:58:12 +0000

The twins, Alex and Alan da Silva