Bard Attitude

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, 100 Parliament Street

Bedwyr Williams was born in St Asaph, North Wales, 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 received the Derek Williams Trust Purchase Award in association with Artes Mundi in 2017 and represented Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2013. Solo shows include Do the Little Things, Ancient Connections, Ferns, County Wexford and St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, UK (2022); THE SEE WALL, East Quay, Watchet, UK (2022); Milquetoast, Southwark Park Galleries, London, touring to Ty? Pawb, Wrexham, Wales and KARST, Plymouth (2021); Hypercaust / Y Tyrrau Mawr (The Big Towers), Southard Reid, London, UK (2019); ECHT, Tramway, Glasgow International, Scotland (2014) and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2017). His work has been included in many institutional group shows including at Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2022); Somerset House, London (2021 - 22); South London Gallery, London (2018); Hayward Gallery touring to Concrete, Dubai (2018); ICA Singapore (2017); and The British Art Show 8 .

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