bryden williams

I am showing in a survey exhibition of recent Higher Degree by Research recipients from Sydney College of the Arts, titled New Contemporaries.

The exhibition features Tracey Clement, Szymon Dorabialski (colleague & housemate), Suzy Faiz, Marta Ferracin, Chris Fox, Kath Fries, Paul Greedy, Melissa Harvey, Emma Hicks, Harley Ives, Brooke Leigh, Markela Panegyres, Zoe Marni Robertson & yours truly.

New Contemporaries opens Wed 2nd May at 6pm.

The show runs 3rd May - 2nd June 2018 at SCA Gallery  

SCA Gallery is located at:

Sydney College of the Arts Balmain Road, Rozelle (enter opposite Cecily Street)

KANDOS RESIDENCY Hello everyone! At the moment I am doing a micro-residency at wonderful Kandos - developing new ideas, staring at the horizon and so forth. I will present my work and research at Cementa ‘19 , a biannual contemporary arts festival. I’ll keep you posted throughout the residency. Here is one picture overlooking Kandos, taken from Cumber Melon Mountain. And another, looking Northwards over the Kandos Cement Factory. 

My collaborative work ‘The Reckoning’, made with Sydney based Interlude Gallery writer Molly Morphew, is included in Language Disorder III among seven collaborative projects from Sydney and Mexico-based artists and writers. 

7th December - 15th December, 2017

Interlude Gallery is located at 11/131-145 Glebe Point Rd. 2037 Sydney, Australia

The Reckoning (still), Molly Morphew & Bryden Williams, HD video 5:22 minutes, 2017. Contains an excerpt of ‘Fog’ by Australian composer J Dale Pearson.

Promotional poster for Language Disorder III

Interlude is hosting a Live Auction featuring a variety of works from local and international artists. I have ‘River Detritus (australian standard campfire)’ up for auction!

• Opening: Thursday 2nd Nov 6-9pm Live Auction from 7pm •

Interlude Gallery opened to the public in 2015, and has since been running as a non-for-profit organism, depending on the invaluable support and participation from the Sydney arts community, and their dynamic group of national and international collaborators and contributors.

By the end of 2017 Interlude will have presented 57 solo and groups exhibitions, bringing together artists and writers from around the globe with a focus on experimentation and collaboration.

In what will be their third annual fundraising auction, Interlude presents selected works from their Australian; US & Mexican based artists, alongside other invited participants. The live auction will be a one night only event open to the public, with all funds directed to the artists and Interlude Gallery’s 2018 program.

• Featuring Interlude Artists:

Davis Birks Julien Bowman Apolonia Dorabialski Mónica Escutia Megan Hales Hana Hoogedeure Kaspar Kägi Honey Long Mevna Laura Meza Orozco Helen Shelly Kai Wasikowski Avery Wheless Bryden Williams

+ Guest Artists:

Dean Cross Dylan Batty Kuba Dorabialski Szymon Dorabialski Georgia Emslie Adrian De Giorgio Talitha Kennedy Holly Macdonald Luke O’Connor Katy B Plummer Madeleine Preston Daniel Soma Agus Wijaya

And more to be confirmed… •

Email [email protected] to request a full catalogue of works.

Kindly sponsored by Poor Toms Gin

Interlude Gallery is located at:

SCA Grad Show 

September 2017

This month I am facing completion of the Masters of Fine Arts degree. After two and a half years of research in Rozelle, a residency in the Bogong National Park, exchange in Germany and resistance against the neoliberalisation of a brilliant institution, my thesis is finished (!) and the examination work is almost installed. 

Opening Thursday at 6pm with drinks and nibblies, I am joining the twelve MFA and PhD candidates who are presenting their work in a public graduate exhibition, being held at SCA Galleries.

Video installation. Fire. Water. 

Please pop by if you’re in Sydney !

SCA Galleries is located at:

Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Kirkbride Way, off Park Drive, Lilyfield, NSW (enter opposite Cecily Street)

The exhibition runs 6-9pm Thursday 21st, open 11-5pm Friday and 11-4pm Saturday.

As part of the Sydney Contemporary 2017 Public Program, Interlude Gallery will be presenting ‘Intermural’, a showcase of painting, sculpture, video, installation and performance art.

Featuring:

Hana Hoogedeure

Kaspar Kägi

Bryden Williams

Chris Sutevski

Luke O’Donnell

Apolonia Dorabialski

I’ll be displaying a video ‘Outdoors’ and a re-worked sculpture ‘River Detritus (australian standard campfire)’ for the occasion.

‘Outdoors’ is an audio-visual exploration of a series of landscape mirages. Sydney’s venue, Carriageworks becomes a staging ground for Australian landscape apparitions, superimposing footage captured during bushwalks in the Gardens of Stone National Park, NSW, and the Bogong National Park, Victoria. Accompanying ‘Outdoors’ is ‘River Detritus (australian standard campfire)’ – a sculptural exploration of interrupted thermal matter, melding concrete with campfire in an obelisk form.

Opening Night Cocktail Soirée: Saturday 9th September 7 - 9pm

Exhibition runs from 5th - 16th of September

Location: Interlude Gallery, 11/131-145 Glebe Point Rd. Glebe.

For more info visit www.interludegallery.com or email [email protected]

Firstdraft are having a fundraising auction on September 1st. Apparently, this year over 100 artworks are up for auction. 

..from ‘Australia’s most exciting and collectable artists’ no less !

For the occasion, I’m making a cast concrete piece derived from my ‘River Detritus’ (2016) series - a sculptural exploration of interrupted campfires. It will be a single edition piece, similar to the one pictured. 

Buy up some arts, and support the longest running ARI in Aus.

6 – 9pm Friday 1 September, 2017 Live Auction starts at 7pm

For more details contact: [email protected] or phone (02) 8970 2999

Firstdraft 13-17 Riley Street Woolloomooloo, 2011

In September I’ll be participating in Sydney Contemporary’s official program. My work ‘Streetlamp above River’ (2016) is included as part of Interlude Gallery’s curated takeover of Kinokuniya’s Wedge Space.

A street lamp negotiates unusual territory in a documented foray aside a river on the western edges of the Blue Mountains. ‘Streetlamp above River’ appeared in ‘Site-Specifics’ (Feb 2016) at Interlude Gallery. For this group show, I will exhibit unseen video of the river-side intervention along with the mercury vapour lamp itself. Alongside fellow Interlude Gallery artists Chris Sutevski ad Szymon Dorabialski, our exhibition of ‘idiosyncratic installation and video’ will be open for the entire duration of September as part of the Sydney Contemporary Program. 

The exhibition opens September 1st, running until Sep 30th, 2017.

The Sydney Contemporary Art Fair runs 7th - 10th September at Carriageworks.

Kinokuniya is at: Level 2, The Galeries 500 George Street (opposite QVB) Sydney NSW 2000

Hey everyone ! 

A bit of news about my time in berlin. I’ve been lucky enough to have been offered an exhibition at an artist run space in Lichtenburg called KASKL (Kaskl Gallery).

This will be a short showing of new video, sound and installation work that I have been working on while here in Berlin. The exhibition explores the assembling of pieces of family history pertaining to the fate of my great uncle Eric Douglas Williams who perished in Germany during the events of World War II under his role as a fighter pilot for the RAF.

I’m looking forward to putting the work out there and also building on some concepts I’ve been developing while doing the 2016-17 winter exchange programme at UDK, Berlin. Hopefully these works will lead in to a furthering of this project and that will include travelling to the crash site of great uncle Eric and his crew’s Whitley Bomber, which actually lay submerged in a polder for ten years before the plane and the bodies were recovered.

Opening Thurs 16th Feb, 2017

Exhibition continues Sat 18th - Sun 19th

First blog post of 2017! !   !      !          !

I’m writing this from Germany, where I’m three months in to a winter exchange program at Berlin’s Universität der Kunste.

In this picture my friend Billie and I are boating on the icy blue waters of an old open-cut mine in Czech Republic. This particular site, Lom Kosov, is one a many abandoned mines across Europe that are now filled with mineral rich water (thus the deep blue colour). In the summer people swim here. In winter, it’s pretty miserable. However, we got to take the blow up raft out for a trip. The raft, The Excursion 5, was salvaged from the streets of Neukölln. So far it’s been on the Spree, up a few canals and since this trip to Czech it needs a few patchups before it can be taken out again (not sure where..)

My new work “ The Last Morning at Home” at Birds Hut HOME on the weekend. 

“This work addresses the hauntings of my old family home in Megalong Valley.

After 20 years at ‘Kelgoola’, the property was sold. We moved all our possessions out of the house and burnt the things we didn't want anymore. All that remained was the old fridge. This is a homage to the house, the land, and the countless hours listening to the gentle sounds of the old DC Lemair fridge.”

G’day all ! 

Here’s a link to the webpage of Sydney’s Firstdraft gallery, where I’ll be exhibiting in May with my solo exhibition Hydro-Wilderness.