Justin Williams

Justin Williams (b. 1984) produces contemporary figurative and representative artworks that focus on community, migration and modes of living. Rendered in murky oil paints and thin washes of colour, Williams’s figures and landscapes appear to hover above the canvas as they glow from within. In these artworks, the artist attempts to depict both the transitions of his grandparents’ migration from Egypt to Australia, and also his own outsider perspective towards both notions of place and time as well as hidden normalities within a group or individual. Williams views his own bloodline as something he is inherently close to but conversely was not directly exposed to and thus a distant or even historical viewpoint is enlisted.

They became park bench observers, 2020-2021
oil and pigment on canvas
170 x 210 cm / 66 15/16 x 82 11/16 inches
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Oswald on white horse, 2020
oil on canvas
142.5 x 123.5 cm / 56 3/16 x 48 5/8 inches
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Wolfhound interior, 2020
oil on canvas
142.5 x 123.5 / 56 3/16 x 48 5/8 inches
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Held tightly (grey), 2020
oil on canvas
46.5 x 30.5 cm / 18 5/16 x 12 inches
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Follow, 2020
Oil and pigments on raw canvas
170 x 230 cm / 66 15/16 x 90 9/16 inches
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Shadow, 2020
oil and pigment on raw canvas
140 x 130 cm / 55 1/8 x 51 3/16 inches
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The trap I set for you, has caught my leg insteaad, 2020
oil and pigments on raw canvas
150 x 157.5 cm / 59 1/16 x 62 inches
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Guided by domestic voices, 2019
oil on canvas
170 x 140 cm / 66 15/16 x 55 1/8 inches
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Baba Desi, 2019
oil on canvas
160 x 120 cm / 63 x 47 1/4 inches
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Begin Again, 2019
oil on canvas
40 x 31 cm / 15 3/4 x 12 3/16 inches
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Anubis and Rose, 2019
oil on canvas
97 x 84 cm / 38 3/16 x 33 1/16 inches
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Baptism, 2019
oil on canvas
200 x 152 cm / 78 3/4 x 59 13/16 inches
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Float, 2019
oil on canvas
200 x 152 cm / 78 3/4 x 59 13/16 inches
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Crowd, 2019
oil on canvas
144 x 123 cm / 56 11/16 x 48 7/16
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Portrait of Leah Hirsig, 2019
oil on canvas
130 x 110 cm / 51 3/16 x 43 5/16
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Walk don't run, 2019
oil on canvas
150 x 100 cm / 59 1/16 x 39 3/8
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