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.
New World Libertines, 2022
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oil on canvas
184.5 x 193 cm / 72 5/8 x 76 inches
Captive Audience, 2022
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oil on canvas
193 x 208 cm / 76 x 81 7/8 inches
The time between morning and noon, we put plastic bags over the lemon tree, 2022
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oil acrylic and pigment on canvas
140 x 115 cm / 55 1/8 x 45 5/16 inches
Waiting, Changing, Floating, Sitting, 2022
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oil and acrylic on canvas
179 x 148 cm / 70 7/16 x 58 1/4 inches
White quilled peacefully settled, 2022
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oil, acrylic and pigment on canvas
97.5 x 112 cm / 38 3/8 x 44 1/16 inches
Man, pot, cat, 2021
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oil on canvas
132 x 122 cm / 51 15/16 x 48 inches
A visit to the enclave, 2021
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oil on canvas
197 x 261 cm / 77 9/16 x 102 3/4 inches
If the water was a shell and the land was the back of my hand, then we can all move forward, 2021
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oil on canvas
132 x 122 cm / 51 15/16 x 48 inches
It takes a steady hand to navigate open waters, 2021
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oil on canvas
197.5 x 255 cm / 77 3/4 x 100 3/8 inches
Scorpion bites and shoes from cuba, 2021
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oil on canvas
195.5 x 204 cm / 76 15/16 x 80 5/16 inches
They became park bench observers, 2020-2021
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oil and pigment on canvas
170 x 210 cm / 66 15/16 x 82 11/16 inches
Held tightly (grey), 2020
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oil on canvas
46.5 x 30.5 cm / 18 5/16 x 12 inches
Baba Desi, 2019
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oil on canvas
160 x 120 cm / 63 x 47 1/4 inches
Begin Again, 2019
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oil on canvas
40 x 31 cm / 15 3/4 x 12 3/16 inches
Justin Williams
Drowning Men Are Supposed To, 26 November, 2021 - 13 January, 2022
Justin Williams
Earth Rots Underfoot, 16 April, 2021 - 15 May, 2021
Justin Williams
Crushed Bone / Wet Rock, 2 October, 2020 - 7 November, 2020
Justin Williams
Before ’84, 19 October, 2019 - 23 November, 2019
