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.
Return to company, 2023
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oil, acrylic and pigment on canvas
184 x 191 cm / 72 7/16 x 75 3/16 inchesNew World Libertines, 2022
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oil on canvas
184.5 x 193 cm / 72 5/8 x 76 inchesCaptive Audience, 2022
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oil on canvas
193 x 208 cm / 76 x 81 7/8 inchesThe 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 inchesWaiting, Changing, Floating, Sitting, 2022
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oil and acrylic on canvas
179 x 148 cm / 70 7/16 x 58 1/4 inchesWhite 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 inchesMan, pot, cat, 2021
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oil on canvas
132 x 122 cm / 51 15/16 x 48 inchesA visit to the enclave, 2021
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oil on canvas
197 x 261 cm / 77 9/16 x 102 3/4 inchesIf 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 inchesIt 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 inchesScorpion 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 inchesThey 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 inchesHeld tightly (grey), 2020
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oil on canvas
46.5 x 30.5 cm / 18 5/16 x 12 inchesBaba Desi, 2019
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oil on canvas
160 x 120 cm / 63 x 47 1/4 inchesBegin Again, 2019
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oil on canvas
40 x 31 cm / 15 3/4 x 12 3/16 inches