| He makes and uses videos, photography, performance, drawing, text and the occasional stand up comedy and karaoke. He has created a number of events that are whole environments. Through this broad range of media, a strong sense of surrealistic humour and a sharp critical mind, he explores notions of what it means to be an artist born and currently living and working in north Wales. He makes work relevant to a sense of place and belonging but simultaneously refuses to be compromised or pigeon-holed by provincial tastes or stereotypes.
He has just been awarded the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Art 2004 and has featured recently in a Guardian article by Adrian Searle in which he identified Bedwyr as one of seven artists in the UK who will be developing an international profile. Recent projects and exhibitions include Operation Ferrule, Ffotogallery, Cardiff; Romantic Detachment, Grizedale Arts/PS1 New York and Tyranny of the Meek, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
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| Bedwyr Williams
1974 Born in St Asaph, Wales
1993-94 Coleg Menai, Bangor, Wales, Arts Foundation Diploma
1994-97 Central St Martins School of Art, London, England, BA Fine Art Hons
1998-99 Ateliers Arnhem, Netherlands, Dutch equivalent MA
Lives and works in Rhostryfan near Caernarfon, north Wales
Solo Exhibitions
2004 Tyranny of the Meek, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales
2001 Talwrn Celf/Art Cockpit Performance for Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales, National Eisteddfod, Denbigh 2001
Operation Ferrule, Ffotogallery, Cardiff. Exhibition toured venues in Wales
1997 Sociable Realism (performance), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Over & Over, Again & Again, Contemporary Arts Centres, Vilnius, Lithuania
2004 Romantic Detachment, Grizedale Arts, England /PS1, New York, USA
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales and Q Gallery, Derby, England
Now Then, Now Then, International 3, Manchester, England
Summer Invitational, FA Projects, London, England
2003 Appropos of Nothing, G39, Cardiff, Wales
Lets Get Married Today, Grizedale Arts, England
Blaenau Vista Social Club, Grizedale Arts Roadshow
Anglo Ponce, The Trade Appartment, Brixton, London, England
2001 Faith in Fakes, The Place, England
Young Wales, The Cambrian Academy, Conwy, Wales
1999 Game Set Match, W139 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Backdoor, Eagles Nest, London, England
1998 Box Clever de fabriek, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1997 Theft, The Rose and Punchbowl, London, England
Finger de Buffet, Central St Martins, London, England
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