Bryden Williams (b. 1990) is a conceptual artist working across the fields of sculpture, video, photography and installation art. He lives and works in Sydney and is currently an MFA candidate at Sydney College of the Arts.
Williams’ work is concerned with themes of decay and preservation, organic and artificial duality, the sublime in nature and technology and the containment of space, objects and time within man-made and natural environments. Williams is a recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award and in 2016 he received a Fauvette Memorial Artists Exchange Scholarship. Williams has exhibited in Australia and abroad, most recently with the solo exhibition Site Specifics at Interlude Gallery, Sydney in February 2016. Previously Williams was also included in the 2013 John Fries Award with the work Techno Fire, and received the inaugural Chippendale New World Art Prize in 2013, spending three months abroad making and exhibiting work as resident at Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. Throughout the residency Williams furthered his ongoing interest in the aesthetic and environmental implications of hydro-electricity, creating a screen work based on the Three Gorges Dam and a body of found object sculptures.
In 2015 Williams received a NSW Artists Grant for the project Hydro-Wilderness, which involved undertaking a two-week residency at The Bogong Centre for Sound Culture in Victoria’s Bogong National Park. Following this focussed output on rivers, Hydro-Wilderness is a culmination of Williams’ artistic inquiry into water.
This project is supported by Arts NSW’s NSW Artists’ Grant Scheme, a devolved funding program administered by the National Association of the Visual Arts on behalf of the NSW GovernmentThanks also go to Madelynne Cornish and Philip Samartzis from the Bogong Centre of Sound Culture.
