01/09/2026
📆 Date for the Diary 📆
Guild member Nigel Williams has been offered an exhibition at Prema Arts Centre in Uley (near Dursley) from Wednesday 16 September until Saturday 24th October.
The exhibition will include some of Nigel's usual copper and brass sculptures previously seen at Guild exhibitions at Rodmarton, but the main feature will be a new tranche of quite different work created mostly this year which Nigel has entitled 'Organic Inorganic'.
After decades of photographing "developed surfaces" (i.e. artifacts that started life with boring plain surfaces, but over the years "developed"
into something much more interesting), the next logical step seemed to be to mount their images in "frames" which exhibited similar surface characteristics.
Nigel has been making work along these lines for about 15 years, but is particular pleased with this latest batch, because the images have all been printed directly onto aluminium dibond, which (apart from being diabolically expensive!) really makes these extraordinarily-detailed and heavily-manipulated photographs jump straight off the wall.
The results are quite startling, imparting a very successful illusion of depth and intrigue to images that are often very abstract and inscrutable. The "sympathetic" 3-dimensional frame structures are constructed from oxidised and re-oxidised steel, with added features and details, including following the details in the images in some cases.
