image1.jpg (28394 bytes) PETE WILLIAMS BIOGRAPHY


Peter Edward Williams

Alternative Printmaker

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Commissions

The Band Stand Project, Queens Street, Cardiff for the European Summit held in June, commissioned by Cardiff Bay Arts Trust and the Cardiff County

Council

1992-1994 Completed several Murals for patrons within the East Sussex area

1991 'The Festival of Japan’, Hyde Park, London, 'Nebuta' Float in conjunction with Japanese artists and British Museum of Mankind

1990 Mural for Brighton Festival, 'Curtains Up...New Europe!' in conjunction with Maze Gallery, Brighton

1989 Cheltenham Festival of Music. Two Town Hall Banners (25 x I0ft)

To hang outside the City Hall

Residencies / Teaching Experience

1998 University of Wales Swansea ‘Artists in Residence’. An eight week placement working both on and off site with 16+ youth groups and adults

The Northern Print Studio, North Shields (invitation to work and interact with fellow printmakers)

1997-8 The Print Market Workshop Chapter Cardiff

Specialising in Acrylic resist etching and Water based silk-screen

Print Market Workshops:

Llanover Hall Arts Centre Cardiff

Cardiff Bay Arts Trust (Art in the Bay)

Portsmouth Printmakers

Birmingham Print Workshop

The Northern Print Studio, North Shields (two week exchange programme,) in connection with the Arts Council of Wales

Swansea Print Workshop, Swansea

Howells Independent School, Cardiff

St.Iiytyds school, Cardiff

Brynteg School, Bridgend

Gurnhos and Penrhos Primary Schools, Swansea Valley

Visiting Lecturer at: Stroud School of Art and Design, The Royal Forest of Dean College and Llandover Hall Arts Centre, Cardiff.

1996 Part-time Lecturer, Fareham Tertiary College, Hants.

Visiting Lecturer, Alton College, Hampshire

1995-6 Resident Printmaker appointed to set up and run Chapel Print Workshop for Art Space Portsmouth Education

Portsmouth Print Workshops:

Aspex Gallery / Art Space Portsmouth; Buckland Community Centre; St Edmunds Catholic School; Northern Parade Junior School; City of Portsmouth Girls School; Portsmouth Arts Centre - Summer Arts Across Portsmouth

1995 Visiting Lecturer, Northbrook College of H/E, Worthing, Sussex

Artist-in-residence, Oathall Community College, Haywards Health, West Sussex

1991-1994 Visiting Lecturer, Gloucester College of Arts & Technology and Bath University:

BA Hon’s Fine Art Printmaking

1991 Bevendean First School, Brighton

Kennyton Manor First & Middle School, Middlesex

 

Part-time Exhibition co-ordinator

The 'Brava Gallery' Cardiff. Wales

One / Two Person Shows

1998 Cafe' Brava, Cardiff. 'The Bandstand Project in the making'

1994 Henrietta House, Westminster, London, 'Recent Works' - Printmaking

Grande Cafe, Den Haag, Holland, 'New Works on Show' - Sculpture and Prints

1990 The Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden, London, 'Relative Art' Paintings and Prints

Exhibitions Group Shows

1997 New Artist at the Albany, Albany Gallery, Cardiff

1996 Organised and curated, 'Inkwell' an exhibition of work by the artists of the Chapel Print Workshop, Artspace, Portsmouth

1993 The Turtle Keys Art Centre, Fulham. London

1992 The Practlx Gallery, Bristol, 'Brighton to Bristol' - Paintings and Prints

1991-1992 Brighton Printmakers Festival - Printmaking

1991 The Business Design Centre, London, 'Fresh Art'

1990 The Maze Gallery, Brighton, 'Art for Liver Aid'

Brighton Pavilion Museum & Art Gallery, 'The New Sussex Artists & Photographers' Exhibition

Prema Arts Centre, Gloucester, 'Blood, Sweat and Ink' - Printmaking

1989 Pelter-Sands Gallery, Bristol. '12 Graduates' - Paintings,

Sculpture and Prints

Bristol Polytechnic, National Student Printmaking Exhibitions

1988 VI Blenniale International de Gravure, Digne-les-Bains, France

Selected Prizes and Sponsorship

1997- 1998 Grants received:

Arts Council of Wales: setting up The Print Market Workshop, Cardiff

Cardiff City Council: Capital and marketing for the P.M.W/shop.

1995-1996 Hampshire County Council and Portsmouth City Council for the setting up and running of the now established 'Chapel Print Workshop' in conjunction with Artspace Portsmouth Ltd

1994 Recent sponsorship by: Nationale-Nederlanden 'ERCO' Erco Lighting Company, Start International Centres for the Arts

BBC Radio Sussex interviewed by Stuart Mackintosh re: London Show

1989 Sponsorship in kind from 'John Purcell Papers', London

Prize awarded for Technical Merit, Print by Ana Maria Pacheo

1988 Gloucester College of Arts & Technology, Print Bursary awarded. Travelled and studied in Barcelona, Spain.

Cheltenham School of Art and Design Award. Six-week exchange spent studying drawing and printmaking in Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Lyons, France.

Gallery Collections

The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

The Merz Gallery, Earls Court, London - until 1995

The Splinter Gallery, London

Education

1989-1991 Brighton University, Post-graduate Diploma Fine Art Printmaking

1986-1989 Gloucester College of Arts & Technology, BA Hons 2:1

Fine Art Printmaking

1985-1986 Studied and worked in North Cornwall

1984-1985 West Surrey College of Art & Design Foundation

1981-1983 Spelthome VIth Form College, Middlesex: 6 GCE '0'Levels

1GCE 'A' Level

 

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The Print Market Workshop

For further details please contact;
Pete Williams or Lou Thornton on 01222 394999
The Print Market Workshop,Chapter,Studio 19
Market House,Market Road,Canton,Cardiff,CF5 1QE.

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