Artist CV

(b 1974GB. Lives and works in Brixham)

Will's recent practice has focused on creating objects and drawings through the development of self- built machinery.  It is a practice grounded in learning by doing, and thinking through making. "In this work, material, machine, and maker, each take their turn in leading or resisting outcomes. The improvised machines or tools fall short of their tasks and are refined, or these failures point in new directions to be explored".

2020

SILO.  FOLD Gallery, London.  

2019

Low Tide.  Coleman Project Space, London.  

Rotations.  Saloni Projects, London.  

2018

Push and Pull.  Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. 

2012

Swing Time.  Studio 1.1, London.  

2011

Everything.  Studio 1.2, Haarlem, Netherlands. 

Anything.  Festival Cement.  Maastricht, Netherlands. 

2009

Combine.  Studio 1.1, London.

2008

Columbo.  Coleman Projects, London.

Wheelbarrow Piano.  Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, Ireland. 

2007

The Shampoo.  Studio 1.1, London.

2004

Projects.  Rosy Wilde Gallery, London.  

1998

JUST.  SOAP Gallery, Kokura, Kitakyushu-shi, Japan. 

2020

Washing Line.  Thames-Side Gallery, London. 

Mark-Making in Textile.  Gallery X, Royal Academy, London.  

Parade.  Broadway Gallery, Letchworth.  

Entre Amis Deux.  French Riviera, London.  

2019

Amalgamation.  Cello Factory, London.  

Object Meditation.  After Nyne Gallery, London.  

Open Construction.  Saturation Point, Barking.  

Uptwist Downtwist.  Ty Pawb, Wrexham, Wales.  

Harder Edge.  Saatchi Gallery, London.  

2017

Between Things, The Minories Galleries, Colchester, Essex. 

2015

Creekside Open. APT Gallery. London. 

2014

Two showers.  Supernormal, Oxfordshire.  

2013

Grand Magasin.  French Riviera Gallery.  London.  

Two showers.  Supernormal Festival.  Braziers Park.  

2012

Swing Harmonograph.  Kunstvlaai,  Amsterdam.  

Members Show.  Outpost Gallery, Norwich.  

2011

Les Televisions.  French Riviera, London.  

Exhaustion and Exhuberance.  Eastside Projects, Birmingham. 

Working Title.  Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.  

Shelter with balls.  Supernormal.  Braziers Park.  

Small Scale Survival.  Aid & Abet.  Cambridge. 

2010

Two Pavillions.  Supernormal.  Braziers Park. 

Jetty.  The Boathouse.  Port Eliot Festival. 

Dorm.  The Model,  Sligo, Ireland.    

The Bird Scarer.  Piggotts Farm, Essex.   

No Soul For Sale.  Tate Modern, London.  

2009

Institute for objective measurement.  August Art.  

The Silo.  Piggotts Farm, Essex.   

A Pair of Fires.  Port Eliot Festival. Cornwall.  

An inquiry into (the/a/-) disruption of creativity.  Waterside Project Space. 

Survey.  Standpoint Gallery, London.  

2007

The Hot Chocolate Machine.  Zhongdian, Yunnan, China.   

Flying Bike.  Golden Dragon Street Studios, Zhongdian, Yunnan, China.  

Sausage Trees.  Coleman Project Space, London.  

The Boring English Countryside.  August Art, London.  

Grotto.  Studio 1.1, London.  

2006

Mixed Pickles – Overloaded.  K3 Project Space, Zurich.  

Make Believe.  Shillam+Smith, London.  

Supertankers.  August Art, London. 

2004

Grotto II.  Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, USA.  

2003

Ergo thus.  Martinez Gallery, Brooklyn, USA.   

Chockerfuckingblocked.  Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London.

2002

Balmy Daze.  Houldsworth, London.  

Out of Place.  Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery. 

2001

Food Hall.  Houldsworth, London. 

2018-2019

Arts Council England.  DYCP award for studio research. 

2010-2014

Artist in Residence, Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire.  

2011

Working Title Residency.  Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.  

2008

Artist in Residence, Coleman Project Space, London.  

2007

Arts Council England International Artists Fellowship, initiated by Braziers International Artists Workshop.  Lijiang Studios/Golden Dragon Street Studios, Zhongdian, Yunnan Province, China.  Residency.  

2006

Braziers International Artists Workshop. Braziers Park, Oxfordshire.  

1994-1997 

Manchester Metropolitan University, BA(Hons)  Fine Art (Sculpture)