Tamsin Williams Artist
Portfolio
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Residencies and Commissions
My broad experience as artist in residence is in creating socially-engaged and site-sensitive installations. Residencies are an exploration for me, a way of learning about places through communities. Participants’ interaction and contribution to artworks is an increasingly important part of this process. Places become enlivened with the history and presence of those who know them well. Residencies can be an exchange of knowledge, as well as an intervention in the lives of people who live, work, visit or travel there.
Performances
In 2002 I studied Physical Theatre with Laban-trained Kirstie Seabourne and Miranda and Alister O’Laughin from Nightingale Theatre. I was keen to broaden my practice to include my body and to escape the computer. Until then my work had been largely projection- and installation-based. We studied Theatre de Complicité techniques, Jo Ha Ku rhythms, montage directing and call-and-response soundscapes. We created Dance For Camera films with Mim King, and devised street theatre with Maria Lloyd.
Workshops and Exhibitions
As a multi-skilled artist I have run a variety of successful workshops in Photoshop, printmaking, video and physical theatre for a wide range of user groups. My work has been included in group exhibitions. I have made site-specific installations, and collaborated with a writer and sound artist. Since my background was originally in printmaking I have included one example: a printed book I made in collaboration with my mother on a residency in 1996. This was later exhibited in a church in London.