Deb K Williams

I was a recipient of a Making Space grant from the Moreland Council. I used this opportunity to explore the process of reconstituting locally sourced clay found near my home. I created a series of small clay works that reflected my interest in Melrose Ware, the domestic table ware that was created in the ‘art pottery division’ of The Hoffman Brick, Tile and Pottery Company, in Brunswick during the 1930’s. Melrose Ware extensively used indigenous flora and fauna motifs as decorative elements in the work.

An exhibition with Sandra Tobias. Textiles and drawings. Deb K Williams responds to the connection between various textile processes and drawing, and the contemplative, meditative nature of these activities. Using graphite, natural dyes, inks, acrylics and collaged felt, silk and cotton, the works reflect an interest in hybrid forms and more broadly the delights and strangeness of the natural world. Much of the work attempts to evoke the forms and textures of nature and increasingly issues of sustainability, ecology and inter-connectedness are examined. The embroidered ‘maps’ reflect upon the increasingly dense and vaguely toxic urban environments of inner cities, where the routes to greener spaces are ever diminishing but increasingly necessary. The graphite drawings form part of a larger body of work that reinterprets a personal archive of actual and imagined landscape images. They are maps of imaginary but familiar worlds and respond to memory, atmosphere and place.

 Making Space 2021- Moreland Council Grant. I was a recipient of a Making Space grant from the Moreland Council. I used this opportunity to explore the process of reconstituting locally sourced clay found near my home. I created a series of small clay works that will form part of an installation reflecting my interest in mapping the laneways and verge gardens in my local area.  The works were bisque fired at Northcote Pottery Supplies, Weston Street, Brunswick. 

A group show at 33 Tinning Street, Brunswick.   Art work by Deb K Williams, Sandra Tobias and Natasha Boerer.  The textile works reflect my interest in hybrid forms and more broadly the delights and strangeness of the natural world.  The drawings form part of a larger body of work, that reinterprets a personal archive of actual and imagined landscape images. They respond to the notion of being lost in the flow and are a map of an imaginary but familiar world.

Solitude and Solace Solitary walks during the winter months throughout the streets of Brunswick and Royal Park are the basis for these small intimate embroideries. 'A Foggy day in Brunswick' are two imaginary maps depicting dense urban environments with possible routes to greener spaces.  Pale winter mists dampen the laneways and solace is found in the majesty of trees.  Embroidery thread and mesh. Both embroideries are 10 cm x 10 cm. 

Slow Territory responds to the connection between stitching, weaving and drawing, and the contemplative, meditative nature of these activities. Using natural dyes, inks, acrylics,  and collaged felt, silk and cotton, the works respond to a range of natural processes such as the cycle of rehydration and evaporation found within salt lakes, tidal drawings of bush fire ash on coastal areas and verdant growth on lava rocks.   Notions of distilling an atmosphere of place are explored and the works form a map of remembrance and meditative intent.