Opening on 17th June at Gallery 7 – Pie Factory, 7 Broad St, Margate CT9 1EW; River Stories, Unseen Landscapes is an exhibition by London-based artist Mandy Williams. Work on display will be taken from her Riverbed Stories photographs and video which document the riverbeds beside the industrial areas of Erith, South London and Dartford, Kent, and show the environmental damage to these places of natural beauty. Williams will also be showing for the first time some photographs from Unseen Landscapes, which use Google StreetView as a starting point to create somewhere otherworldly.

Press Release

River Stories, Unseen Landscapes

Solo exhibition – Mandy Williams

Gallery 7 – Pie Factory, 7 Broad St, Margate CT9 1EW

Friday 17 – Wednesday 22 June, 11am – 5pm (Sunday 19 June 12 – 4pm)

River Stories, Unseen Landscapes is an exhibition by London artist Mandy Williams. Work on display will be taken from her Riverbed Stories photographs and video which document the riverbeds beside the industrial areas of Erith, South London and Dartford, Kent, and show the environmental damage to these places of natural beauty. Photographs from this series have previously been shown at the RWA Bristol, Kinsale Arts Festival, Ireland, and the Deptford X Fringe, London, and her video was recently shortlisted for the British Women’s Artist award 2016. She will also be showing for the first time some photographs from Unseen Landscapes which use Google StreetView as a starting point to create somewhere otherworldly.

Williams has created beautifully crafted portraits of the land which also prompt the viewer to think about their own interaction and connection with the world around them, Cary Benbow, Editor, Wobneb Magazine, March 2016

Williams’ photography and video often refers to place and specifically sites in transition. Her interest in the psychology of place has been a catalyst for both autobiographical and voyeuristic projects, documentary approaches to more conceptual ones. Her photography of the environment is rarely passive, but shares an underlying narrative about human interaction or presence.

Show opens 17 June. Artist will be in residence 17, 18, 20, 21, 22 June 11am – 5pm

Artist info

Mandy Williams studied art history at Warwick and Communications (Film) at Goldsmith’s. She lived in Vancouver, Canada for several years, and was represented by a commercial gallery where she had solo exhibitions of photographic and video works, as well as exhibiting in artist-run and public galleries across Canada and the United States. She was awarded a visual arts grant from the Canada Council and had work purchased by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Since returning to London she has exhibited in various group exhibitions including the London Art Fair, Royal West of England Academy, where she won the prize for photography in 2014 and was a shortlisted Academician candidate in 2015, National Open Art at Somerset House and Royal College of Art, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Deptford X, Kinsale Arts Festival, Ireland, and Raven Row, London. She had a solo exhibition, Waiting for You, at House Gallery, London in 2013. Her videos have been screened internationally at ATA San Francisco, Discovering Borderlands, Moscow, Athens Video Art Festival, Cairo Video Festival, The International Streaming Festival of Audio Visual Art, The Hague, and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA.

www.mandywilliams.com / [email protected] / 07817 397 747

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