Phil Aston Williams

Phil Aston Williams’ practice focuses on developing innovative methods of image construction. Pragmatic transformations of painterly techniques lent through ideas born of other media and technology. Fracturing conventional and stagnant ways of seeing, he uses elements of play, kitsch and psychedelia to celebrate and lighten the intensity and parable like foundations of experimental and non-representational painting. His incorporation of figuration and line weave narrative and emotion. In particular Pop imagery emphasizes a simplified idealism and transient lifespan which he finds akin to abstraction’s refined notions of the ephemeral and absolute.

Williams is a Sydney based artist having held numerous solo and group exhibitions at commercial and artist run galleries across Australia. His work is held in the Artbank collection and a number of private collections in Sydney, Brisbane, London and Basel. He has just returned to Sydney from a research period in Berlin and has previously been the resident artist at Hafnarborg Contemporary Art Gallery, Hafnarfjordur Iceland, Bundanon in the NSW Shaolhaven and the Frasers Queen Street Studios on Broadway in Sydney.

Previous exhibitions

>> Face Apart 2 // 15th February – 2nd March, 2013
>> Face Apart // 16th February – 3rd March, 2012