Artist Profile - Pierre Williams

Four Searted Male Nudes (black & white ceramic approximatly 75cm in height) £2400 plus delivery
Four Searted Male Nudes (black & white ceramic approximatly 75cm in height) £2400 plus delivery

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Biography
Artist Statement

Four Searted Male Nudes (black & white ceramic approximatly 75cm in height) £2400 plus delivery Precious Seated Male on plinth (original ceramic height approx 45cm) £385 plus delivery Male Nudes Male Figure on plinth (Reading Series) (99 original ceramic height approx 40cm) £650
Sitting Male Nude 25 (original ceramic approx 25cm from shelf) £250 plus delivery Angel of The Future (blue & white ceramic approx 80cm height ) £995 plus delivery 44 Guardian of Tradition (blue & white ceramic approx 80cm height ) £995 plus delivery 45 Precious Seated Male on Steps (original ceramic height approx 45cm) £550 plus delivery
Four Searted Male Nudes Set 066 (blue & white ceramic approximatly 75cm in height) £2400 plus delivery Precious Seated Male on plinth (original ceramic height approx 45cm) £550 plus delivery Precious Seated Male on plinth (original ceramic height approx 45cm) £450 plus delivery Sitting Male Nude 28 (original ceramic approx 25cm from shelf) £250 plus delivery
Precious Standing II (94 original ceramic height approx 50cm) £475 Precious Seated Male on blocks (original ceramic height approx 45cm) £550 plus delivery Precious Standing Figure with Tree III (102 original ceramic height approx 60cm) £695 Precious Seated Male on block letter series (original ceramic height approx 45cm) £550 plus delivery
Seated Male Nude (original ceramic height approx 22cm from shelf) £250 plus delivery Precious Seated Male on plinth (original ceramic height approx 45cm) £450 plus delivery Precious Sitting Male Nude 21 (original ceramic approx 25cm from shelf) £420 plus delivery Seated Male Nude, Ref 88 (b&w original ceramic approx 25cm from the shelf) £300
Precious Seated Male on plinth (original ceramic height approx 45cm) £385 plus delivery Letter I (104 original ceramic height approx 60cm) £750 Seated Female nude, Ref 89 (b&w original ceramic approx 25cm from the shelf) £300 Precious Rust Block (82 original ceramic height approx 64cm) £1450
Seated Couple letter series (original ceramic height approx 24cm from shelf) £750 plus delivery Seated Nude Couple (Letter Series with gold) 018 (blue & white ceramic approx 22cm in height from shelf) £750 plus delivery Black and White Male Nude 23 (original ceramic approx 25cm from shelf) £250 plus delivery Precious Seated Male Nude (original ceramic height approx 24cm from shelf) £420 plus delivery
Precious Sitting Male Nude 22 (original ceramic approx 25cm from shelf) £420 plus delivery Four pugilists waiting for the swifts 84 (approx 30cm tall) £475.00 Seated Nude Couple (Letter Series) 020 (blue & white ceramic approx 22cm in height from shelf) £750 plus delivery Precious Standing Four Males (106 original ceramic height approx 60cm) £2500
Seated Nude Couple (letter series) 46 (black and white ceramic approx 55cm height) £1250 plus delivery Precious Standing I (93 original ceramic height approx 50cm) £475 Precious Rust & I (81 original ceramic height approx 58cm) £1100 Seated Female nude, Ref 87 (b&w original ceramic approx 25cm from the shelf) £300
Seated Male Nude, Ref 86 (b&w original ceramic approx 25cm from the shelf) £300 Precious Seated Male on plinth letter series (original ceramic height approx 45cm) £450 plus delivery Seated Male Nude, Ref 90 (approx 20cm from the shelf) £250 Precious Sitting Figure with Tree (105 original ceramic height approx 60cm) £2750
Precious Standing Figure with Tree II (101 original ceramic height approx 60cm) £650 Large Pugilist & Golden Swift (original ceramic approx 42 x 90cm) £2750 plus delivery Angel Standing (97 original ceramic height approx 50cm) £595 Precious Standing Female Figure with Tree I (100 original ceramic height approx 54cm) £650
Black and White Male Nude 24 (original ceramic approx 25cm from shelf) £250 plus delivery Sitting Male Nude on Plynth 26 (original ceramic approx 50cm ) £425 plus delivery Sitting Male Nude on Plynth 27 (original ceramic approx 55cm ) £450 plus delivery

Biography

Pierre Williams was born in 1962. He completed his foundation at Hereford College of Art and Design in 1998; where he was awarded the Brian Hatton Award. He then went on to study ceramics at the University of Wales in Cardiff (UWIC), graduating in 2001 and also exhibiting at the New Designers Show in Islington later that year.   Pierre then returned to Hereford College of Art and Design as a tutor between 2002 and 2004, exhibiting at the Hereford Contempoary Craft Fair (winning the new exhibitor award in 2003 and the Booker Arts Prize 2004). He then worked as a part time tutor at Hereford College for the Blind between 2005 and 2008, and has continued to exhibit locally during h-Art, and in other rergional galleries.  He has been exhibiting with the GreenStage since Christmas 2008, and we represented Pierre at both the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea and Bristol with considerable success.


Artist Statement

PRECIOUS SERIES This series of work came about after a conversation with a fellow artist which centred round deserving to achieve your own success through the things you love doing. We all battle our inner demons each day and as my work is now exploring more personal issues I wanted to explore the idea of learning to appreciate and love the person you are. Part of the reason I now work as artist is to aspire to be better, to do the best I can, instead of doing what, maybe, I’m second best at. After lots of thought and experiments with surface, texture and finish it’s manifested itself as a golden being pealing back a layer of ceramic skin. Ceramics in this country is viewed as a poor relation in the art world so it’s been the perfect way to reflect this concept and also makes a statement about the material itself. We also have different facets to our personalities with some aspects being more likeable than others, our bright side and our dark side for instance. This has also been expressed through different surface qualities on separate figures. PUGILIST AND THE SWIFT. The series of work entitled the ‘Pugilist and the Swift’ came about by the summer arrival of the swifts at my studio, which is thier nesting territory. They only ever land for this sole purpose and when the young are ready to fly the nest, for some strange reason, instead of flying out to the sky they come into my sutdio. I take great delight from rescueing and releasing the young swifts, some will sit in my open hand for a while to regain thier strenght and some will fly sraight off. To be the only human to handle this amazing creature fills me with amazement and takes me back to the innocense fo my childhood, where I was discovering the wonders of the natural world. As a child I was always on the lookout for frogs, toads, lizards, slowworms and the like on my adventures. I decided to make some work to reflect these thoughts, but the first figure turned out a little stockier than I had intended and resembled a bit of a scrapper, which I quite liked. This gave rise to the notion that my struggle to be an artist is not just a mental, but also a physical one, where I have to work at other jobs to allow me to pursue my dreams. Working seven days a week, some of which is extremely exhausting and then entering the studio where I am required to be extremely sensitive. I feel the piece of work I produced captured all of these things and will lead on to more work in this vein. The smaller pieces came about due to the cold winter sat next work my wood burner when I was thawing my clay out and found myself wishing for the return of the swifts as this woulkd mean it’s summer. ORIGINAL INSPIRATION This main body of work has been inspired by many recent visits to Hereford Cathedral, which I have been rediscovering. The skills of the craftsmen who created this work of art and that are also being matched in the restoration work is something I try to replicate in my own work, all be it on a smaller scale. I can be influenced by one stone in the building, a group of arches or the patterned ceramic floor tiles and this may manifest itself in a three dimensional form or surface decoration.   The figures have been developed by also looking back in time to classical sculpture and the work of Rodin as well as the contemporary work of Anthony Gormley. The environments Gormley sets his figures in have been a catalyst for the juxtaposed figure to the architectural form. I like to play with how the human body may interact with different forms in every day poses or performing contemporary functions.  The complex surface decoration which may require up to five firings has been developing over the last five years, by looking at contemporary painters, ceramic and textile surface patterns and the work I have carried out with students with learning difficulties. I also tap into the blue and white tin glaze tradition of  earthenware ceramics, with my top firing temperature being 1120 degrees. I will use slips, oxides, under glazes, glazes, enamels and lusters to achieve the desired effect. With this type of finish I am trying to recreate the same qualities as the antique collections in museums that I have looked at many times where there is not one particular piece I am drawn to, but the shine, colour and feel of the whole display.