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Laura Williams has created an installation in Page's window gallery evocative of the luscious domestic interiors depicted in the artist's own paintings. Featuring a suite of hand-painted wallpapers against which are hung a selection of the artist's previous works, it is as if one has stumbled upon a real life iteration of one of Williams' illustrated worlds.
"I wanted to suggest a larger than life version of the rooms that I paint which have a reoccurring language of patterns which mean specific things to me. I loved a recent description of my paintings as 'claustrophobic spaces that vibrate with charged psychological tensions', and I wanted to see if that feeling was still present in a larger scale, especially as the bright green are a nod to the Arsenic used by Victorian's to colour their wallpaper and fabrics of the time. Literally an ode to a poisonous type of domesticity. I worked for 20 years in retail and I always loved the art of window dressing. Naturally, I was drawn to a chance to undertake an installation for the window gallery as it offered me a unique chance to meld my current art practice with my past life as shop girl."
Laura Williams has created an installation in Page's window gallery evocative of the luscious domestic interiors depicted in the artist's own paintings. Featuring a suite of hand-painted wallpapers against which are hung a selection of the artist's previous works, it is as if one has stumbled upon a real life iteration of one of Williams' illustrated worlds.
"I wanted to suggest a larger than life version of the rooms that I paint which have a reoccurring language of patterns which mean specific things to me. I loved a recent description of my paintings as 'claustrophobic spaces that vibrate with charged psychological tensions', and I wanted to see if that feeling was still present in a larger scale, especially as the bright green are a nod to the Arsenic used by Victorian's to colour their wallpaper and fabrics of the time. Literally an ode to a poisonous type of domesticity. I worked for 20 years in retail and I always loved the art of window dressing. Naturally, I was drawn to a chance to undertake an installation for the window gallery as it offered me a unique chance to meld my current art practice with my past life as shop girl."