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SELECTED WORKS BY Bedwyr Williams



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Bedwyr Williams

Walk a mile in my shoes

2006
Installation with size 13 shoes, written notes, poster, shelving and foot-rests

Dimensions variable

Bedwyr Williams often draws upon the quirky banalities of his own autobiographic existence to develop his sculptures and performances. His work merges art and life with a comedic twist that is instantaneously sympathetic and relational. In Walk A Mile In My Shoes, Williams presents a display case boasting 45 pairs of used shoes. Not just any old footwear however – each bootie is Williams’s own whopping size 13.

Inviting the audience to share in his own problematics of podiatry, viewers are encouraged to try the gear on: an act that invariably relays the humour and embarrassment of floppy footed clowns and sasquatch clumsiness. The importance that each pair of shoes was purchased second hand underlies the key themes of Williams’s piece – with the knowledge that there are at least over 40 other Hobbit-pawed souls in the world – Walk A Mile In My Shoes celebrates diversity, inclusion, and community; through the simple practicalities of footwear, Williams extols the values of tolerance and individual difference.


Bedwyr Williams

Walk a mile in my shoes

2006
Installation with size 13 shoes, written notes, poster, shelving and foot-rests

Dimensions variable


Bedwyr Williams

Walk a mile in my shoes (Detail)

2006
Installation with size 13 shoes, written notes, poster, shelving and foot-rests

Dimensions variable


Bedwyr Williams

Walk a mile in my shoes (Detail)

2006
Installation with size 13 shoes, written notes, poster, shelving and foot-rests

Dimensions variable


Bedwyr Williams

Walk a mile in my shoes (Detail)

2006
Installation with size 13 shoes, written notes, poster, shelving and foot-rests

Dimensions variable



ARTIST INFORMATION




Bedwyr Williams's BIOGRAPHY



Bedwyr Williams' Biography and Exhibitions

1974
Born in Wales

Lives and works in Caernarfon, Wales


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2006
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales

2005
Bedwyr Williams. STORE, London
Basta, Welsh Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice
Albatros, Golf/Harp Performance at Camden Arts Centre, London and National Eisteddfod 2005

2004
Tyranny of the Meek, Chapter, Cardiff

2003
Operation Ferrule, Arts Council of Wales Pavilion at the National Eisteddfod, Wales


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2006
Becks Futures, ICA, London and touring

2005
Spectator T, various venues in Sheffield
Over & Over, Again & Again, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Summer Show, Andrew Mummery, London

2004
Romantic Detachment, PS1 New York and touring
Now then, Now then, International 3, Manchester
Summer Invitational, fa Projects, London

2003
Apropos of Nothing, G39, Cardiff, Wales
Let’s Get Married Today and Blaenau Vista Social Club’, part of Roadshow Grizedale Arts, Cumbria and touring in UK
Anglo Ponce’, Trade Apartment, London

2001
Mista Ar Mistar Mostyn, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
Talwrn Celf (Art Cockfight), Performance at the National Eisteddfod of Wales

1999
Game, Set, Match, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1998
Social Realism, Performance at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Box Clever, de fabriek, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 
 

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