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Lu Williams (b.1993, Essex) is an artist producing sculpture, print, zines, drawing, writing, video, events and workshops through research, community engagement, collecting and collaboration.
They make work around the themes of place and memory; community and collaboration; collecting; class and upbringing; accessibility; and platforming and uplifting marginalised voices- through the lens of queerness, neurodivergence and working classness.
They are interested in class and taste, queerness, ecology, systems, paraphernalia and the notion of the ‘disposable’; elevating everyday offcuts, often ephemeral and nostalgic, into the valued but functional ‘art object’.
In 2015 they created Grrrl Zine Fair, a place for self-publishing and DIY art, music and culture surrounding feminist publishing. In 2017 the Grrrl Zine Library was born and hosted 600+ queer feminist zines, housed at The Old Waterworks.
In 2020 they co-founded Dog Ear, dog toy sculptures and accompanying publications produced by artists, with artist Emma Edmondson.
They continue research on ‘The Cyberabject’, an investigation into ‘ the upheaval of contemporary media toward the entropic and bodily aesthetic. Cyberabject explores “the embodiment in a world of inconsistent human built data, the desire for In Real Life (IRL) bodies through screens, uncanny animatronics, and seeping pores of human skin pawing, at the cloud.” You can read the original Cyberabject Essay here.
Williams is currently based in Leigh-on-sea, working from The Old Waterworks artist studios, Southend-on-sea and is on the Southend Community Investment Board and will be joining the Creative Estuary Board in September 2023.
︎ studio@luwilliams.com
︎ Grrrl enquiries + zine workshops: hello@grrrlzinefair.com
︎ www.grrrlzinefair.com
︎ www.dogear.uk
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They make work around the themes of place and memory; community and collaboration; collecting; class and upbringing; accessibility; and platforming and uplifting marginalised voices- through the lens of queerness, neurodivergence and working classness.
They are interested in class and taste, queerness, ecology, systems, paraphernalia and the notion of the ‘disposable’; elevating everyday offcuts, often ephemeral and nostalgic, into the valued but functional ‘art object’.
In 2015 they created Grrrl Zine Fair, a place for self-publishing and DIY art, music and culture surrounding feminist publishing. In 2017 the Grrrl Zine Library was born and hosted 600+ queer feminist zines, housed at The Old Waterworks.
In 2020 they co-founded Dog Ear, dog toy sculptures and accompanying publications produced by artists, with artist Emma Edmondson.
They continue research on ‘The Cyberabject’, an investigation into ‘ the upheaval of contemporary media toward the entropic and bodily aesthetic. Cyberabject explores “the embodiment in a world of inconsistent human built data, the desire for In Real Life (IRL) bodies through screens, uncanny animatronics, and seeping pores of human skin pawing, at the cloud.” You can read the original Cyberabject Essay here.
Williams is currently based in Leigh-on-sea, working from The Old Waterworks artist studios, Southend-on-sea and is on the Southend Community Investment Board and will be joining the Creative Estuary Board in September 2023.
︎ studio@luwilliams.com
︎ Grrrl enquiries + zine workshops: hello@grrrlzinefair.com
︎ www.grrrlzinefair.com
︎ www.dogear.uk
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Photo by Eliza Hatch