mandywilliamsphotography
ArtEvol 2025 / Mandy Williams
Disrupted Landscapes 49 , 2021 Bespoke digital black and white silver gelatin print 40.3 × 30.4 × 1.5 cm
Mandy Williams is a London-based photographer, sound and video artist whose projects since 2016 have focused on English coastal landscapes. Williams uses these sites metaphorically to explore solitude, grief, contemporary politics and environmental issues. In black-and-white photographs of the chalk coasts of Kent and Sussex, Williams applies graphic interventions that fracture the landscape into shards and splinters, isolating geologies that float in darkness or form partial barriers suggesting borders of separation. Williams studied History of Art at Warwick University and Communications (Film) at Goldsmiths, later completing an MA in Photography at the London College of Communication, UAL. Exhibitions include Print Now at London Art Fair, Resonance Open at Raven Row, Disrupted Landscapes at Four Corners and Earth Photo 2024 at the Royal Geographical Society. Videos have been screened internationally at film festivals, earning awards such as Best Experimental Short 2021 and Best Director, Documentary Short Film 2024. Williams is also an active member of several collectives.
Artwork Introduction Disrupted Landscapes (2020—2025) comments on the exclusionary politics of contemporary England through the metaphor of the English landscape and has inequality at its core. It distorts and displaces images of the white cliffs of Dover and Kent coastal landscape to suggest the fracturing of the idealisation of the English landscape and the increasingly hostile environment of a country divided by class, geography, and wealth in the post-Brexit age.
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