ARTISTS
Sue Williamson: Short Stories in a Longer Tale
New and important unseen early works by Sue Williamson, marking the artist’s 30th year with Goodman Gallery.
Williamson has continued to exhibit all over the world, and last year had solo shows at The Box Museum in Plymouth, UK, titled ‘Between Memory and Forgetting’; at the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, titled ‘Other Voices, Other Cities’ and a two-person exhibition with Lebohang Kganye, at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, US, titled ‘Tell Me What You Remember’. A major retrospective of her five-decades long career will open at Iziko South African National Gallery on 19 February 2025, titled ‘There’s something I must tell you: a retrospective.’
In ‘Short Stories in a Longer Tale’, Williamson sources news media and archival references to unpack six key moments in South and West Africa’s complex and layered history, using printmaking, photography, drawing, video, embroidery and installation in her incisive work.
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