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Kas Williams LSDC

Mixed Media

About Kas
Kas Williams creates highly engaging and contemporary artworks which come from a profound love of colour and a naturally curious nature.There is a musicality about her work with a strong sense of texture and rhythm. Working with multiple mediums she creates a visual vocabulary using layers of colour, shade and pattern that has become a signature of her work. Colour is a key element combined with a fusion of different techniques to create floating fields of transparencies and reflections that are anchored with pins to a laser cut frame.Kas holds a Masters of Arts Distinction in Textiles.
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Kas’ work is defined by the layering of shades, tones and transparencies to create complex surfaces that are both tactile and visually engaging. She uses a fusion of diverse processes and techniques to create sophisticated contemporary artworks that have a strong sense of texture and rhythm combined with a sense of musicality in gestures and marks. She works intuitively in an abstract way using vibrant colour, texture and pattern to bring a sense of playfulness and depth to her compositions and it is a process that generates diversions and discoveries along the way so 'what if" is a recurring question. It’s an organic way of working - a subconscious gathering of observations, inspirations and responses to combinations of materials, marks and patterns that percolates over time into layers of ideas and images. She always looks for a balance between complexity and elegance so it’s often in the editing and taking away of elements that the final piece comes into view.

Learning the craft of printing in a traditional way has deeply influenced her approach and taught her process, chemistry and the science of colour. It also finely tuned a natural way of thinking in layers so embracing digital technology in some parts of her work has been a natural progression allowing her to innovate and make pieces that couldn’t be made any other way.

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Education

2015 - 17

Master of Arts Distinction in Textiles - University for the Creative Arts

1981 - 84

Batchelor of Arts (Hons) Textiles - West Surrey College of Art & Design

1980

Foundation Year - Berkshire College of Art

Exhibitions

2025

  • Designer Craft - Tales in the Making,Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
  • POSE Portsmouth Open Studios

2024

  • Designer Craft - Bankside Gallery, London
  • Art in Bloom - Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
  • Craft Continuum - Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester
  • Interwoven - South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell

2023

2021

  • Stories 01 - Kroll, The News Building, The Shard Quarter, London
  • Makers Art Collective - Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester

2020

2019

  • Elevate 02 - The Shard, London
  • Counter Balance - Trinity Art Gallery, London City Island
  • Discovery Sessions - Trinity Art Gallery, London City Island
  • Play! Design - Beijing Times Art Museum, China
  • New Horizons - Coast Gallery, Zhuhai, China
  • From ArtCan With Love - Fitzrovia Gallery, London
  • 44 ArtWorks - 44 Hallam Street, London

2018

2017

  • Eleven - Strand Gallery, London Design Festival
  • Candid Arts Gallery, Islington, London

2016

  • ArtSpace - Lakeside 1000, Havant
  • Le Poème -The Atelier, Southsea
  • Materiality & Process - Linear Gallery, UCA Farnham
  • AfterWARds - Newport, Isle of Wight

2015

  • Sussex Artists Award - Pallant House, Chichester
  • Solo showcase - Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
  • CAKE - Southampton City Art Gallery

2014

  • Vessels - Making Space, Havant
  • Contemporary Makers Fair - Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
  • Zodiac Gallery – Portsmouth
  • WWF +60 Earth Hour - Portsmouth
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