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Caro Williams

London
Caro Williams (b. Hong Kong) is a London-based installation and mixed media artist who works with symbols, sound, language, and place.
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Caro is a London-based installation and mixed media artist working with symbols, sound, language, and place. Much of her work is inspired by poetry and the natural world.

Caro uses various methodologies in the production of the work often translating or ‘processing’ things – sounds, words, film clips, lines from poems, ideas – into another materiality through erasure, covering, digital manipulation or reconstitution via another substance. There is a poetic oddness to these processes. Sounds are silenced as they get transformed into materials (for example, sound waveforms in glinting metal). Text is transported from the written word on paper into three dimensions, where it can be seen from every angle.

The process of translation leaves a kind of poem in the viewer’s mind.  We are suspended in a dreamlike space where meaning is ambiguous: we see and hear something that is familiar yet at the same time it is out of reach. Perhaps this is why, despite the beauty and pleasure of the work, there is something melancholic about it too.

Caro was born in Hong Kong and studied fine art in London and Auckland. She was awarded a postgraduate research scholarship and an MA in sculpture from AUT Auckland. Caro exhibits widely both nationally and internationally and has received a number of awards, commissions, and funding. Caro is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS) and ArtCan .

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