Organic Inorganic: Nigel Williams at Prema Arts Centre

Sculptor Nigel Williams has an exhibition opening this September at Prema Arts Centre in Uley, near Dursley.

Nigel says, ‘The exhibition will include some of my usual copper & brass sculptures previously seen at Guild exhibitions at Rodmarton, but the main feature will be a new tranche of quite different work created mostly this year, which I've entitled "Organic Inorganic". It goes like this:

After decades of photographing "developed surfaces" (i.e. artifacts that started life with boring plain surfaces, but over the years "developed" into something much more interesting), the next logical step seemed to be to mount their images in "frames" which exhibited similar surface characteristics. I've been making work along these lines for about 15 years, but I'm particular pleased with this latest batch, because the images have all been printed directly onto aluminium dibond, which (apart from being diabolically expensive!) really makes these extraordinarily-detailed and heavily-manipulated photographs jump straight off the wall. The results are quite startling, imparting a very successful illusion of depth and intrigue to images that are often very abstract and inscrutable. The "sympathetic" 3-dimensional frame structures are constructed from oxidised and re-oxidised steel, with added features and details, including following the details in the images in some cases.’

You can meet Nigel at Prema on Friday 18th September 2026, between 10.30am and 4pm, when he will be happy to chat and answer questions about the work.

Wednesday 16th - Saturday 24th October

Organic Inorganic

Prema

Bethesda Chapel

South Street

Uley (Nr Dursley)

Gloucestershire GL11 5SS

Further details of the exhibition can be found here and for full details of this concept, along with lots of pictures, take a look at this page of Nigel's website.