Room for the River – Shannon Williamson
In her latest body of work, Room for the River, Shannon Williamson opens a floodgate of subject matter to probe at the boundaries between domestic and creative space. Capturing and transforming the transient moments that form the meat of daily life, her recent paintings create peculiar fictional spaces which speak to the permeable layers between the personal and the environmental.
As she writes, “These works begun their lives on the walls of my home, unmarked sheets of paper taped in spaces where I fold the laundry, where I cook and wash the dishes… As a mother and artist, I have been investigating ways to bridge the gap between domestic and creative spaces. Converting my home into a makeshift studio, I lined rooms with paper to initiate a continuous drawing project able collect uncensored traces of my domestic and sensory environment over time in layers. The works in this exhibition are born from this process of uncensored gathering and layering, allowing me to map rhythms of domesticity and hoard its fleeting sensory treasures against the background of my own internal, existential musings and crises. As the drawings grew, concepts emerged that were greater than the sum of their parts. The exhibition, Room for the River, expands on these trajectories, often painting directly into the structure of chaos below.”
Read more about this body of work in our City Art Reader interview online here.
