About
Bronwen Williams is an education focussed associate lecturer at UNSW, Sydney in the School of Art & Design.
She holds an MFA (Research) and BFA (First Class Honours) from UNSW and a Diploma Building Design from TAFE NSW.
Bronwen’s practice engages an experimental approach to making that requires agility and the ability to traverse a range of disciplines and skills, including new technologies. Her work spans the fields of installation art, sculpture, interactive media, experience design, and object design. She has fabrication skills across wood, metal, jewellery, ceramics, model-making, 3D modelling, creative coding, digital fabrication, audio, and video capture and editing and architectural drafting and more. Bronwen’s work draws on the nuances of her experiences of being Chinese-Australian as influence in the creation of works that examine contemporary cross-cultural identity. In particular, she is interested in how the visibility and audibility of Asian-Australians is both subtly and explicitly managed by whiteness, and how non-white bodies navigate these experiences in colonial spaces.
She has exhibited at a variety galleries across Sydney and NSW including UNSW Galleries, MOP Projects, 107 Projects, Gaffa Gallery and AirSpace Projects. She has previously collaborated on projects for Sculpture at Scenic World 2018 and 2019, ISEA 2013 and the NOW now festival 2016 and 2017.
As an educator, Bronwen is passionate about promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in tertiary institutions, and building learning communities. She integrates her range of skills into a contemporary teaching practice that supports students to develop as professional practitioners. Bronwen’s teaching philosophy advocates for curiosity, connection, and collaboration as cornerstones of life-long learning.
CV
Education:
2022 - Diploma of Building Design at TAFE NSW.
2018 - Masters of Fine Arts (Research) at UNSW Art & Design (COFA).
2015 - Honours First Class (BFA) at UNSW Art & Design (COFA).
2014 - Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design (COFA).
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
April-May 2018 - In-audbility, in-visibility, UNSW Galleries, Sydney.
August-September 2016 - Vox Dissonus, MOP Projects, Sydney.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
May 2019 - Sculpture at Scenic World, Katoomba
March 2019 - North Sydney Art Prize, Sydney
October 2018 - In Motion Festival, AirSpace Projects, Sydney
May 2018 - Sculpture at Scenic World, Katoomba
March 2017 - Art Without Agency, The Workshop Arts Centre and Ewart Gallery, Sydney
February 2017 - Group Show, AD Space, Sydney
January 2017 - The NOW now Festival, 107 Projects, Sydney
October 2016 - Voyeurism, 107 Projects, Sydney
October 2016 - In Motion Festival, AirSpace Projects, Sydney
June 2016 - Sub-stance, ES74 Gallery, Sydney
April 2016 - Still Translating, 107 Projects, Sydney
February 2016 - New Kids on the Block, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
December 2015 - Annual, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
October 2015 - Fcklty of Controlled Kaos, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
September 2015 - Spectral Shrine, ARCO gallery, Sydney
June 2015 - Launch, Merry Crisis Gallery, Sydney
June 2014 - Not My Mate, Kudos gallery, Sydney
Collaborative work:
May 2019 - Collaborative sound sculpture with Mitch Thomas exhibited at Sculpture at Scenic World, Katoomba
March 2019 - Collaborative sound sculpture with Mitch Thomas exhibited at North Sydney Art Prize, The Coal Loader, Waverton
May 2018 - Collaborative sound sculpture with Mitch Thomas exhibited at Sculpture at Scenic World, Katoomba
August 2015 - Collaborative live sound and video performance piece with Kusum Normoyle and Clayton Thomas as part of Island Salon, an offshoot from Underbelly Arts Festival
June 2013 - Collaborative work with artists Paul Gazzola and Paul Granjon as part of Experimental Body Extension Manufacturing Unit (EBEMU) for the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2013)
Curatorial work:
2017 - Co-Curator of The NOW now Festival of experimental and improvised music and sound art alongside Clayton Thomas, Jon Hunter, Danielle Zorbas and Alexander Garsden.
2016 - Co-Curator of The NOW now Festival of experimental and improvised music and sound art alongside Clayton Thomas, Julia Reidy, Jon Hunter, Brooke Olsen and Del Lumanta.
Achievements, Awards and Grants:
Arc @ UNSW Art & Design Grant - Grant to support ES74 exhibition, May 2016
Australian Postgraduate Award - Scholarship award for Postgraduate study with UNSW Art & Design.
Selected Bibliography:
2018 - In-audibility, in-visibility: The dynamics of contemporary cross-cultural identity through sound and installation. Master of Fine Arts thesis by Bronwen Williams
2017 - Interview with Julia Reidy in Harbour Editions
2016 - Bronwen Williams: Vox Dissonus. Interview/review with Alt Media on City Hub website.
2016 - Blog entry about Still Translating by Emma Wilson on The 107 Blog
2015 - III: An Exploration of Sound and its Relation to Hybridity. Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) thesis by Bronwen Williams