Sue Williamson

thumb|Sue Williamson Sue Williamson (born 1941) is an artist and writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1948 she immigrated with her family to South Africa. Between 1963 and 1965 she studied at the Art Students League of New York. In 1983 she earned her Advanced Diploma in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town. In 2007 she received the Visual Arts Research Award from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C and in 2011 the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship. In 2013 she was a guest curator of the summer academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern. Quotes "I am trying to reconstruct a vision of District Six as it was in the 1960s," "Work in progress: Bringing District Six back to life". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 28 March 2025. "As far as was possible, I worked from old archival photos of the district, first engraving, then inking up the areas with etching ink, and finally cleaning the ink from the surface, so that only the ink in the lines remained. I used a tin of ink I discovered in my studio, dating from the 80s and made by the incomparable T E Lawrence of London." "Standing at the window through many different weathers, trying to reconstruct that vanished landscape, many visitors to the gallery came up to me to chat, and recall their memories of District Six, or asked me what exactly I was doing." "I enjoyed these encounters. As an artist, one so seldom knows what the reaction of visitors to a gallery really is, or if they understand what one is trying to do." "Sue Williamson's Diary: Window over a lost district". ArtThrob. Retrieved 28 March 2025. Quotes About Her "Trained as a printmaker, Williamson also works in video, photography and installation. Her work addresses the media, social issues and aspects of contemporary history." "Williamson also writes and lectures about art, and is the author of the classic ‘Resistance Art in South Africa’ (1989).  In 2009, she published ‘South African Art Now’ (HarperCollins, New York)." Guest Curator at the Wayback Machine, August 21 - 31, 2013. Sue Williamson (archived March 1, 2013) Sommerakademie, Retrieved 28 March 2025. "Throughout her career artist Sue Williamson has asked viewers of her photos, videos, urban graffiti and other pigeonhole-resistant labours to critically think about how and where they live." "Work in progress: Bringing District Six back to life". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 24 May 2023. "Williamson is a social commentator and combines slick aesthetic devices with hard, cutting edge facts of life. This is almost contradictory, yet it is precisely in this tension, that we are both lured into the artwork and then come away thinking about the issues, the image thus returns to text as it were." "Williamson ran a series of workshops where she explored the power of place and its identity to various citizens. At the end of the workshop, a consensus was reached on how best to exemplify their feelings around that particular place." Artsy (22 February 2016). "South African Past Is Present in Sue Williamson's New Show at Goodman Gallery". Artsy. Retrieved 24 May 2023. External links Category:Installation artists Category:Printmakers Category:Photographers from South Africa Category:Video artists Category:Women from South Africa Category:Artists from South Africa Category:Women artists Category:1941 births Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Living people