Year: 2010

Exhibition of a single new work opens at Truro Cathedral

The painting titled Resonance of Compassion is part of Williams’ current series of works examining the demise of compassion in society and in the wider realm with reference to Afghanistan and Iraq. The work presents an allegory that brings together two disparate acts and invites questions of the impact of compassion and empathy.

The painting was made over many months at his studio, a former lifeboat station, in Newquay. An accompanying four minute film documenting the making of the work and featuring local people from north Cornwall posing as models, can be seen at http://www.nicholascharleswilliams.co.uk.

Williams has exhibited widely, with solo shows at the Russell-Cotes Museum & Art Gallery, Bournemouth; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh and Liverpool Cathedral for the opening of the European Capital of Culture. In 2001 he was awarded the Hunting Art Prize and in 2008 shortlisted for the Threadneedle Figurative Prize.

Morley Contemporary Art has second one-man show by Gordon Couch, showing 37 paintings rooted in Gordon’s background as a boat restorer in Cornwall.

Gallery open from 10am to 4pm every day during the exhibition from 20th November to 5th December 2010 at Morley Contemporary Art, Tredis Barn, tredis, Shevoick, Torpoint, Cornwall PL11 3ER. www.morleyart.co.uk

The painting titled Resonance of Compassion is part of Williams’ current series of works examining the demise of compassion in society and in the wider realm with reference to Afghanistan and Iraq. The work presents an allegory that brings together two disparate acts and invites questions of the impact of compassion and empathy.
The painting was made over many months at his studio, a former lifeboat station, in Newquay. An accompanying four minute film documenting the making of the work and featuring local people from north Cornwall posing as models, can be seen at www.nicholascharleswilliams.co.uk.
Williams has exhibited widely, with solo shows at the Russell-Cotes Museum & Art Gallery, Bournemouth; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh and Liverpool Cathedral for the opening of the European Capital of Culture. In 2001 he was awarded the Hunting Art Prize and in 2008 shortlisted for the Threadneedle Figurative Prize.