Sydney Exhibition

Jude Williams

Opens Wednesday 7 June, 6 – 8pm
Runs 8 – 18 June 2023

Artist statement

Only Happy When it Rains is an exhibition of articulations of everyday experiences, like players on a stage. I engage with painting, photography, video and drawing in the making of these works. Through these mediums I have an enduring and persistent relationship to colour and the materiality of paint, to the extent that the processes and material aspects of painting remain central to the identity and meaning of my practice.

I’m interested in creating works that convey the emotions and shared encounters experienced within the urban spaces I inhabit. The works speak to ideas of image, tactile surfaces, genres of painting, and coming home but not in the nostalgic sense. I address lived time, present and past in the everyday as a tapestry-like embodiment, inviting the viewer in without any formality and undisturbed, to take things as they find them.

Jude Williams
2023