Andy Rhys Williams

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Andy Rhys Williams is a sculptor and mosaicist living and working in South East London. He graduated BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2021 and currently has a studio in Bermondsey. He also works part-time as an artist’s production coordinator. 

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Having trained in Fine Art, as opposed to mosaic-making, he takes a light-footed approach to the traditions of this ancient medium and chooses to appropriate them (or not) towards his own ends. He uses mosaic as a tactile, bodily process through which he considers our relationships towards items of material culture, and questions how our common gestures of extraction, distortion and demolition express their perceived value.

Leveraging family history, archival material, and his own professional experience of art fabrication and handling, his meticulously constructed sculptural works tend to appear in varying states of collapse or dissolution, and contain references to industrial process, archaeology and acts of iconoclastic vandalism. This expresses an underlying desire to situate himself amongst the various identities formed around the making, breaking, hoarding, hiding, and digging up of ‘stuff’. 

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In addition to delivering a guest lecture as part of The London School of Mosaic’s Artist Talk series, and completing a residency at General Practice in Lincoln, Andy has shown work in various exhibitions in London and Lincolnshire.