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Quinten Edward Williams

Art, design, and research

Archive of projects (2008 – 2024)

This archive is of completed projects spanning artwork and art exhibitions, arts-based workshops, lecturing, research, exhibition design, publication design, user experience and web design, as well as the studies and qualifications I completed over the period.

Artwork, exhibitions and studio practice

Environments, movement, complexity, and making-thinking through art

Paintings, sculpture, and prints offer a way to think about, feel through, and create instances of movement in the world. My artwork are formal arrangements of observed or hypothetical moments from complex environments. These works come together in installations: meaning is created between the relationship of works through an emergent viewing experience that involves the viewer. My investigation through art is in the movements that make urban-rural environments, the humans relation to notions of nature and artifice, and the inherent uncertainty of interaction in the world of moving bodies.

Interdisciplinary Design

Incorporating the social, somatic and environmental in a design practice

In a complex world there are often more than one way to solve a problem. Design offers tools and processes that employed to address specific challenges and meet particular needs. Unpinning the creation and testing of design concepts however are the design processes that pose questions, empathise, analyse, and synthesise. Design offers a way to influence the experience a user or audience with an object, process or a space. Good design enhances the appeal and usability of a product, service, or organisation. My design work is influenced by my knowledge and experience in art, visual, spatial, graphic and web design, research, facilitation, consultation, project conceptualisation, and project implementation. The people I work with and think with are artists, designers, product owners, sociologists, anthropologists, public health researchers, and activists.

Writing, lecturing and studies

Thoughts about design and arts-based social research methodology and output

Writing is an important aspect of the reflexive praxis of my working life. All of my projects have incorporated practice-based research within the process in some way or another, and I have explored the practice-based research through a written theoretical capacity in some of them. This has been critical in explicating the contextual and conceptual underpinnings of my work. This body of words consists of project reports, dissertations, blog entries, and courses. It is a step removed from working in a specific art or design project, but it provides insights into my art, design, and research.

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