Aubrey Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Aubrey Williams

Guyanese painter

Date of Birth: 08-May-1926

Place of Birth: Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1990

Profession: painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Aubrey Williams

  • Aubrey Williams (8 May 1926 – 17 April 1990) was a Guyanese artist.
  • He was best known for his large, oil-on-canvas paintings, which combine elements of abstract expressionism with forms, images and symbols inspired by the pre-Columbian art of indigenous peoples of the Americas. Born in Georgetown in British Guiana (now Guyana), Williams began drawing and painting at an early age.
  • He received informal art tutoring from the age of three, and joined the Working Peoples' Art Class at the age of 12.
  • After training as an agronomist he worked as an Agricultural Field Officer for eight years, initially on the sugar plantations of the East Coast and later in the North-West region of the country—an area inhabited primarily by the indigenous Warao people.
  • His time among the Warao had a dramatic impact on his artistic approach, and initiated the complex obsession with pre-Columbian arts and cultures that ran throughout his artistic career. Williams left Guyana at the height of the Independence Movement in 1952, and moved to the United Kingdom.
  • Following his first exhibition in London in 1954, he became an increasingly significant figure in the post-war British avant-garde art scene, particularly through his association with Denis Bowen's New Vision Centre Gallery.
  • In 1966, he came together with a group of London-based Caribbean artists and intellectuals to found the Caribbean Artists Movement, which served as a dynamic hub of cultural events and activity until its dissolution in 1972.
  • From 1970 onwards, Williams worked in studios in Jamaica and Florida as well as the UK, and it was during this period that he produced three of his best-known series of paintings: Shostakovich, The Olmec Maya and Now and Cosmos.

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