Since 2020, the Ampersand Foundation and Photoworks have collaborated to provide an annual residency and professional development opportunity for artists working with photography.
The artist residency takes place at Wigwell Lodge, in Derbyshire, where artists are invited to explore and experiment with their practice. This year, Matthew Arthur Williams was the artist in Residence.
Take a look at the film below to find out what he was up to.
Matthew Arthur Williams
Matthew Arthur Williams is an artist, photographer and DJ Living and working in Glasgow. Williams frequently works with the photographic medium, moving image and sound.
He completed his BA Photography at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2012. He was awarded the Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship in February 2024 and nominated for Film London Jarman Award in 2023.
Recent exhibitions consist of We All Love The Same Boy (2024) a two-person show with Emmie McLuskey. Group exhibition Pictures of Us at Gathering (London), and Five by Five at Incubator (London) both in 2024.
His solo exhibition Soon Come which consisted of photographic works, film and a sound installation was presented at DCA, Dundee in 2023.
He has developed exhibition projects and commissions with the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2022), Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark (2021), Jupiter Artland and Johnson Terrace Gardens as part of a commission for Edinburgh Art Festival (2021), Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow (2019) and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2017).
Williams’ research has recently been supported through programmes at Cove Park, Primary Nottingham, CCA Glasgow, The Bothy Project, Hospitalfield and LUX Scotland.
As of March 2023 he sits on the board of trustees for The Bothy Project and in 2023 has taken post as a Lecturer in Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art.
