Where to start? At the beginning is always good! For as long as I can remember I have had an obsession with the horse. It was that obsession which inspired me toward the creative arts in my formative years.
Drawing became the one thing that I was good at. In the 80's Dyslexia was less recognised if not less common. It became not only the thing that I hated the most, even to this day, but also the prime-mover that drove my art and art practise to the highest possible level.
I am often asked “Do you own a horse?” The answer is “No”, as it is for the question “Have you ever owned a horse?” I do ride, though infrequently. My art work becomes my horses, my friends; during my work I become lost in what I am doing towards a sense of peace and serenity, enjoying every hand movement whether it be on the page or through object creation. During these periods of creativity I put in all that I am; body and soul, towards simultaneous exhaustion and connectedness to my subject.
In my early 2D work I would use my photographic images as the basis for subsequent artistic reproduction and development in mark making; keeping the process pure - just me and the horse, with no one else involved. But in sculpture I would be guided by memory and touch in addition to my sense of visual aesthetic, to further build an intimate relationship between myself and the horse.
My artistic work with the horse truly blossomed when I studied for an HND in Fine Art Textiles at Camborne College. My early course work developed with repetition of layering, enveloping through a wide array of textured mediums: rapping with string & wire, pouring wax encasing layers of plastic, fabric and fibre. Sketchbook pages upon pages of the horse using a wide variety of mark-making tools; Though usually starting with sketch it is often involved at all stages of the process, even when working with diverse mediums through textile and sculpture. For any given project I have a large number of sketchbooks of different sizes, for instance in current work I am concurrently working with over 30.
When working with new horses and man I never know what I will produce, what my form of art will be what I will create, I watch, photograph and then let it happen if it be on paper of structure; the art is emergent in nature. It will invariably be a different body of work form the previous, just as each new horse and man that I meet are different form the last.
Meier Williams
Exhibitions, Design & Film
Solo Exhibitions
- 2016: Exim Etch Costumes
- Plymouth School Of Creative Arts, Plymouth
- 2013: The Cowboy Way
- Simpson's Old Time Museum, Oklahoma, America
- 2013: Sugar and Spice
- Open studios, Cornwall
- 2011: Ponies
- Dartmoor Gallery, Princetown, Devon
- 2009: Just Pencil
- Mikkeli University of A S, Finland
- 2008: 1st Solo show
- Morley Contemporary Art, Cornwall
- 2008: Drawn to the Valley
- Open studios, Cornwall
Group Exhibitions
- 2015: Mare & Foal
- The Mare & Foal Sanctuary, Devon
- 2014: 3 Artists
- Open studios, Cornwall
- 2012: Medieval Fortified Mansion
- Crocadon Sawmill, Devon
- 2010: Dartmoor Ponies
- High Moorland Visitor Centre, Devon
- 2010: A Sense of Place in Time
- Duchy Gallery, Devon
- 2008: Mount Edgecoumbe Gallery
- Cornwall
- 2008: Delamore Gallery
- Devon
- 2008: Lorient Celtic Festival
- Brittany, France
- 2008: Cube 3 Gallery
- University of Plymouth, Devon
- 2007: Schoolhouse
- Morvah, Cornwall
- 2007: Stuart House
- Cornwall
- 2007: Morley Contemporary Art
- Cornwall
- 2007: Truro College
- Cornwall
- 2007: Drawn to the Valley
- Open Studios, Cornwall
- 2007: Final Year Show
- Camborne College, Cornwall
Theatre Design - Costume
- 2019-Current: Sea Cry Sage
- Little Girls Theatre Company, Cornwall & Devon
- 2010-Current: CIC England and World Tour
- Marked Exim Dance Company
- 2019: Mid Summer Night's Dream
- Animate Theatre Company, Plymouth, Devon
- 2010: Alice Tea Party @ National Trust
- Burn the Curtain Theatre Company
- 2018: Two Tribes
- Animate Theatre Company, Plymouth, Devon
- 2018: Chill in The Night
- Sterts Youth Theatre, Cornwall
- 2018: Third Light
- Minack Theatre, Cornwall
- 2018: 100: UnEarth
- Wildworks, Heligan Gardens, Cornwall
- 2018: Clay Walks
- SpinDrift Dance Company, Cornwall
- 2018: Before I Wake
- Scary Little Girls Theatre Company, Cornwall & Devon
- 2017: Wizard of Oz
- Accesses Theatre, Cornwall
- 2017: Wolf Child
- WildWorks, Helston, Cornwall
- 2017: Into The Woods
- No Walls Creative Arts, Devon
- 2017: Urine Town
- Plymouth University Musical Theatre Group, Devon
- 2016: The Story Smiths
- Scary Little Girls Theatre Company, Cornwall & Devon
- 2016: The Raising
- Heather Walrond Dance Company, International
- 2016-1017: Etch
- Exim Dance Company, Cornwall & Devon
- 2016: Alice in Wonderland
- Animate Theatre Company, Plymouth, Devon
- 2016: Sweeney Todd
- Plymouth University Musical Theatre Group, Devon
- 2015: The Wizard of OZ
- Animate Theatre Company, Devon
- 2015: Oh What A Lovely War
- Plymouth City College Performing Arts, Plymouth
- 2015: Mad Dog Pig Art Production
- Barbican Theatre, Plymouth Devon
- 2014: The Finger Of Gold
- Drum Theatre, Plymouth Devon
- 2014: Third Light
- Sterts Theatre, Cornwall
- 2014: Golden Tree Production
- Gog & Magog, Cornwall
- 2014: Sweeny Todd
- Gaslight Theatre Company, Cornwall
- 2013-2014:
The Bureau of Extraordinance Survey - Burn the Curtain Theatre Company
- 2013: Seize The Day
- Kernocpia Theatre Company, Cornwall
- 2012-2013:
Adventures of Don Quixote by Bicycle - Burn the Curtain Theatre Company
- 2013: The Fish Hearted Bride
- Effervescent Social-Alchemy
- 2012: Cornish Sporting Treasures on World Stage
- Kernocpia Theatre Company, Cornwall
- 2011: The Wild Bride
- Keen-High Theatre Company
- 2011: The Adventures of Uncle Lubin
- Burn the Curtain Theatre Company
- 2010-2012:
Enchanted Place, Kensington Palace - WildWorks Land Scrape Theatre Company
- 2010: Alice Tea Party @ National Trust
- Burn the Curtain Theatre Company
- 2009: Beautiful Journey
- WildWorks Land Scrape Theatre Company
- 2007: Costumes for costume library
- Eden Project
- 2002: The Man who Owned the World
- Eden Project
- 2001: Angels Playing
- Eden Project
Theatre Designer
- The Barbican Theatre, Devon
- Closing the Gap, Four Moods Swing, Fame Game, Dancers United, Arabian Nights, Blood Thirsty, Puss-in-Boots, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Harry.com, and Sharper Edge
- Theatre Royal, Plymouth, Devon
- Playhouse 2005, Assembly 2004, The Musicians and When I was a Young Girl I used to Scream and shout
- 1992 to date: Educational Theatre
- Leader of theatre based workshops in drama and design for young people and adults in South West & London
- 1992-2008:
The Mini Actors Drama Company - (Company Director) University of Plymouth, Devon
- Tiny & Young People Design Company
- TR2/Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Film
- 2016: Endeavour We Shall Win
- Costume, Devon
- 2012: Brothers in Arms
- Costume, London
- 2010: War Horses
- Consultancy, Devon
