Martin Williams
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MARTIN WILLIAMS
Martin has studied at art schools including Bondi/Waverley Art School, and since 2005 The Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School in Erskineville, Sydney, Australia. Following a career in advertising and 20 years in academia, Martin gained a Bachelor of Fine Art from National Art School in 2022. He now paints and sculpts full time and in 2026 is a continuing student at Julian Ashton Art School. Martin was a finalist in the bi-annual TOM BASS PRIZE for Figurative Sculpture 2022, and finalist for painting, The Gallipoli Memorial Prize 2023, The Clyde Art Prize 2023 and winner of The Sculpture Society Woolloomooloo exhibition, Australian Bronze prize 2023. Finalist in the Eco Warrior section of SWAG, the Sydney Wearable Art Gala, staged at Enmore Theatre November 2023 and regularly at Sculpture in the Garden in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and Sculpture Bermagui in 2026.
Martin is a figurative painter and sculptor, who has broadened his scope to embrace his own abstract realities in both mediums. His work in paint is brightly coloured, festive and optimistic, soothing and restful, reflected in his smaller sketches of Australian landscapes. His work in oil paint tends to be larger, more dramatic but no less colourful, envisaging Australian scenes both urban and bush. Over the last four years in moving into marble sculpture, studying at the Atelier of Al Nassar in Carrara; his works have taken on more understandably figurative forms derived from close study where shaping in both marble and bronze, he is able to abstract his ideas in a pleasing manner in a distinct quest for beauty in movement.
FINALIST Australia's premiere figurative sculpture competition, the Biannual TOM BASS PRIZE 2022.
FINALIST Gallipoli Prize 2023.
FiNALIST Clyde & Co Annual Art Prize 2023 and 2024.
WINNER Australian Bronze Prize Sculpture Society, Woolloomooloo 2023.
Dr Martin Williams FCIM., BFA.
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Website: Martinwilliamsartgallery.com