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Cam is a British queer, working class artists that uses paint as a methodology in researching social relationships to community spaces.
About
Cam Williamson (She/They) is an artist and researcher based in Plymouth, UK, with a specialism in social realism, painting, and place making. She is currently researching community spaces and how people have a social relationship with their environment as a part of her current Ph.D. at the University of Plymouth. Her practice is rooted in her experiences of being queer and working class, while bringing in feminist, decolonial, and postmodernist ideologies to further interrogate socio-spatial hierarchies.
By using paint as a methodology, Cam uses layers to capture shifting perspectives and the contradicting multiplicity of reality. A space is riddled by opposing truths; a space claimed by a community can also be the property of distant ownership, or influenced by both positive and negative memories simultaneously. Cam’s method of layering the paint, with each layer peaking through the other, allows her to contemplate these contradictions, making her work both a continuation of the socio-spatial narrative and an archive of these experiences. By painting on materials that contextually follow the socio-spatial narrative of the painting, Cam invites audiences to reevaluate their relationship to the non-human elements of their own environment.
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