Gemma Williams

Gemma Williams is an emerging Australian artist currently based in Sydney. Her vivid, gestural paintings explore nature and landscape as metaphors for memory and experience, and playfully shift between representation and abstraction, imagination and reality, and the familiar and the unknown.

The colours found in nature serve as a means of communication and inspiration in Gemma’s paintings. Using scale manipulation, representational distortion and vibrant colour combinations, she captures the sensations and perception of place – dusk by the sea, ambient temperatures, time passing, and the many tones, moods and impressions of the landscape.

Gemma has an interest in experimenting with colour and composition, having worked for more than two decades as an Art Director on the leading design, fashion and travel magazines Vogue Living, British Vogue and Condé Nast Traveler.

Gemma has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School and a Bachelor of Visual Communications from the University of Technology, Sydney

Years of working in magazine design and alongside photographers has shaped her understanding of colour and composition and honed her aesthetic. Her ongoing interest in form and colour led to the decision to leave publishing to explore a more visceral mode of expression through painting.

On completion of her degree in 2023 Gemma was awarded the Harvey Galleries National Art School Exhibition Prize and the National Art School BFA graduate, COSO Architecture Landscape Prize. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at .Mcontemporary Darlinghurst, Harvey Gallery, Ditty Wheels and at the National Art School and Waverley Woollahra Art School in Sydney and is held in private collections across Australia.