Quinten Edward Williams attended the University of the Witwatersrand, from which he holds a Bachelor of Art in Fine Arts (2010) and a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts (2014). He lives and works in Johannesburg and experiments with various media, including painting and print.
Williams is intrigued by the printing process, as he sees some similarities to the way he has been using acrylic paints in terms of “glistering colors, painterly marks, drawing marks and layers, one on top of the other”.
The mark-making, layering, and color choices in Quinten Edward Williams’s work resonate with his interest in the movements that make urban-rural environments, and the inherent uncertainty of interaction in those complex systems. His paintings, sculpture, and prints are formal arrangements of observed or hypothetical moments from those environments. Williams employs the notion of sketching as a tool to understand his making-thinking process: a codification process which is open to change and creates affect.