Last Exhibition
Essence of the Ards Peninsula Exhibition
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An exhibition of work by the Portaferry Art Society. They currently have 40 members who work across a wide variety of mediums and thrive when coming together to inspire each other sharing skills, knowledge and enthusiasm culminating in creating art influenced by this dramatic landscape they call home. A selection of work by members is exhibited in The Cafe, North Down Museum, Bangor. 17th November- 5th January 2025.
Past Exhibitions
Gallery 545 group exhibition at the Island Arts Centre, 7th September - 5th October 2024. 3 of my pieces were shown in this, View From Here No 4, Fintra and Annaghmakerrig.
Joint exhibition in Lisburn Library with Janet Hackey. September 2024.
It is often the space between the fixed points in which life happens, experiences exist within the liminal. In this exhibition Sarah McWilliams brings together her 2019-21 abstract painting series, entitled Transitional States, with new work developed on residency at the Tyrone Gutherie Centre in 2023 with the bursary awarded by Newry Mourne and Down Council. Her work continues to explore themes surrounding boundaries and belonging
R-Space Gallery,Spring Fling, Summer 2022 Spring Fling is an eclectic mix of art and craft work by artists with close connections to R-Space Gallery. This spring sale exhibition has work ranging from painting to glass textiles to ceramics. The varying themes and motifs of the work cover ideas from domestic objects to rural surroundings.
‘ Earthly Things’ ran from October to December 2017, at All Saints Welcome Space, Kings Heath, Birmingham. The work exhibited is from my 2016 exhibition, with the addition of a few new pieces. The assemblages are often constructed as a form of memorial or homage to an individual and create highly symbolic narratives through the juxtaposition of everyday objects and images.
Sarah McWilliams and Lesley Whitehead at the opening of their joint exhibition at R-Space Gallery Lisburn, 15th July, 2017
Gallery shot from the Dealing with Debris exhibition at R-Space Gallery 2017.
Exhibition 2016. In the spirit of the victorian Cabinet of Curiosities, objects have been collected together by way of exploring the value of sentiment, the patina of nostalgia and the hoarding of personal relics. Compositionally, 'Earthly Things' creates order from a hoard, excavated from belongings that have been collected, inherited and found. The construction of this fictional archive of 'ready mades' eludes to a narrative, the symbolism and juxtaposition of items suggestive of a fairytale.
Group Exhibition 2015