Wednesday 14 June 18:00 - 20:30

October Gallery
24 Old Gloucester Street
London
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Private View: Aubrey Williams: Future Conscious

Performing & Visual Arts

A solo exhibition of recently rediscovered works by the renowned artist Aubrey Williams

October Gallery presents Future Conscious, a solo exhibition comprising a selection of recently rediscovered paintings and works on paper by Aubrey Williams. The exhibition spans three decades β€” from the 1960s to the 1980s β€” and highlights Williams’ prescient understanding of, and concerns regarding, the mounting problems impacting environmental and ecological stability.

Williams, often cited as being ahead of his time, trained as an Agricultural Officer in Guyana in the early 1940s. He was finely attuned to the complexities of these interactive systems in ways that anticipated, by decades, our own recent awakening to the urgency and seriousness of the environmental crises now looming over humanity. As awareness of mankind’s destabilising impact on his environment increases in this newly defined Anthropocene age, there is a particular poignancy to this resurgence of interest in an important artist who was deeply engaged with these issues more than a half century ago.

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