Aubrey Williams
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Aubrey Williams was a prominent artist and art lecturer in the United Kingdom
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Williams was educated and worked in the Civil Service
. During service in the North West jungle of Guyana
he lived for two years with an indigenous tribe, the Warrau, which became one of the formative influences of his life.
Hearing the Indians talking about colour and form, Williams "started to understand what art really is". Much of his work came from his involvement in the work of South American Indians, and these visual and cultural influences are an evident preoccupation of Williams' early work.
In 1954, Williams settled in Britain where he studied briefly at St Martin's School of Art. He started showing his work in numerous exhibitions throughout the 1950s and the early 1960s. Williams was one of the founding members of the Caribbean Artists Movement (1966-72) and had a pioneering role in the development of black visual culture in Britain, which was to have an inestimable influence on the British art scene for the next fifteen years. Williams exhibited and lectured extensively, maintaining studios in Jamaica
and later Florida
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
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Williams was educated and worked in the Civil Service
Civil service
The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....
. During service in the North West jungle of Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
he lived for two years with an indigenous tribe, the Warrau, which became one of the formative influences of his life.
Hearing the Indians talking about colour and form, Williams "started to understand what art really is". Much of his work came from his involvement in the work of South American Indians, and these visual and cultural influences are an evident preoccupation of Williams' early work.
In 1954, Williams settled in Britain where he studied briefly at St Martin's School of Art. He started showing his work in numerous exhibitions throughout the 1950s and the early 1960s. Williams was one of the founding members of the Caribbean Artists Movement (1966-72) and had a pioneering role in the development of black visual culture in Britain, which was to have an inestimable influence on the British art scene for the next fifteen years. Williams exhibited and lectured extensively, maintaining studios in Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
and later Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
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