In Transience – incidents and interventions: Gary James Williams

19 September – 8 November 2009

Manchester-based artist Gary James Williams makes us look again at everyday items. In the past three years he has researched and produced a series of unique, hyper-real sculptures.

Playing with scale and materials Williams has produced a fascinating range of works. From an oversized paper airplane to a delftware fire extinguisher, seemingly ordinary objects are re-imagined. The result is an exhibition that encourages visitors to roam through an archive of the mind that tells of being ‘in transience’ – inventing a new fictional geographic/cultural space.

The work grew from a residency in 2006 at the Van Dijk Maxillo Faciaal Tandtechnisch Laboratorium in the Netherlands. At Gallery Oldham an extensive series of new works are displayed for the first time. One central feature is a large scale installation featuring the Nield Herbarium from the Gallery’s own natural history collection.