Teresa Williams Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

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Since completing my Photography MA (Falmouth) in autumn 2019, I have been working hard to establish myself as a visual artist in the digital field. Alongside this I have been a support to my elderly parents and cared for children of key workers in my family during the pandemic . I primarily create intricate, digitally painted composites, as a method of contemporary nostalgic storytelling.

I am a visual artist who makes multi-layered stories with photography at their core. I’ve been selected to exhibit both in the UK and internationally, some of my exhibitions were cancelled during 2020/21.

My work, often playful, explores and reimagines the ordinary. I intervene with the image, layering to weave threads that are literal and metaphoric. I work and exhibit predominantly with digital methods of image making, with some tactile collage making as a way to relax and get new ideas for digital work.

Interested in the stories behind found photographs, I investigate, reimagine, and place them into contemporary settings. Repurposing photographs gives me creative freedom to reconnect narratives fractured by the passing of time, blurring boundaries between fact and fiction.

‘Hub’, a series of digital composites, was made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust. The solo exhibition was shown at the Derngate Theatre, with one of the images selected selected for inclusion at the #EveryDayDoraMaar UNIQLO Tates Lates display at Tate Modern in January 2020.

‘Topple’ and ‘Erosion’ (both 2020) were selected for RevoltReviveRekindle online exhibition and postcards book in collaboration with NN Contemporary Art, June 2021.

My largest series to date, ‘Not many people here yet’ was exhibited in the Photo Oxford festival 2021; with two of its digital composites selected for Photograd Zine in February 2022.

I completed a short course in Adobe After Effects in Spring 2022.