Tracey Williams

Tracey Williams’ work generally appropriates everyday events or things or ideas and re-presents them in ways that ask the viewer to consider ways in which their own sense of reality is constructed. Banal objects are made extraordinary, or grand ideals are customised – highlighting the idea that the same cultural artefacts that limit identity and fix subjectivity can be used by the individual in a process of authorship to begin a new liberating process.

Tracey has studied art in London and New Zealand and  gained an MFA with honours from Elam School of Fine Arts. She has a broad practise – working across disciplines (from printmaking to DV projections) – and shows work regularly around Auckland. She has also shown work in Sydney and London, and completed several independent projects and commissions. Tracey works fulltime as an artist and lives in Auckland with her partner and daughter.

"My practice inspects ideas of ‘little narratives'; or examines the notion of a ‘self' as an imaginary object, while considering modes of authorship; or examines the notion of a ‘self' as an imaginary object selected from the myths and representations of popular culture, while considering how the re-presentation of typecast artefacts can be used as a mode of authorship."