Caroline williams artist biography

Caroline Williams was.
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Painter, was born in Wellington.

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Painter, was born in Wellington. She studied in Europe 1961-63 then returned to the Elam School of Art, Auckland, and/or the University of Canterbury, Christchurch (1964-67). Her first solo exhibition was in Wellington in 1968. She lived in London and Sydney from 1968 until settling in Melbourne in 1981 where she became the second wife of gallery director Georges Mora. (His first wife was Mirka Mora .) Williams’s exhibitions include Lovers , Museum of Modern Art, Heide (1996), Untitled: Light + Dust; Expanded Field , West Space, Melbourne (1996) and The Vizard Collection , University of Melbourne and touring Victoria (1997). She was also included in the Mosman Art Gallery’s 2001 show of New Zealand artists in Australia.

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Writers:: Staff Writer
Date written:: 1999
Last updated:: 2011

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Caroline Williams is a scholar of Islamic art and architecture, with an expertise in the architecture of Cairo. After receiving a BA from Radcliffe College in history, Caroline traveled through East and Southeast Asia, India, the Fertile Crescent, and the Mediterranean. It was during this trip in 1962 that she first visited Egypt and developed an interest in its history and architecture. After 1962, she returned to Harvard to complete a masters in Middle Eastern Studies and then attended the American University in Cairo, where she earned a second masters in Islamic Art and Architecture. In Cairo, she met her future husband John Alden Williams, who was at that time the director of the Center of Arabic Studies at AUC and a professor of Islamic civilization.

As an independent Scholar, Caroline has lectured and published articles dealing with Cairo in its various guises: as a city shaped by historic and contemporary forces; as a repository of the most concentrated, most varied and most chronologically extended collection of Islamic monuments; as a city discovered in the

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CAROLINE WILLIAMS ‘LANDSCAPE’

By Leslie P Willcocks

(Preface by Joan Spiller)

For a painter suffused with history and the traditions of art, Caroline Williams is frighteningly contemporary. This book presents her landscapes. The powers of nature collide with technology as a product of human energy, ingenuity and arrogance - are they in a dance of technological victory or mutual destruction? Often beautiful, frequently taking the observer outside any comfort zone, always intriguing, highly intelligent and powerful, Caroline William's paintings embrace humour, joy, scepticism, event and warning in distinctive and compelling ways that reveal a true artist at work.

Leslie Willcocks’ interests are technology, politics, organisations and globalisation. The vital question, as we extend our power through such technologies, is whether we can control their limitless expansion or whether we are dooming ourselves to, not just techno-failures, but much larger human and eco-disasters.

The narrative in this volume relates to the history of art, humanity's present predicaments