Georgia Williams

Georgia Williams is a curator and photographer based in Gloucester. She has curated & worked on shows such as ‘New Black Narrative’ at RWA, ‘Beating Back the Past’ and ‘Storeys: Clapham Court’, a site-specific series of installations in Gloucester. Georgia founded the 160Barton gallery within the Picturedrome. After completing her MA in Curation in 2021 at Birmingham university, she returned to Gloucester. She went to JOLT, meeting Lloyd Williams, who introduced her to Jacqui Grange, who introduced her to Rider at the Picturedrome. On her first visit, she knew the room opposite Rider’s studio would make a great gallery - shortly after, she renovated the gallery with a grant, herself and Rider co-curating ‘Cities are people and people are cities’, an exhibition of archive images of Gloucester Carnival. She then produced 8 solo exhibitions in the first year, alongside a community programme with talks, films, and discussion groups. Georgia explained ‘Gloucester has a ceiling to how critical it can be, how contemporary it can be. Look at the people in power - pay attention to who should be in the room.’ She now works for Musicworks, and a DYCP (Developing Your Creative Practice) grant recipient, travelling England to research arts spaces in small cities with a view to bring this knowledge back to Gloucester. Georgia feels ‘Art needs to do a service, Art as a space to care, to heal, to talk, to feel safe. Not art for art's sake’.