Illustration & Design
Art practice
Drawings
© William Denis
Illustration & Design
Art practice
Drawings
© William Denis
Works
Illustrations & Design
Death by 269 cuts!
A series of visuals spread to share student support with the staff on strike at Goldsmiths University during the Degree Show 2026.
ONHAPASLAMÊMEVIE - Visual identity
Cover, CD and other visuals for ONHA’s mixtape ‘ONHAPASLAMÊMEVIE’ vol.1.
Release party poster at the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels.
Sainte-Ode au fil de l’eau
Cover and series of illustrations for ‘Sainte-Ode au fil de l’eau’, a touristic brochure for the region of Sainte-Ode and Bastogne, in the Belgian Ardennes.
Printed and distribued by the Bastogne tourist office, 15x21 cm
Goldsmiths Graduate Diploma catalogues & posters
Degree show catalogue
Degree show poster
Bringue
A zine of wild illustrations made in collaboration with Hippolyte Lesseliers to celebrate the comeback of spring in Brussels, somewhere between the terrace reopenings and old villagish - cultish rituals linked to this specific period of the year.
Presented by Library Mothership at Offprint London 25, Offprint Paris 25, Biblioteka Art Book Fair London, I Never Read: Art Book Fair Basel, and Library Mothership Reading Room Pop-up in Milan.
60 pages, 13x20cm, printed on Comcolor at ‘Les Ateliers du Toner’.
Chemist Gallery exhibition catalogue
‘Threshold’ exhibition - catalogues
3x 36 pages, A4 format, printed at ‘Les Ateliers du Toner’ in Comcolor.
Le Rat, Frère des lisières
Cover and series of illustrations for ‘Le Rat, Frère des lisières’, a beautiful text by Julie Delfour exploring humanity’s physical and psychic coexistence with the rat.
Published by Klincksieck Editions, 12x18cm
Le Fou du village de Salmaritin
Salmaritin is a fictive village born from the meeting of “La S Grand Atelier”, an Art Brut contemporary center, and myself, where the notion of deviance is constantly questioned within a psychiatric background. In this imaginary space, every artist of “La S” gave themselve a specific role while I incarnated the fool confronting the village’s norms and rules. Through a human, organic and artistic dialogue, I created relationships with the inhabitants of this strange village.
In this book, I tell the story of how I encountered the artists of the atelier in a lineary way during three months, event by event, slowly becoming closer and friends in the end. Through the artworks made together, the crazy anecdotes that happened everyday in this place and interviews with specialists of Art Brut and the psychiatric institution about the importance of the village fool, this work is a celebration of deviance and madness.
300 pages, 24x32cm
Courtesy La "S" Grand Atelier
Lauréat des Amis de La Cambre 2024
Parties
ONHA - OPALE visual identity
Visual and artistic direction for Belgian rapper ONHA’s global identity and his forst project, OPALE.
Poster, merch and costume design for OPALE release party.
A series of visuals made for ONHA’s concerts.
Conversation Matters - Le village sans fous
Those texts contain a research on the importance of the «village fool» figure within society and the psychiatric institution, and also an interview of Anne-Françoise Rouche, the director of a renowned Art Brut Contemporary center in Belgium called « La S Grand Atelier ». To illustrate these subject matters, I realised a series of illustration around the theme of the “fool” and took pictures at La S Grand Atelier.
Courtesy La "S" Grand Atelier
Roscosmic propaganda
In collaboration with Belgian artist and space searcher Louise Charlier, I worked on a series of posters of propaganda for her space agency called Roscosmic.
Le départ de papa
This work is a personal story about the time my dad went to ex Yugoslavia as a peace maker when I was five, in 2006. Going through letters and pictures we sent each other at that time, I wrote a text about how I viewed war as a child, with a vision that went from the heroic idea of it I would see on television, to the reality of a parent’s absence, which you worry about, and make you not want him to be a hero anymore. Through this story of a growth of maturity, I illustrated the text and the feelings of a kid confronted to this situation.
20 x 28 cm, 120 pages
Virginia’s houses
This works tells, through text and illustrations, the life of Virginia Woolf in three different books representing the three main houses of her life. The first book is focused on her childhood and the system she grew in, the second on her youth and progressist movements at the time, and the final one on her adult life, publication and legacy. I wrote, drew and designed the three books.
Marni theater visual identity
“Les Belles Lettres” publication
In august 2022, I worked for French publisher “Les Belles Lettres” to illustrate a text about how sci fi works in our consciousness next to casual sciences, written by philosoph Vincent Bontems and physician Roland Lehoucq.
Art practice
Digging an oasis
Metal structures based on old farming tools, motor, 58 plastic balls, extracted text transfers from ‘cinetracts’, orange naylon, RAF eyes transferred onto glass sheet, clay bricks & tiles, screenprinted archives of the years of lead, acrylic, wood boards & structures.
Installation presented at the Goldsmiths MFA Interim Show
Material Damage - Nostalgia
Metal sculptures, glazed and screenpprinted clay bricks, monoprints, CD player with speakers, orange naylon, transfer print on glass and vinyl.
Presented at the exhibition ‘When lights break the dark’ at the Bomb Factory Art Foundation in Holborn, London.
‘Interventional Catalogue’ installation presented for Goldsmiths Studio Sessions.
Eye against eye, 2x 96 pages, printed and hand binded in Deptford, London.
Collected by the Artist’s Book Collection of the Rikhardinkatu Library, Helsinki, and Library Mothership, London. Presented at Offprint London 2026 and the Helsinki analog festival.
Works - November 2025
Installation, wood panels, screenprinting on glassine, transfer print, acrylic paint, bricks & ceramics tiles.
Graduate Diploma in Arts - Degree Show 2025, Goldsmiths
Corpogeography - painting series
Charcoal, acrylic and spraypaint on canvas, 90x120cm
Works presented at the ‘Threshold’ exhibition at Chemist gallery - photos by Satrxx
Artwork details
Workers leaving the factory
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, ink on acrylic sheet mounted onto metal frames.
Artwork details
The village of Salmaritin
This installation is the final act of the project of “Salmaritin” made during three months at “La S Grand Atelier”, an Art Brut Contemporary center located in the Belgian Ardennes. We collectively created a fictive village where every artist would have a specific role, a place where to live and work, and I would be the village fool, since I had to adapt to the rules and norms of the atelier to meet the people there.
Once all was set and everybody had drawn their own house, we built out of cardboard a maquette of Salmaritin and made it a whole playground to create anything around it.
On the back right of the maquette, there’s a mountain atop of which is a fictive version of a psychiatric hospital close to the atelier, standing there to remind the village of the institution it lives in. From its point of view, every house in the village turns its back from it.
160 x 160 x 90 cm
Some of the houses of Salmaritin, made by the artists for themselves.
Courtesy La "S" Grand Atelier
Lauréat des Amis de La Cambre 2024
Drawings of Salmaritin
Courtesy La "S" Grand Atelier
Lauréat des Amis de La Cambre 2024
Drawings
Sketchbook 2025
Sketchbook 2024
Sketchbook 2024
Sketchbook 2023