Illustration & Design
Art practice
Drawings
© William Denis
Illustration & Design
Art practice
Drawings
© William Denis
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
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Workers leaving the factory
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, ink on acrylic sheet mounted onto metal frames.
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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
A selection of the artworks made during three months at La S Grand Atelier, an Art Brut Contemporary center located in the Belgian Ardennes. These were made as part of the project of the fictive village Salmaritin, to enlarge the small universe we were building together. They were also vectors for human encounters, and creating links in other ways than through vocal dialogues.
Courtesy La "S" Grand Atelier
Lauréat des Amis de La Cambre 2024