Nomad**

The tour explores the idea of artist as nomad. Williams is interested in the idea of being able to create work in different places at different times, rather than the model of artist-creator-in-studio. Experience has shown nthat her work has a significant freedom when she is able to work on site, responding to the makeup of place, time and interactions of others. She is aware of the public vulnerability the work posses, as each piece does not come with a guarantee that it will work out. Ideas from the start of each project are conceived as thoughts, but as the pieces are made, the painting begun, the sculptures installed, it is only when Williams can see her thoughts that the real process of visual problem solving begins. She employs a range of problem-solving skills to then find a satisfactory visual answer to what she has created, as the artist always has to problem solve, work with what they have to allow it to reach the most satisfying end point it can reach. Then move onto the next piece.

The work of Kathy Williams has always had the fluid ability to reflect statements of her life. Different times and places, emotions and ideas, friends and family…every decision we make affects each moment we have…we can go down wrong paths, amazing paths. The moment is always temporary.