Adam Williamson is an award winning sculptor who has undertaken a long list of
prestigious commissions.

Adam is a skilled geometer, stone/wood carver and practicing artist in many media. 
He has assembled a talented team of artists and craftsmen who assist on large projects. He undertakes interior, architectural and Garden project. He also works on specialist sculptural commissions.
 
There is a recognizable style to Adams work, which is due to a vision for subtle fresh design fused with classic techniques and considered geometry. Extensive time, energy and concern is necessary when making works by hand, it demands a trained eye for detail, respect for the context and an intimate relationship with material.

Adam has been commissioned by among others:- HRH the Prince of Wales, Oxford University, Shakespeare’s Globe London, Kew Gardens, Westminster Abbey, Pakistan Embassy, British council, Foreign Office in Vienna and London Zoo. Follow this link to see progress on his current public artwork project in Wales.


Adam co-founded both The Crossway Foundation & Art of Islamic Pattern. He was a sessional lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London and has given workshops and public lectures at many of the leading cultural institutions in the UK and beyond, including:-

The British Museum, Cambridge University, The British Library, The V&A Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, The Prince's School of Traditional Arts, Asia House and Zaytuna College, Berkeley.

Adam comes from a family of craftsmen and artists, he has traveled the globe to work with artists from diverse backgrounds in places such as Mount Athos in Greece, Spain, Morocco and Turkey. He was the subject of a documentary when he traveled to Malaysia and Indonesia looking at the woodcarving in that area. Adam regularly visits Jamaica working as a consultant for an ongoing PSTA project which is helping a group of woodcarvers start a business.

Adam works from his studio in Hackney wick, London.

Scroll down page for list of selected commissions.



      NEWS


SELECTED COMMISSIONS TO DATE


SCULPTURE

 

Memorial sculpture of HM The Queen Mother commissioned by HRH The Prince of Wales
Public Sculptures commissioned by Bridgend Council and Sustrands for Llnfi Valley Community Route, Wales.

Timeline carved on site at Kew Gardens, unveiled by HM The Queen. The carving is 30 metre's long

Stone carving representing the UK in Austria commissioned by The Foreign office in Vienna
Heraldic relief carved in situ commissioned by the Princes Foundation
The Duke of Rothersay Crest commission by the HRH The Prince of Wales
Carving in Oak for Shakespeare’s Globe London, describing the rebuilding of the timber frame.
29 stone rosettes arranged to form a large arched gate for St Ethelburger's Church, Bishopsgate
Exhibition - March 08
2 Sculptures for a British Council Exhibition 2010
Geodesic Domes and Spheres for the V&A Museum and GPU, Excel centre 2010

 

STONE & WOOD CARVED PLAQUES & AWARDS

Award for Kimberly Clark

 GRAPHICS


'Sufi Poetry' Dr Martin Lings (book cover)
'All Being Well' Health food company (logo)
Kathleen Raine publication (illustration)
St James Palace 'guide map' artwork (copper etching)
The Princes Trust Certificates (original calligraphic model for production)

OTHER

Stained Glass windows, Cambridge College
Animation commissioned by the Golden Web
The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers (Gilding and painted marbling commission)
Large murals for Kenza Restaurant
WCPS award and scholarship for excellence in painting.

 

TEACHING


Asia House
Birkbeck, Worlds Arts and Artefacts programme. January-April 2009
12 classes over 12 week module in Islimi (Arabesque)

British Museum
Birkbeck, Worlds Arts and Artefacts programme. May/June 2007
Guest lecturer on the Richard Henry course Islamic Geometric Art: Persian Patterns led by. Taught two week module in Islimi (Arabesque)

British Library. 7th May 2007
Sacred Ways, a sacred art workshop, painting a large mural in the courtyard of BL with the help of the visiting public.

Reading Museum. 26th May 2007
Calligraphic workshop.

Prince’s School of Traditional art, London. Annually since 2005
Annual PhD and MA full time week long courses in Islimi.

Camden Community School 16th and 17th July 2008
Stone carved totem poles

Buckingham School 23rd June and 4th July
Stone carved African Masks

Raines School, Bethnal Green, London. 18th March 2009
1 day geometry of structure workshop with a maths class.

Sir William Ramsay School, Buckinghamshire 9,10,12thth July 2007
3 day Islamic geometry and stonecarving workshop with pupils from the school.

Kidbrook School. 16,17thth July 2007
2 day gilding workshop

Shakespeare's Globe, Southbank. 22nd November, 2004
1 day art workshop

Plashet, Little Ilford, Forest Gate and Kingsford Schools, East London. 6,8,9th and 10th January, 2007
4-day stone carving workshop

City Hall  ‘Eid in the Square’ Trafalgar Square, London. 28th October 2007
1 day Islamic art workshop, large mural in Trafalgar Square with the help of the visiting public.

Khrishnamurti School, Winchester. 8th - 11th 2005
Arabesque workshops with A-level students

Steiner School, Newcastle, Australia. October-January 2004/24th November-10th January 2005
2 full-time teaching residences in Islamic art, stone carving, gilding and Calligraphy

Kandis Resource centre. January 2006
Paint alchemy workshop taught to woodcarving masters in Malaysian jungle for documentary. Kelantan, Malaysia 2006



Teaching a drawing class in the Australian wild. Carving Limestone