"I feel out of this world about receiving this award," Williams tells The Art Newspaper. The 35-year-old Montréal based Anishinaabe artist is known for his multidisciplinary and often collaborative practice that is centred around sculptural beadwork and renderings of contemporary found objects, from bingo cards to lawn chairs.
"To receive this award validates my practice working with beads," he says. "This has been a medium my ancestors have worked with for a long time. To be acknowledged for working with a material like this is breathing new life into the practice. And for curators, peers and the jury to be accepting of this practice feels wonderful."
"The jury felt compelled to recognise the undeniable energy and pertinence of Nico Williams's approach to contemporary sculptural beadwork that allows us to imagine new possibilities for the medium," Shaughnessy said. "His impeccably precise artworks transform everyday objects to the level of the spectacular and weave personal experiences into broadly relatable narratives.
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