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​​Candida Powell Williams is a British artist that makes sculptures, installations and performances ranging from theatrical landscapes to intimate grottos, blending ancient esoterica with contemporary vernaculars of play and spectacle. Recent large-scale projects includes a fountain  Auguries through the Mist, a commission by theCOLAB for the Artist's Garden [the world's only sculpture garden dedicated to the work of women artists] on the roof terrace above Temple Tube station in London. Other selected exhibitions and commissions include The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg at The Women’s Art Collection Murray Edwards College Cambridge, 2024; Crystalis, site specific installation Zabludowicz Collection Finland, 2023; The London Open & Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery London, 2022; Tilt Shift: Shadows of the Seasoned Sun, Southwark Park Galleries, London, 2022; The Gates of Apophenia, Bosse & Baum London, 2019; Command Lines, Void Gallery Northern Ireland, 2019; Lessness, still quorum, performance, Serpentine Galleries, London, 2018, Tongue Town, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, 2017; Cache, Art Night Associate Programme, London, 2017; Boredom & Its Acid Touch, performance, Frieze Art Fair, London; Coade's Elixir, Hayward Gallery 2014; Glissando, Salsbury Arts Centre, 2014. CPW regularly contributes to lectures, podcasts and discussions, most recently River of Sound on Resonance FM (Sept 2025) and Soho Radio.

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CPW received a MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2011 where she held the Eric and Jean Cass Sculpture Award and a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art London in 2009.  She was awarded the Mother Art Prize, 2018. She was Artist in Residence at the Warburg Institute 2018-19 and undertook the Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome in 2012-13.  As well as being reviewed widely her work is discussed by Dr Edwin Coomasaru in ‘British Art and the Environment, Changes, Challenges and Responses since the Industrial Revolution’ published by Routledge in 2021.

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CPW is a lecturer in Fine Art and lives and works between London and Cambridge UK

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Recent

Chromatic Hands https://xxijrahii.net/chromatic-hands/ Feb 2026

The Artist's Garden annual lecture, Royal Society of Arts London, Feb 2026

Auguries Through the Mist https://www.thecolab.art/programme ​​​​​​​

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