Liam Witter
Liam Witter was born in 1988, he lives and works in Newcastle (GB).
Liam Witter’s practice is manifested through public interventions. These consist of subversive actions that take place in urban environments. His goal is to explore how urban development, regeneration, and public art can be transcribed into the real world. For Liam, visual arts represent a non-verbal communication, allowing the viewer to experience the point of convergence between Erfahrung (the experience documented by facts) and Erlebnis (the lived experience). He seeks to create a dialogue between these two types of experiences, producing works that represent history with a certain fluidity, using the study of proxemics—the spatial interactions between people, which vary depending on culture. He is particularly interested in spatial transformations through both staged and spontaneous events, preferring to base his work around a specific event that itself encroaches upon an urban environment, documenting how these transformations manifest through human interactions. The interpretation of these events materializes in a monument dedicated to the lived experience.
Liam Witter has shown his work in the exhibitions White Wilderness, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle Upon-Tyne (GB), 2011; Newcastle Fine Arts (Graduate) Show, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon-Tyne (GB), 2011; Newcastle Fine Arts (Graduate) Show, Shoreditch Town Hall, London (GB), 2011; Winter-term Show, VŠVU, Bratislava (SK), 2010; Eggs Dreaming of Utah, Star & Shadow, Newcastle Upon-Tyne (GB), 2008.
