Olly Williamson

  • Alumni, 2023

Biography

Olly Williamson grew up in a village outside of Preston. Before accepting a place on The Drawing Year, he studied Painting at the Manchester School of Art in 2016. Olly makes work about quiet situations of life; utilising intense observation and experimental structures of composition. His images reflect the underlying rhythms of the people and world he sees around him - hoping to make the everyday feel monumental. 

Olly Williamson
Large Charcoal Drawing of A woman with geese and ducks Copyright Olly Williamson
Very Small etching of a Womans Face Copyright Olly Williamson