Matt's Gallery is delighted to announce the representation of Michelle Williams Gamaker
Apart from being a truly wonderful artist Michelle is a joy to work with and has all the right qualities that will make her a great addition to Matt’s Gallery. We are excited to embark on the next stage of our journey together and we look forward to working with her to support her in making truly great work in the future.
Robin Klassnik, Director, Matt’s Gallery
Michelle Williams Gamaker is an artist working in moving image, installation and performance, often in dialogue with film history. Through an interrogation of cinema and its artifice, she recasts characters as 'fictional activists', proposing critical alternatives to colonial and imperialist storytelling in early 20th-century British and Hollywood studio films.
We have been working with Williams Gamaker since 2021, when we screened The Dissolution Trilogy (2017-2019) as part of our MattFlix programme. After that she developed The Jean Fisher Archive Reading Group delivering five sessions in 2022-23 that, together with guest speakers, explored articles and objects from the archive of the late Jean Fisher (1942–2016), a critic and writer and former lecturer of Williams Gamaker. Most recently we worked with her to deliver Strange Evidence, an ambitious new film and installation that turned the gallery into a working film set. She is currently editing the footage shot at Matt's Gallery in June to create a new moving image work, scheduled to tour the UK in 2026.
Williams Gamaker is joint winner of Film London’s Jarman Award (2020) and exhibits her films nationally and internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery (2022), BFI Flare (2017) and BFI London Film Festivals (2018, 2021), Aesthetica Short Film Festival (winner of Best Experimental Film 2021 and 2023), Whitechapel’s The London Open (2022), Sharjah Film Platform 6 (2023). In 2022, she received a Film London Production Award to produce Thieves (2023) and in 2023, BFI commissioned Oberon (2023) as part of their Red Shoes: Beyond the Mirror exhibition for the Powell and Pressburger Season. Her work is part of the Arts Council Collection and her entire filmography will be part of the BFI National Archive in 2026 and is distributed by LUX. Williams Gamaker’s major institutional solo, Our Mountains are Painted on Glass premiered at South London Gallery (2023) and toured to Dundee Contemporary Arts and Bluecoat, Liverpool (2024). She is a Professor in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.