"Crewe, it's Part of my Downfall" - Bedwyr Williams

Bedwyr Williams - Artist & Stand up
(accidental comedian)

  Born of Colwyn Bay, Bedwyr was always seen as a bit of an "oddball" in his youth. He was tall, raised in a religious Methodist family and until about the age of 6, he always had to wear an eye patch on his right eye (this image was most certainly a reference to this misfortune). But with these negatives he turns his emotive responses into art, whether that be revenge or just plain insult to those whom he dislikes.
 
An instance of these responses was portrayed later in life than when the inspiration occurred. When Williams was of the age 9-10 years old, he grew out of playing soccer & joined a model train club. However anxiety haunted him whenever he attended as he would have to pass through the billiard room where the more boisterous boys would play pool. The lads would hold up the train clubs passing by blocking with their pool cue however to fill the silence they often uttered insults to the miniature conductors. Williams held it in his heart & vented by expressing himself with fine art. He took pool cues & snapped them, arranged the pool tables to be tipped & askew. The whole arrangement of this piece is very messy which really produces the aggressive tone that he wanted to release. It's this style of art that shows that Bedwyr isn't one to sit & think about how to perform/ create a piece as intelligently as possible, however, he just creates it on the fly. He lets his emotions carry his pieces which allows the audience to really understand his feelings within the piece. If anything the emotion itself is the piece? He has proven to be a great believer of the concept & ideas are the art rather than the pretty picture itself. I myself have always trusted this also & his pieces (are mostly comical in all honesty) really provides the elements to make audiences stop & actually take him the message his is trying to portray.

Another great example of this passive aggression is this piece he created out of gingerbread & marzipan.