Bedwyr Williams
Bite Worse Than Their Bark, 2020.
Audio, 17 mins.

A site-specific audio artwork taking the form of a dry comic tale inspired by the New Forest as a tourist destination. #biteworsethantheirbark

Originally created for optimum experience whilst here , however in light of Covid 19 we encourage you to sit back, relax and enjoy whilst safe at home. Beware wifi within the forest is limited, downloading recommended.

Bedwyr Williams lives and works in North Wales. Solo exhibitions include: ‘Foundation of things to Come’,  Fondazione Sandretto de Rebaudengo, Turin; ‘The Gulch’, The Curve, Barbican Art Centre, 2016; ‘The Starry Messenger’, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 2015; ‘Echt’, Tramway, Glasgow, 2014; ‘My Bad’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Recent group exhibitions include: ‘Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future’, Hayward Gallery, London, 2018; ‘The Land We Live in - The Land We Left Behind’, Hauser and Wirth Somerset, 2018; ‘Stress Field’, Hubei Museum of Art, China. In 2013 he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for the Artes Mundi Prize in 2016.

Bite Worse Than Their Bark is the first Peal commission, an on-going MTP series of public sound works by leading artists intended to provide individuals with self-led alternative experience of the New Forest woodland or indeed any forest anywhere.