Simon McWilliams RUA

Simon McWilliams was born in 1970 and studied first at the University of Ulster and then at the Royal Academy School in London, where he received a BFA in 1998. His style incorporates his excellent skills as a draughtsman and abilities as a painter to produce images that give the appearance of a factual place, but blurred with abstraction. His use of vibrant colour works to bring life to the urban architecture construction sites he often uses as his subject matter and is instantly recognisable.
McWilliams has received a number of prestigious prizes during his career including the Guinness Award at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and an award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, along with Gold and Silver Medals from the Royal Ulster Academy.
He has exhibited widely from Belfast to the US, and his work is held in collections within The Ulster Museum, Bank of Ireland and Queen’s University Belfast.