(1925-2007)
Concrete poetry, graphics, painting,performance. A leading Fluxus artist, he had a considerable input into documenting the activities of the group. The author of one of the first anthologies of concrete poetry. Williams treated text as visual material that could be shaped and transformed so as to invest it with new meanings. On occasions, he used plays on words, and randomness had a part in the way that his works were constructed. One of his trademarks was what he called ‘recycling’ –re-using his own works. He created new works on the reverse of the old ones or made use of sheets of paper with random holes and cuts, photocopying them or covering with sprayed paint.