In 2003 Sean Williams graduated from Queensland College of Art with Honours and went on to work in the public art sector developing local and international projects. Sean received the Emerging Artist award at the 2017 SWELL Sculpture Festival. In 2018 he was awarded Arts Queensland RADF grant to fund a mentorship with Emeritus Professor Patricia Hoffie, and in 2020 an Arts Queensland grant for an Assistant Curator role at SWELL. In 2022 he graduated from the Master of Visual Arts program at Queensland College of Arts with distinction. 2023 saw his first solo exhibition entitled Embodied Memories.

Artist Statement
Accidental Archive is an installation work consisting of sculptural and projection elements, that explores concepts around cultural memory and the history of Ipswich. Through the use of the embodied memory of objects, the form of the assembled sculpture, and archival media as projection, Sean examines the interaction of different ways of approaching memory.