Disrupted Landscapes (2020 - 2025) comments on the exclusionary politics of contemporary England through the metaphor of the English landscape and has inequality at its core. It distorts and displaces images of the white cliffs of Dover and Kent coastal landscape to suggest the fracturing of the idealization of the English landscape and the increasingly hostile environment of a country divided by class, geography, and wealth in the post-Brexit age.

Mandy Williams is a photographer, sound and video artist based in London. Since 2016 her projects have focused on English coastal landscapes. She is interested in using them metaphorically - they have become a place for her to explore themes of solitude and grief, and to reflect on contemporary politics and environmental issues.

In her black and white photographs of the coastal chalk landscape in Kent and Sussex she applies graphic elements, cutting up the landscape into shards and splinters of space, shattered and disconnected from where they came. Isolated geologies float in darkness; partial barriers suggest borders that enclose and separate.

Mandy Williams studied History of Art at Warwick University and Communications (Film) at Goldsmith’s College, London. She completed an MA in Photography at the UAL London College of Communication.

She has shown her work in the UK and overseas. Exhibitions include Print Now at London Art Fair, Resonance Open at Raven Row, Disrupted Landscapes at Four Corners, and Earth Photo 2024 at Royal Geographical Society. Her videos have been selected for many film festivals, winning Best Experimental Short in 2021 and Best Director, Documentary Short Film in 2024. She is a member of several collectives.