The two-year pilot fellowship has been launched by the Freelands Foundation to help emerging artists develop their practice. Will comes to Brighton's School of Art following a BA at Bath University and Masters at Glasgow School of Art, and is focusing on teaching the second year of the Fine Art Painting BA(Hons) course. Since graduating, he has had solo exhibitions across the UK, as well as in Chile, Spain and Norway.
As well as the Fellowship funds and access to Brighton studio facilities, he will also collaborate with fine art teaching staff as well as students, and receive a solo exhibition at the university. He will also take part in a group exhibition at the Freelands Foundation Gallery in London.
Will said: “I am a video installation artist working with ideas around video game worlds, mainly in the mediums of film, print and sculpture. I am teaching through the work I make, and enabling discussions around the expansion and exploration of virtual worlds and their potential to extend the language of painting. My work draws parallels with the virtual nature of painting and the medium of video games.