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William Pye in Film, London 2018

William Pye has been making films since the 1960s, recording his life and career as an artist. This exhibition brings together, for the first time, a selection of solo film work as well as collaborations with fellow film makers Ian Helliwell and Sasha Snow. The films are shown on wall projection and eight screens, each with a different subject:

  • Five films by Ian Helliwell
  • Selected TV broadcasts
  • Pye’s USA road movie (1970)
  • Selected exhibitions
  • Selected project stories from 1972 to now
  • Films shot on Super 8 in the 1960s and 70s
  • Water sculpture from 2000 to now
  • Research and development – experiments and demos

The wall projection shows ‘Metallic’ by Ian Helliwell (2017), ‘Sculpting in Water’ by Sasha Snow (2017) and ‘Reflections’ by William Pye (1972)

Dates: 12th February to 4th May 2018

Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm

Royal Society of Sculptors, 108 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RA

Other Exhibitions

Sculpture in a Landscape 1969 – 2020, Wiltshire

Organised by The Friends of the Garden, this exhibition takes place at West Leaze, Wiltshire, the same property used for showing work by 18 contemporary sculptors in 1969, which included William Pye.

The Secret Garden, solo show, Brighton, 2019

As part of the Brighton Festival in May and June 2019, a collection of fourteen of Pye’s water sculptures between 1994 and 2010 and Charioteer, a bronze sculpture from 1964, were shown in the Secret Garden in Kemptown, Brighton.

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