Icelandic artist, Kristjana S Williams studies graphics and illustration at Central St Martins. After a very short time, she received critical acclaim as the creative director of Beyond the Valley for eight years in a row. In 2011 she began to create works of art, illustrating books, designing interior objects and more.
Her designs are inspired by nature and his technique involves the digital and physical layering of nature on nature to reflect symmetry in all living things. Each piece is its magical universe of exotic plants and animals.
Kristjana's work has become famous throughout the industry by winning numerous awards including a D&AD award, a Clio Award and a first prize at the New York Festivals Grand Prix. His works can be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum and in various galleries.
She recently designed the album covers for the new Coldplays live album "A Head Full of Dreams: Live in Buenos Aires and Live in Sao Paulo".
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Exhibition (selection)
| 2019 | Paul Smith Exhibition Global Flagship Store Royal Salute Exhibition - Seoul Korea The Brown's Hotel London - opere d'arte commissionate Royal Salute - Brand World Design The workshop London, Art Car Boot Fair London Kings Cross, Art Car Boot Fair The Truman Brewery London, The Other Art Fair The Truman Brewery London, London Design Festival The Affordable Art Fair Singapore, TAG Fine Arts The Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, TAG Fine Arts London Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts The International Contemporary Furniture Fair - New York |
| 2018 | London Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts The Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Outline Artist The Affordable Art Fair New York, TAG Fine Arts Paul Smith - Los Angeles The Other Art Fair - Los Angeles The Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, TAG Fine Arts Paul Smith - New York London Kings Cross, Art Car Boot Fair London Victoria House, The Other Art Fair The Other Art Fair - Los Angeles Paul Smith Ablermarle Store - The Explorers 'Voyage Exhibition The Affordable Art Fair Singapore, TAG Fine Arts V&A Museum London - Making Her Self Up. Designed with Frida theme selected for the V&A Shop. A limited edition portrait print of Frida and The Blue House Diorama |
| 2017 | Exhibitions in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York with TAG Fine Arts V&A Museum London - Opera: Passion, Power and Politics exhibition. Designed Opera themed work exclusively for the V&A Shop. The Palais Garnier Callas Opera Journey Diorama and an Opera mask with finish it off yourself element sheet to further decorate the mask. |
| 2016 | London - Design Junction Dyslexic design The Dyslexic Design exhibition, curated by one of the UK’s leading designers Jim Rokos, will challenge perceptions of dyslexia by accentuating the positive effects of living with dyslexia and its close association with design.-http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/dyslexic-design Rio - A series of art installations in time for the Olympics - Animated projections, light boxes, internal art - https://www.creativereview.co.uk/kristjana-s-williams-brings-her-cartographic-art-to-rio-in-time-for-the-olympics/ the social media got up to 2.6 million views London Art fairs - The other art fair Bristol, The affordable Art Fair Hampstead, The Affordable Art Fair Battersea, The Other Art Fair, Art Car Boot Fair. New York - Tag fine arts three dimensional art work |
| 2015/19 | London - Pennhaligon Packaging and window store design work coming out this winter Fortnum and Mason Christmas Windows and internal work 2015 Book published the Wonder garden with Wideeyed edition (winner in the English picture book award and shortlisted for the National book award and Blue Peter award) http://www.itsnicethat.com/news/rachel-williams-childrens-book-design-010616 translated into 10 languages so far The Shard - The Knowledge Artwork for their public spaces: The artwork has been transformed into a giant light box and is backlit with over 2,000 individual LED lights that create the ‘flowing’ River Thames and light up key elements to draw the eye in to fun historical facts of London V&A Museum Store for the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition. A unique three dimensional hand paper cut piece customised for each buyer in a limited edition of 10 |
| 2014 | London Art fairs - The affordable art fair Hampstead, The affordable art fair Battersea, Art Car Boot Fair Art Cartography exhibition with the Map house The Connaught Hotel - Fine art work piece and branding journey |
| 2013 | Shanghai - Audio Scape Print Journey at Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Flying spirits were draped in beautiful traditional Chinese silk robes printed with Kristjana’s signature intricate art works, the creatures enticed visitors into listening to their unique, individual sounds through suspended headphones by German audio company, Sennheiser |
| 2012 | London - Anachroquarianism - exhibition and unique artist experiment workshop |
| 2011 | London - Interactive Print Journey - V&A British galleries The public were invited to try their hand at design by interacting with a range of richly patterned prints designed by Kristjana S Williams by using an iPad and an app called Granimator. Users were able to add detail in the form of creatures, floral motifs and gold leafing to a base design before uploading their final creations to share with friends via social media websites. |
| 2003/2011 | London - Helsinki - Beijing Beyond the Valley - By supporting new talent the store was a springboard for young blood and a picking ground for fantastic and unusual finds. The Daily Telegraph Shop Awards and was listed in Time Out’s 2011 Best Independent Store Guide. Beyond The Valley was voted as one of the top 100 UK Cool Brands for the last five years and was by cited by The Observer as one of their Top 50 Design Brands. |