World Without Objects

Stephen Willats extends his enquiry into the idea of the local through Signs and Messages (2013), which captures the visual language of a walk along two busy streets in Antwerp (two contrasting communities : Statiestraat Berchem and the shopping street of Antwerp axis De Keyzerlei – Meir).

World Without Objects includes a striking mural work, which reflects on architecture and urban living, depicting high rise tower blocks with oversized ceramic vases in primary colours.


‘All art is a product of society, of relationships between people in which it is quite clear that the most important element in the network between the artist and society is the audience. For without two people there can be no work of art.’

Stephen Willats