Meg Harris Williams

is a writer and artist with a particular interest in the relation between psychoanalysis and aesthetic experience, in poetry and in visual art. She read English at Cambridge and Oxford universities, and studied art in Florence and the UK. Meg has taught and lectured in England, Europe, Scandinavia, South America and the USA. Many papers and book chapters have been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, and Japanese. She is editor of the Harris Meltzer Trust and a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock Centre, and for AGIP and the BAP. She is currently chair of Borderlands Artists Consortium and a member of the Women's Work committee. Her artwork is in private collections in this country and abroad and in the New Hall Women's Art Collection.

New and forthcoming

Society of Women Artists annual exhibition
28 June - 7 July 2012 click here

Intoxication
Borderlands Artists Consortium at Denbies Wine Estate, 30 April - 13 May 2012 click here

Surrey Artists Open Studios
9-24 June 2012 click here

Through the writings of Louise Bourgeois: new perspectives in art and psychoanalysis
Conference at The Freud Museum, 17 March 2012 click here

The BAP Annual Lifedrawing Day
Hyde Hall, Winchester, 28 July 2012 - for last year click here

Louise Bourgeois and the witches
Talk for the Steilneset Memorial Opening Conference, Vardo, 10-11 October 2011

The true voice of feeling: Lear's pilgrimage
Psychodynamic Practice, vol 17 (1), May 2011 click here

Playing with fire: the mythological consciousness
in Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis, edited by Ellen O'Gorman and Vanda Zajko,
Oxford University Press

The child, the container and the claustrum
in Louise Bourgeois: Return of the Repressed, edited by Philip Larratt-Smith,
Violette Editions click here

On austere criticism click here

Genesis of 'the aesthetic conflict' click here

A biography of Martha Harris click here