Article relating to an individual, 2009
Published by: Wasafiri
Year published: 2009
Number of pages: 15

Leon Wainwright authoured a number of texts on Aubrey Williams, including an entry on the artist in The Oxford Companion to Black British Culture, edited by David Dabydeen, John Gilmore and Cecily Jones, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 527-528; Aubrey Williams: Atlantic Fire, in the catalogue Aubrey Williams, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 15 January - 11 April 2010, pp. 46 - 55; and this text, Aubrey Williams: A Painter in the Aftermath of Painting, Wasafiri, issue no. 59, Autumn 2009, pp. 65 – 79. Running to some fifteen pages, this was a substantial appraisal of Aubrey Williams, extensively illustrated and footnoted.

The cover of Wasafiri featured a detail of Shostakovich 3rd Symphony Opus 20, 1981, 132 x 203 cm, though the work was not reproduced in the text itself.

In marked contrast to texts about Williams written during his lifetime, posthumous texts on the artist have grown ever more bulky and grandiose. Wainwright’s Aubrey Williams: A Painter in the Aftermath of Painting, was one such example, amongst a number.