1943 born London, lives and works in London

Since the early 1960s, established British artist Stephen Willats has initiated many seminal multi-media art projects everywhere from tennis clubs and public galleries to inner city housing estates. Combining cybernetic and philosophical models, information theory, systems analysis, and semiotics with an ideology of community, Willats has developed work that reacts against what he sees as the historical determinism of art. Rather than presenting visitors with icons of certainty he creates a random, complex environment that stimulates visitors to engage in their own creative processes as an alternative to passive observation. Often, Willats' work extends the territory in which art operates, encompassing the socio-urban environment, personal narratives and the everyday as sites in which art can be based.