William Button (b. 1999) lives and works in London, Uk. His work blurs the functional and the ornate, moving between the disciplines of design and sculpture. Button investigates how the seemingly obective, taxonomic retelling of history abstracts our understanding of the past.
Recent exhibitions include; The Acoustic Tunnel, group show at the Crypt Gallery, 2023, London, UK. Matchbox Walkie-Talkie, group show at Drop Studios, 2022, London, UK. Lesion, a duo show at Usual Business, 2022, London, UK. Underneath the Wild Garden Waits to Grow, a group show in Brockley Comunitiy Gardens, 2021, London, UK. Latent Traces, a group degree show at Changing Room Gallery, 2021, London, UK. His writing has been published in Camper Vol. II, 2024, San Francisco, USA, and Conversations, a collection of essays with foreword by Cambell Hector, 2021, London, UK. Button recieved his BA from Central St Martins in 2021, London, UK.