Alison Wilding
Works available
Her Furnace
1987
Patinated copper and brass
86.5 × 39.5 × 35.5 cm / 34 × 15 1/2 × 14 ins
Boxed (Small)
2005
Alabaster and Grey Card
18 × 20 x 10 cm / 7 1/8 × 7 7/8 × 3 15/16 ins
Foreign Body
1997
Copper and silicon rubber
Each part: 23 × 13.5 × 15 cm / 9 × 5 1/4 × 6 ins
Flood Light
2001
Cast acrylic
Edition 4 of 12 plus III
11 × 22 × 17 cm / 4 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 6 7/8 ins
Biography
(1948 -)
Alison Wilding was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. She studied at Ravensbourne College of Art and, from 1970 to 1973, at the Royal College of Art in London. Her sculpture is closely concerned with the physical qualities of materials. She uses traditional as well as contemporary sculptural processes, such as modelling, carving, casting and constructing to explore the contrasts and relationships between materials. Her sculptures often consist of two separate elements, which suggest opposite such as positive-negative, male-female, light-dark. She uses a wide range of different materials, including copper, wood, beeswax, lead, galvanised steel, transparent plastics, silk, fossils, rubber and paints; these enable her to establish unusual juxtapositions of form, colour and surface. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1988 and 1992.
Wilding's first major solo exhibition was held at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1985. Recent solo shows include Rupert Wace, Ancient Art, 2006; Henry Moore Foundation Studio, Dean Clough, Halifax 2000/01 and New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury 2000.