Alison Mary Wilding

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, RA (born 7 July 1948) is an English artist noted for her multimedia abstract sculptures. Wilding's work has been displayed in galleries internationally.

Life

Wilding was born in

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, Lancashire. Between 1966 and 1967 she studied at the

Nottingham College of Art Founded in 1843, the School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University is one of the oldest in the United Kingdom. History In 1836, the Government Select Committee on Art and Manufactures produced a report highlighting concerns about the ...

, then at the

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from 1967 to 1970 and, from 1970 to 1973, the

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in London. Her artistic career gained momentum in the 1980s when she was part of a group of sculptors including Anthony Gormley and Richard Deacon. Wilding was appointed an Officer of the

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(OBE) in the

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, for services to art. Since 2018 she has been the Eranda Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools. She lives and works in London, and has been represented by

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for over 30 years.

Career and work

Wilding's interest in sculpture was established during her time at the Nottingham College of Art. Her early influences include Constantin Brâncusi and ideas of simple construction. She has used traditional materials, often found as reused, such as wood, stone and bronze, alongside others like steel, wax, silk, and rubber. These are often used in unusual combinations: ''Stormy Weather'' (1987), for example, is made from

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beeswax Beeswax (''cera alba'') is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus ''Apis''. The wax is formed into scales by eight wax-producing glands in the abdominal segments of worker bees, which discard it in or at the hive. The hive workers ...

and oil rubbed into

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. Of her eclectic media, Wilding has said "I like ''stuff'' and not particular materials." Wilding's work typically includes two opposing materials purposed with representing positive and negative forces, creating a balance within the art. She maintains that she is conscious of waste and does not like to produce work that will not be displayed. Wilding self-archives her work, personally giving them unique numbers and descriptions that are logged in small black notebooks. The notebooks also contain key details of her work, such as early designs and logs of her making progress. She has expressed that she would like the books to be destroyed rather than leave them to an institution despite requests from organisations such as the Henry Moore Institute. In addition to sculpture, Wilding has also produced a variety of artworks on paper. On drawings, she says: 'The thing I like about drawings is that they can float. You don’t think about gravity. They do something really different. That is the freedom and pleasure of drawing for me. You are not weighed down by the material world in the same way. So, maybe, they are more imaginative.' Wilding's approach to her work is often active and arbitrary, basing her decisions on her current time and place. She also takes a strictly non-political approach to her work, claiming; 'I don’t think art is going to change anyone’s life, not in the way film can do'. Wilding's first solo exhibition was displayed at the

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in 1985. She was subsequently exhibited at the

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in New York in 1987. In 1991, a major retrospective of Wilding's work, ''Alison Wilding: Immersion – Sculpture from Ten Years'', was held at

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. She was nominated for the

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in 1988 (and later in 1992) and received a Henry Moore Fellowship for the British School at Rome in 1988. In 1999 she was made a

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. Her only large-scale public artwork "Ambit" was installed in the River

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in 1999, taking the form of a necklace of stainless-steel tubes floating in the river, and lit up from underwater at night. It was subsequently exhibited in the

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. It was scrapped in 2014. Wilding won a

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award in 2008. In the same year she won the Charles Wollaston Award presented by the Royal Academy for the most distinguished work in their summer exhibition.

Exhibitions, awards, and collections

Solo exhibitions

* ''Young Friends of the Tate Gallery'',

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, London, UK (1970) *''Alison Wilding and Shelagh Wakely'' (with Shelagh Wakely), AIR Gallery, London, UK (1976) *''Sculpture'' (with

Shirazeh Houshiary Shirazeh Houshiary (born 15 January 1955) is an Iranian-born English sculptor, installation artist, and painter. She lives and works in London. Life and work Shirazeh Houshiary was born on 15 January 1955 in Shiraz, Iran. She left her native c ...

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, Cambridge, UK (1982) *Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, USA (1983) *

, London, UK (1985) *Salvatore Ala Gallery, Milan Italy (1985) *''New Sculpture,'' Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, USA (1986) *''New Sculpture'', Richard Salmon Ltd, London, UK (1986) *Galleri Lång, Malmö, Sweden (1986) *''Projects: Alison Wilding'',

, New York, USA (1987) *''Into the Brass'', Richard Salmon Ltd, London, UK (1987) *''Sculptures'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (1987) *''Sculpture'', Asher/ Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (1988) *''Alison Wilding: 1987–98'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (1988) *''Alison Wilding'', Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, USA (1989) *''Skulptura,'' Moderna Galerija, Ljubljan, Yugoslavia (1989) *''Sculptures'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (1990) *''Immersion'', Sculpture from Ten Years,

, Liverpool, UK (1991) *''Exposure'',

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Studio, Halifax, UK (1991) *''Alison Wilding'', Asher/ Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (1992) *''Bare'',

Newlyn Art Gallery Newlyn Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Newlyn, Cornwall, UK. Opened in 1895, designed by James Hicks of Redruth and financed by John Passmore Edwards the gallery was conceived as a home and exhibition venue for the New ...

, Penzance and

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, Birmingham, UK (1993) *''Recent Sculptures'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (1993) *''Air and Angels'' (with Anthony Gormley), ITN Building, London, UK (1994) *''Ambit'',

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, Pittsburgh PA, USA (1994) *''New Sculptures and Etchings'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (1995) *''Echo'', Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK (1995) *''Harbour'', Alison Wilding's Studio, Tannery Arts, London, UK (1995) *''Echo'', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Karsten Schubert, London (1996) *''Sculptures'', Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle de Calais, Calais, France (1996) *''A Project'', Robert Miller Gallery, New York (1997) * ''Territories'', The Edmonton Art Gallery, York University, York, Canada (1997) * ''Intensities'', Abbot Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Kendal, UK (1997) * ''Alison Wilding'', New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Salisbury, UK (1997) * ''Ambit'', City Library, Art Centre, Sunderland, UK (1997) * ''Artanspennine '98'', Chapel of St John the Evangelist,

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, Skipton, Yorkshire, UK (1998) * Northern Art Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (1998) * ''Ambit'', Panns Bank Public Art Project, Civic Centre, Sunderland, UK (1998) * New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK (2000) * ''Contract,'' Henry Moore Foundation Studio, Dean Clough, Halifax, UK (2000) * ''Template Drawings'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (2002) * ''Alison Wilding: Migrant'', Peter Pears Gallery and Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, UK (2003) * ''Alison Wilding: New Drawings'', The Drawing Gallery, London, UK (2005) * ''Alison Wilding: Sculpture'', Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York (2005) * ''Vanish and Detail'', Fred, London, UK (2005) * North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex, UK (2006) *

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, London (2006) * ''Acanthus asymmetrically'', Offer Waterman, Mayfair, London, UK (2008) * ''Tracking'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (2008) * ''Chamber Works'', Benveniste Contemporary, Madrid, Spain (2010) * ''All Cats are Grey...'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (2010) * ''How the Land Lies'', New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK (2011) * ''Alison Wilding: Art School Drawings from the 1960s and 1970s'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (2011) * ''Alison Wilding: Drawing, 'Drone 1-10, Karsten Schubert, London, UK (2012) * ''Deep Water'', The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2013) * ''Alison Wilding'',

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, Milbank, London (2013) * ''Arena Redux'', Art House Foundation, London, UK (2016) * ''Acanthus asymmetrically'', Offer Waterman, Mayfair, London (2017) * ''Alison Wilding'', The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK (2018) * ''Right Here and Out There'', De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK (2018) * ''Arena'', Leeds Art Gallery, UK (2018) * ''Alison Wilding: On the Edge'', Jesus College, Cambridge, UK (2019) * ''Doors Closing, Doors Opening'', Betty Cunningham Gallery, Lower East Side, New York (2020) * ''Mesmer, Again'',

, London, UK (2020)

Group exhibitions

* Clare Court, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK (1973) *Space Studios, London, UK (1975) *''Six Sculptors'',

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, London, UK (1978) *''New Sculpture: A Selection'',

, Birmingham, UK (1979) *''55 Wapping Artists'', Wapping, London, UK (1979) *''Eight Artists: Women: 1980'', Acme Gallery, London, UK (1980) *''Whitechapel Open'',

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, London, UK (1980) *''Wapping Artists 1980'', Open Studio Exhibition, Wapping, London, UK (1980) *''GLAA Awards 1981'', Woodland Art Gallery, London, UK (1981) *''Wapping Artists 1981'', Wapping, London, UK (1981) *''Le Sculpture/La Sculpture'', The Drawing Schools Gallery,

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, Windsor, UK (1982) *''Wapping Artists Open Studio Exhibition'', Wapping, London, UK (1982) *''Collazione Inglese'', Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice, Italy (1982) *''Sculpture in the Garden'',

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, London, UK (1982) *''XVII Paris Biennale'', Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (1982) *''Sarah Broadpiece, Richard Wentworth, Alison Wilding'', St Paul's Gallery, Leeds (1982) *''Figures and Objects'',

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, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK (1983) *''Whitechapel Open'',

, London, UK (1983) *''Tolly Cobold/ Eastern Arts 4th National Exhibition'',

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, Cambridge;

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, Ipswich; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh; and

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, Leeds, UK (1983) *''The Sculpture Show'',

and The Southbank Centre, London, UK (1983) *''Transformations: New Sculpture from Britain'', 17th Biennale de Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Arte Moderna, Mexico City, Mexico; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (1983) *''Collazione Inglese'', Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice, Italy (1984) *''The British Art Show'',

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, touring to City of

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; Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery; Sheffield,

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, UK (1984) *''Summer Exhibition'', Salvatore Ala, New York, USA (1986) *''Jeffrey Dennis, Alan Green, Alison Wilding'', Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK (1986) *''Between Object and Image'',

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, Madrid; Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Barcelona; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain (1986) *''Sculpture: Nine Artists from Britain'',

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, Humlebaek, Denmark (1986) *''Prospect '86: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Art,'' Frankfurter Kunstvereins, Steinernen Haus am Romerberg, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (1986) *''Third Generation Women'', Canterbury Fringe Festival, Canterbury, UK (1986) *''Domenico Bianchi, Antony Gormley, Roberto Pace, Alison Wilding'', Salvatore Ala Gallery, Milan, Italy (1986) *''Starlit Waters: British Sculpture, 1968–88'',

, Liverpool, UK (1988) *''British Now: Sculpture et Autres Dessins'', Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (1988) *''Brittanica: 30 Ans de Sculpture, Musée des Beaux-Artes André Malraux'', Le Havre; L'Ecole D'Architecture de Normandie, Darnétal; Musée D'Évrex, Ancien Éveche, Évrex, France (1988) *''Cinquièmes Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire'', Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud, France (1988) *''British Art: The Literate Link'', Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (1988) *''Changing Group Exhibition: Gunther Forg, Thomas Grunfeld, Bob Law, Thomas Locher, Ed Ruscha, Tony Tasset, Alison Wilding'',

, London, UK (1988) *''Seriös'', Gallerie Wanda Reiff, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1988) *''Vanitas'', Norwich School of Art Gallery, Norwich, UK (1988) *''Edinburgh International: Reason and Emotion in Contemporary Art'',

Royal Scottish Academy The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country’s national academy of art. It promotes contemporary Scottish art. The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the ...

, Edinburgh, UK (1988) *''Lead'', Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, USA (1988) *''Viewpoint: British Art of the 80s'', Musée Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (1988) *''Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s'',

, Oxford, UK, and toured by the British Council to Muscarnok, Budapest, Hungary; Narodni Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (1988) *''Art Brittiskt 1980: Tal'', Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden and Sarah Hildén Museum, Tampere, Finland (1988) *''Beelden en Banieren'', Fort Asperen, Acquoy, The Netherlands (1988) *''Atlantic Sculpture'', Art Centre, College of Design, Pasadena, CA, USA (1988) *''Vessel'',

, London, UK (1988) *''Twentieth Century British Sculpture'', New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Salisbury, UK (1988) *''D. De Cordova, L. Ford, P. Randall-Page, S. Johnson, K. MacCarthy, H. Stylianides, M. Pennie, V. Woropay, A. Wilding'',

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, Manresa Road Gallery, London, UK (1988) *''Casting an Eye: Curated by Richard Deacon and Alison Wilding'', Cornerhouse Manchester, Manchester UK (1988) *''Second Istanbul Biennale'', Istanbul, Turkey (1989) *''All That Matters: Richard Deacon, Tom Dean, Remo Salvadori, Alison Wilding'',

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, Ontario;

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, Saskatoon; Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal, Canada (1989) *''Britse Sculptuur: British Sculpture 1960–1988'', Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium (1989) *''Sculpture Anglaise 1960–88'', Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées, Cedex, France *''Now for the Future: Purchases for the Arts Council Collection since 1984'',

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, London UK (1990) *''Rebecca Horn, Willi Kopf, Richard Long, Alison Wilding'', Centre d' art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France (1990) *''Sculptors' Drawings'', Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM, USA (1991) *''The Lick of the Eye'', Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (1991) *''Pulsió (Louise Bourgeois, Pepe Espaliu, Alison Wilding)'', Sala d’Exposicions de la Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain (1991) *''Traces of the Figure'', City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent and Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK (1992) *''Whitechapel Open 1992'',

, London, UK (1992) *''Summer Group Show'',

, London, UK (1992) *New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Salisbury, UK (1992) *''Fifth Anniversary Exhibition'',

, London, UK (1992) *''The Tuner Prize 1992: Grenville Davey, David Tremlett, Damien Hirst, Alison Wilding'',

, London, UK (1992) *''Les Collections du Fonds Régional d’Art,'' Contemporain des Pays de la Loire au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France (1992) *''Recent British Sculpture'',

Touring Exhibition, UK (1993) *''Cámaras de Fricción: Pedro Cabrita Reis, Sophie Calle, Alison Wilding, Juan Usle'', Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain (1993) *''Hindsight: Selected Works Made for the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio 1989–93'', The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio, Halifax, UK (1993) *''Sculpture of the 1980s'': ''Edward Allington, Tony Cragg, Julian Opie, Alison Wilding,'' Connaught Brown, London, UK (1993) *''Informationsdienst'', Art Acker, Berlin, Germany (1993) *''Made Strange: New British Sculpture'',

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, Budapest, Hungary (1993) *''Five Works: Keith Coventry, Michael Landy, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread and Alison Wilding'',

, London, UK (1993) *''Then and Now: Twenty-Three Years at the Serpentine Gallery'',

, London, UK (1993) *''Inadvertently: Stuart Arends, Judy Fiskin, Llyn Foulkes, Steve Gianakos, Maxwell Hendler, Barbara Kruger, Allan McCollum, Gwynn Murrill, Ellen Phelan, Alison Wilding,'' Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US (1993) *''In Site: New British Sculpture'', The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (1993) *''Group Show: Keith Coventry, Peter Davis, Anya Gallaccio, Zebedee Jones, Bridget Riley and Alison Wilding'',

, London, UK (1994) *''Natural Settings'',

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, London, UK (1995) *''Cabinet Art'', Jason and Rhodes Gallery, London, UK (1995) *''British Art of the 1980s & 1990s: Works from the Weltkunst Collection'', The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (1995) *''In Passing'', The Tannery, London, UK (1995) *''Home and Away: Internationalism and British Art 1900–90'',

, Liverpool, UK (1995) *''Objects in Advance of the Concept'', Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada (1995) *''Summer Group Show'',

, London, UK (1995) *''British Abstract Art, Part 2: Sculpture'', Flowers East Gallery, London, UK (1995) *''Decadence'', Trondheim Art Union, Trondheim, Norway (1995) *''Here and Now'',

, London, UK (1995) *''British Contemporary Sculpture: From Henry Moore to the 1990s'', Auditoria de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela and Fundacio de Serralves, Porto, Spain (1995) *New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Salisbury, UK (1995) *''Plastic'', Richard Salmon Gallery, London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; and The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (1996) *''A Sculptor's Choice: Works Selected by Ann Christopher'',

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, London, UK (1996) *''Orte des Möglichen: Weibliche Positionen in der Bildenden Kunst'', Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany and Hypobank International S.A., Luxembourg (1996) *''British Abstract Art Part 3: Works on Paper'', Flowers East, London, UK (1996) *''From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptor's Drawings'', Frith Street Gallery and

, London, UK (1996) *''Twelfth Cleveland International Drawing Biennale'',

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, Middlesbrough, UK (1996) *''Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 1990s'',

, London, UK (1997) *''Building Site'', The Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK (1997) *''Marking Presence'', ArtSway, Lymington, Hampshire, UK (1997) *''Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud'',

, Cambridge and

, London, UK (1998) *''Forjar el Espacio: La Escultura Forjada del Siglo XX'', Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain (1998) *''International Drawing Workshops'', RCA Drawing Studio, London, UK (1998) *''Interactive: An Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture'', Amerada Hess Gallery, London, UK (1998) *''Drawing Itself'', The London Institute Gallery, London, UK (1998) *''The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works'',

Orlando Museum of Art Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures re ...

, Orlando, Florida, USA (1998) *''At Home with Art'', a national touring exhibition from the

, London, UK (1999) *''Furniture'',

, Southampton and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, in association with Richard Salmon Gallery, London, UK (1999) *''Triennial Sculpture Exhibition'',

Royal West of England Academy The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade 2* listed building, it hosts five galleries and an exhibition progra ...

, Bristol, UK (1999) *Forger L’espace: La Sculpture Forgée au XX Siècle, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France (1999) *''Shine'',

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, Salford, UK *''Sublime: The Darkness and the Light: Works from the Arts Council Collection'',

, Southampton, UK (1999) *''Den Haag Sculptuur 1999'',

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, The Netherlands (1999) *''Bankside Browser: An Archive'', St. Christopher's House, London, UK (1999) *''Sculpture and the Divine'',

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, Winchester, UK (2000) *''Sculpture, an Abbey and a Cathedral'',

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, and

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, Gloucester, UK (2000) *''Robert Hopper Memorial Exhibition'', Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK (2000) *''...from little acorns... Early Works by Academicians'', Royal Academy of the Arts, London, UK (2002) *''Shine'', The Lowry Centre, Salford Quays, UK (2002) *''Contemporary Drawing Exhibition: Finalists of Pizza Express Prospects 2002'', Essor Gallery Project Space, London, UK (2002) *''Pure Containment: Sculptures from the Arts Council Collection'', Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, UK (2002) *''Thy Neighbour's Ox'',

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, London, UK (2003) *''Contemporary Collecting: New Art for Manchester'',

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, Manchester, UK (2003) *''Drawing One Hundred'', Drawing Room, London, UK (2003) *''Nightwood'', Rhodes & Mann Gallery, London, UK (2003) *''Autres Dentelles'', Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle de Calais, Calais, France (2003) *''Sculpture in the Close'', Jesus College, Cambridge, UK (2003) *''Glad That Things Don't Talk'',

Irish Museum of Modern Art The Irish Museum of Modern Art ( ga, Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann) also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of Modern art, modern and contemporary art. Located in Kilmainham, Dublin, t ...

, Dublin, Ireland (2003) *''Sterling Stuff: Sculptures in Silver'', Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland (2003) *''Vial Wit'', Sir Hugh Casson Room, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, UK (2004) *''Daddy Pop: The Search for Art Parents'', Anne Faggionato Gallery, London, UK (2004) *''25 Artists 25 Drawings'', The Drawing Galery, Walford, UK (2004) *''40 Artists 40 Drawings'', The Drawing Gallery, Walford, UK (2005) *''Raised Awareness'',

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, London, UK (2005) *''Drawing Two Hundred'', Drawing Room, London, UK (2005) *''The Print Show'',

, Cambridge, UK (2005) *''Effervescence: La Sculpture ‘Anglaise’ dans les Collections Publiques Française de 1969 à 1989'', Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, Angers, France (2005) *''Responding to Rome: British Artists in Rome 1995–2005'',

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, London, UK *''How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art in the Arts Council Collection'',

, London, UK (2006) *''Drawing Inspiration'', Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, UK (2006) *''Paris: 16 Artists/ 32 Drawings'', The Drawing Gallery, Watford, UK (2006) *''Sculpture at McLaren'', The McLaren Technology Centre, London, UK (2007) *''Rummage: Sculptors' Drawings'', The Winchester Gallery,

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, UK (2007) *''Seventeen at the Wharf Road Project'', Seventeen, London (2008) * ''Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA Collection'',

, Dublin, CORE- Berthot, Bess, Fratteggiani Bianchi, Frecon, Lees, Therrien, Wilding, Wilmarth, Betty Cunningham Gallery, Chelsea, New York (2009) *''Multiple Store'', Westbrook Gallery, London, UK (2009) *''The Black Page'', Shandy Hall Gallery, Coxwold, UK (2009) *''Drawing Biennial 2009'', Drawing Room, London, UK (2009) *''North House Gallery 10th Anniversary Show Part 1 and Part 2: Mainly Sky'', North House Gallery, Manningtree, UK (2009) *''Super Farmer's Market'', Handel Street Projects, London, UK (2010) *''Summer Exhibition 2010'',

, London, UK (2010) *''The Thought of Stuff'', RBS Galleries, London, UK (2010) *''From Floor to Sky'', Ambika P3 Gallery,

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, London, UK (2010) *''Drawing Biennial 2011'', Drawing Room, London, UK (2011) *''Drawing: Sculpture'', Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (2012) *''Unknown Fields: Recent British Drawings'', Trinity Contemporary, London, UK (2012) * ''Sculptors' Drawings & Works on Paper'', Pangolin London, UK (2012) *''Here We Go: A Changing Group Show'',

, London, UK (2013) *''Drawings'',

, London, UK (2013) *''With An Apple I Will Astonish'', Large Glass, London, UK (2013) * ''Here, There, and Somewhere in Between: The Royal Academy at Hatfield House'',

, Hatfield UK (2013) * ''Drawing Biennial 2013'', Drawing Room London, UK (2013) *''Multiple Market'', Handel Street Projects, London, UK (2014) *''Shelagh Wakely: A View from a Window'',

, London, UK (2014) *''Summer Exhibition 2014'',

, London, UK (2014) * ''Abstract Drawing'', Drawing Room London, UK (2014) * ''The Multiple Store'', Paul Stolper, London, UK (2015) * ''MAKING IT: Sculpture in Britain: 1977–1986'', Mead Gallery,

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, Coventry,

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, Wakefield, UK (2015) * ''The Christmas Show 2015'', Caroline Wiseman Modern Art, Aldeburgh, UK (2015) *''Drawing Biennial 2015'', Drawing Room, London, UK (2015) *''Sculpture as Object'', Duveens BP Collection Display,

, London, UK (2016) * ''Extra Terrestrial: Tess Jaray and Alison Wilding'', East Gallery at NUA, Norwich, UK (2016) * ''Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977–1986'', City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK (2016) * ''Art of the Postcard'', Handel Street Projects, Islington, London, UK (2017) *249th Summer Exhibition,

, London, UK (2017) *250th Summer Exhibition,

, London, UK (2018) * ''Tony Carter: By Bread Only'' ''(1978-9)'', Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (2018) * ''The Sculpture Collections'', Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (2018) * ''Women of the Royal Academy RA250'', Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, UK (2018) * ''Carl Plackman and His Circle'', Pangolin London, Islington, London, UK (2019) * ''Drawing Biennial 2019'', Drawing Room, London, UK (2019) * ''What Isn't Here Can't Hurt You'',

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, South Kensington, London, UK (2019) * ''From the Kitchen Table: Draw Gallery Projects1984-90'', CGP London, UK (2019) *''Dialectical Materialism: Aspects of British Sculpture since the 1960s'', Karsten Schubert, London, UK (2019) * ''Can You Hear My Silent Scream?'', Betty Cunningham Gallery, Lower East Side, New York (2020) * ''The Other Side of The Coin'', New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK (2020) * ''Women's Lockdown Art'', Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (2020) *''We are Here'', Heong Gallery, Cambridge, UK (2020)

Nominations, awards, selection committees, and commissions

* Public drinking fountain, Rathbone Square, commissioned by Great Portland Estate * National Memorial to British Victims of Terrorism Overseas, commissioned by Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, National Memorial Aboretum, Staffordshire, 2018 * Instillation of ''Shimmy'', commissioned by The Crown Estate and Exemplar, 10 New Burlington Street, London, 2014 * Selector for the

Jerwood Drawing Prize The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is the United Kingdom's leading award in contemporary drawing. Initially awarded in 1991 as the Malvern Open Drawing Prize, it became the Cheltenham Open Drawing Competition in 1994, and then the Jerwood Drawing ...

, 2014 * Baptismal Font, Drinking Fountain and Garden Fountain commissioned by the United Reform Church for Lumen, Regent's Square, London, UK, 2009 * Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, 2008 * Joanna Drew Travel Award, 2007 * Selector for

Bloomberg New Contemporaries New Contemporaries is an organisation in the UK that works to support emerging artists at the beginning of their careers by introducing them to the visual arts sector and to the public through a variety of platforms, including an annual exhibition ...

, 2006 * Instillation of ''Migrant'', commissioned by

Snape Maltings Snape Maltings is an arts complex on the banks of the River Alde at Snape, Suffolk, England. It is best known for its concert hall, which is one of the main sites of the annual Aldeburgh Festival. The original purpose of the Maltings was the ...

, Adelborough, UK, 2003 * Elected to

, 2001 * Instillation of ''Ambit'' on the

River Wear The River Wear (, ) in North East England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland. At long, it is one of the region's longest rivers, wends in a steep valley through ...

; commissioned by the City of Sunderland, UK, 1999 * Nominated for

, 1992 * Henry Moore Fellowship,

The British School at Rome The British School at Rome (BSR) is an interdisciplinary research centre supporting the arts, humanities and architecture. History The British School at Rome (BSR) was established in 1901 and granted a UK Royal Charter in 1912. Its mission is " ...

, 1989 * Nominated for

, 1988 * GLAA Award, 1981

Collections

British Council The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh la ...

* FRAC Pay de la Loire, France * Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia * Scottish National Gallery, UK * Musée de Beaux Arts, Calais, France *

Graves Art Gallery Graves Art Gallery is an art gallery in Sheffield, England. The gallery is located above the Central Library in Sheffield city centre. It houses permanent displays from the city’s historic and contemporary collection of British and European a ...

, Sheffield, UK * Leeds Art Gallery, UK * Henry Moore Institute, UK * Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, UK *

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docume ...

CASS Sculpture Foundation The Cass Sculpture Foundation was a charitable commissioning body based in Goodwood, Sussex, England. The Foundation's 26-acre grounds were home to an ever-changing display of 80 monumental sculptures, all of which were available for sale with t ...

, Goodwood, UK * Jesus College, Cambridge, UK *

Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, known as Museums Sheffield is a charity created in 1998 to run Sheffield City Council Sheffield City Council is the city council for the metropolitan borough of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. ...

, Sheffield, UK *

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and ...

, London, UK

Selected publications

* ''Alison Wilding''

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the first critical survey of Wilding's work, published by Lund Humphries and edited by Jo Applin and Briony Fer. * ''Alison Wilding: Art School Drawings from the 1960s and 70s''

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published by

Ridinghouse Ridinghouse is a British book publisher specialising in art. Ridinghouse’s publications are distributed by Cornerhouse in the UK and Europe, and by RAM Publications + Distribution, Inc. in North America. Company history Ridinghouse was foun ...

to coincide with her exhibition of the same title at

, London (9 June – 29 July 2011). Karsten Schubert is the artist's main agent. * ''Alison Wilding: Tracking''

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featuring essays by Judy Collins, Sam Porritt and Rod Mengham. Published by Ridinghouse.

References

External links

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"Floating art evokes city's past" – Peter Hetherington in the Guardian
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