Title: ‘C’ Drawing

Year: 2024

Media: Acrylic inks, collage and pencil on Ingres Paper

Size: 30 x 42 cm

About the work: The ‘C’ is caught in a pincer movement between two lines of draught excluders- or eyelashes. The amorphous yellow shape- and yellow is a determining colour in all three drawings- floats beneath.

Bio: (b.1948 Blackburn, UK) is one of the most important British sculptors of the post-war period. Her abstract works cross both scale and materials, often in single work, pushing together unexpected and emotive relationships. Wilding constantly experiments with the boundaries of sculpture, side-stepping any traditional value orders, using the found and the made, the expensive and cheap with equal importance.

Wilding studied at Nottingham College of Art in 1966, at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design from 1967 to 1970, and then the Royal College of Art from 1970 to 1973 (where she was the only woman in her year group). Rising to prominence in the 1980s as part of the so-called New British Sculpture, Wilding has since been twice nominated for the Turner Prize (1988 and 1992) and was made a Royal Academician in 1999. She has exhibited internationally with solo shows at MoMA, New York (1987), the Serpentine Gallery, London (1985) and a retrospective at Tate Liverpool (1991). She has recently had solo exhibitions at Alison Jacques, London (2024); Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge (2024); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2018), and exhibition of her drawings donated by the late Karsten Schubert is on view at The Whitworth, Manchester until 2025. Wilding’s work is also on permanent display in the Tate Britain, other museum collections include the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Arts Council Collection, London; British Museum, London; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.