Title: Forecourt Twister

Media: Pencil pen inkjet tippex on paper

Size: 42 x 29.7 cm

About the work: We tend to think of petrol stations as bleak, transitory spaces, with their sensory assault of fuel odours and fluorescent strip lighting. They’re unsightly but essential and eerily homogeneous. In the future, when electric cars rule the roads, petrol stations may not exist as we know them today But my sculptural proposal Forecourt Twister reconsiders these roadside fixtures, reminding us of their diversity as worldwide objects of architectural and cultural curiosity.

Bio: Richard Wilson, born 1953, is internationally celebrated for his interventions in architectural space, which draw heavily for their inspiration from the worlds of engineering and construction. 
Wilson has exhibited widely nationally and internationally for over thirty-five years and has made major museum exhibitions and public works across the world, in countries as diverse as Japan, China, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Tasmania, N Iraq and numerous countries throughout Europe. Wilson has represented Britain in the Sydney, Sao Paulo, Venice Aperto Biennials and the Yokohama and Aichi Triennals.
Wilson was nominated for the Turner Prize on two occasions and was awarded the prestigious DAAD residency in Berlin 1992/3.