Alison Wilding: On Paper
Ridinghouse
1 July 2024
Best-known for her ambitious sculptural works, Alison Wilding: On Paper explores how the artist’s compelling drawing and extensive use of collage has been integral to her developments for five decades.
Whilst sharing affiliations with Wilding’s three-dimensional work, the artist’s drawings – often in series – expand upon her investigation of surface by using a distinctive formal language. The works are characterised by a strong interplay between representation and metaphor, incorporating a range of materials – from ink to silicone fluid – to visualise and test ideas of mass and depth.
Alongside essays by Anna Lovatt and Penelope Curtis, and an in-conversation with the artist by Rosie Cooper, this full-colour survey of over 300 illustrations offers the opportunity to track subtle correspondences in forms and concepts between historic and recent series of works.