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Jo Lawson-Tancred, artnet
October 2024
One of Britain’s foremost contemporary sculptors, Alison Wilding has spent the past five decades producing what she calls “abstract sculptures” using inventive techniques and all manner of materials, from PVC, rubber, and copper to foam, wax, and string. Though non-representational, her work is ultimately about the body and human desire. Wilding burst onto the London scene in the 1980s alongside peers like Richard Deacon and Anish Kapoor, their work lumped together under the generalist term of “new British sculpture,” which skewed mostly male in scope. While she’s been shortlisted for the Turner Prize twice and was made an OBE in 2019, Wilding has still remained somewhat under the radar.