Jane and Louise Wilson
Jane Wilson and Louise Wilson
Lives and careers
The collaboration begins
Louise studied for a BA at
Jane and Louise Wilson then studied together on the MA course at
Jane and Louise Wilson's work together includes multiscreen video installations and photo-pieces; their artworks often feature institutional spaces, for example an oil rig, the archives of the Stasi in East Berlin (the building had previously been used by the Nazis and Stalin's Russia), The Houses of Parliament, and the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee designed by Victor Pasmore.
Turner Prize 1999
The pair were nominated for the
2000s
In 2003, the Wilsons developed their work with greater complexity, involving not only multiple projections but also a variety of differently positioned surfaces as screens in the art work and exhibition A Free and Anonymous Monument (2003). It includes films of a microchip factory, playing children, a lake, a rusting oil rig and the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee New Town, near Gateshead.[3] In 2009 they created 'Unfolding the Aryan Papers', based on the extensive research they conducted at the Stanley Kubrick Archive, University of the Arts, London. A commission by Animate Projects and the British Film Institute through the contemporary arts programme of the BFI Gallery, where the resulting installation was presented[4][5]
In 2013-14, Jane and Louise Wilson had a solo exhibition at
In 2018 Jane and Louise Wilson were elected to be
References
- ^ a b Adams, Tim. (10 October 1999). Jane and Louise Wilson, The Guardian. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
- ^ Preece, R.J. (2000). Jane and Louise Wilson at Serpentine Gallery, London. Sculpture / artdesigncafe. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
- ^ Searle, Adrian. (16 September 2003). You are free, The Guardian. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
- ^ Fabrizi,Elisabetta, 'The BFI Gallery Book, BFI, London 2011, pp.139-157
- ^ Fabrizi, Elisabetta, 'Is This Cinema?', in 'Artists' Moving image in Britain since 1989, edited by Balsom, Erika, Perks,Sarah, Reynolds, Lucy, Paul Mellon Foundation/Yale University Press, London 2019
- ^ Searle, Adrian. (22 October 2012). Post-atrocity exhibition: Jane and Louise Wilson's disturbing films. The Guardian. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
- ^ "'Blind Landings (H-bomb Test Site, Orford Ness) #1', Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
- ^ "Jane and Louise Wilson – Artist". London: Royal Academy of Arts.