Richard Wilson (sculptor)

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Richard Wilson
Reading University
Known forSculpture, installation art

Richard Wilson

RA
(born 24 May 1953) is an English sculptor, installation artist and musician.

Biography

Born in

Architectural Association in 1998 and nominated for the Turner Prize in both 1988 (when Tony Cragg won) and 1989 (when Richard Long
won).

Wilson's first solo show was 11 Pieces, at the Coracle Press Gallery in London in 1976. Since then he has had at least 50 solo exhibitions around the world.

He formed the Bow Gamelan Ensemble in 1983 with Anne Bean and Paul Burwell.

Wilson's work is characterised by architectural concerns with volume, illusionary spaces and auditory perception. His most famous work 20:50, a room of specific proportions, part-filled with highly reflective used sump oil creating an illusion of the room turned upside down was first exhibited at

Newcastle-upon-Tyne
.

In the 1990s and 21st century, Wilson continued to work on a large scale to fulfil his ambitions to "tweak or undo or change the interiors of space... in that way unsettle or break peoples preconceptions of space, what they think space might be", including an installation near London's

Kingsway and Sardinia Street. Commissioned by the LSE and curated by the Contemporary Art Society, Square the Block is an outdoor sculpture that both mimics and subtly subverts the existing façade of the building. In 2012 the installation Hang On A Minute Lads, I've Got a Great Idea recreated the closing scene of the film The Italian Job on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
.

Wilson was commissioned to create Slipstream, to be installed in the rebuilt Terminal 2 building at Heathrow Airport during 2013.[2] For this work he received the 2014 Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture.[3]

In September 2013 Wilson, in collaboration with the artists Zatorski + Zatorski, created "1513: A Ships' Opera" a large-scale performance with historic ships on the River Thames, produced by The Cultureship.

He is Visiting Research Professor at the University of East London's School of Architecture and the Visual Arts.[4] In November 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university.[5]

References

  1. ^ installation (2004) The Oxford Dictionary of Art. Ed. Ian Chilvers. Oxford University Press
  2. ^ "Heathrow Launches "Slipstream" by Richard Wilson". Mediacentre.heathrowairport.com.
  3. ^ "Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture". Marsh Christian Trust. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Richard Wilson: Staff Profile". University of East London.
  5. ^ "East London the place to be", say ground-breaking artists. University of East London, 25 November 2010.

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