Veronica Wilton’s sculptures have a sharply-focused, dreamlike quality.
They appear to be representational, but this is deceptive and there’s a rethinking of representation at play. Her images are lifelike, but colour is fluid, and of essence.
Her process, mould-making and casting, involves deconstruction and reconstruction, suggesting the theme of transformation. Subjects drawn from the natural or material world reveal an interest in the transhistorical, or the significance of images across time.
“When I make a mould, I make an empty space, where something metaphysical can begin. This lets me bring abstract experiences into a more concrete reality.”
She’s inspired by the sculptors, Rebecca Horn (1944-2024) and Katharina Fritsch (b. 1956). Born in London in 1965, she grew-up in the US, training at Chelsea, then Byam Shaw, graduating in 1989. Her work was selected for ‘New Contemporaries’ that year, with Damien Hirst.
In the 1990’s she organised exhibitions in unconventional settings including ’Siteworks’, a programme of interventions in public places, publishing ‘Siteworks’ by Isobel Bowditch in 1997. Her projects have been backed by Arts Council, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and Royal Society for the Arts, and works are held in private collections in the UK, Italy and USA.
Recent solo shows include ‘Helios Rising’, Close, Somerset, (2022), and ‘The Time is Now’, Meakin + Parsons, Oxford, (2021). Veronica lives and works in Somerset.
Veronica Wilton’s sculptures have a sharply-focused, dreamlike quality.
They appear to be representational, but this is deceptive and there’s a rethinking of representation at play. Her images are lifelike, but colour is fluid, and of essence.
Her process, mould-making and casting, involves deconstruction and reconstruction, suggesting the theme of transformation. Subjects drawn from the natural or material world reveal an interest in the transhistorical, or the significance of images across time.
“When I make a mould, I make an empty space, where something metaphysical can begin. This lets me bring abstract experiences into a more concrete reality.”
She’s inspired by the sculptors, Rebecca Horn (1944-2024) and Katharina Fritsch (b. 1956). Born in London in 1965, she grew-up in the US, training at Chelsea, then Byam Shaw, graduating in 1989. Her work was selected for ‘New Contemporaries’ that year, with Damien Hirst.
In the 1990’s she organised exhibitions in unconventional settings including ’Siteworks’, a programme of interventions in public places, publishing ‘Siteworks’ by Isobel Bowditch in 1997. Her projects have been backed by Arts Council, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and Royal Society for the Arts, and works are held in private collections in the UK, Italy and USA.
Recent solo shows include ‘Helios Rising’, Close, Somerset, (2022), and ‘The Time is Now’, Meakin + Parsons, Oxford, (2021). Veronica lives and works in Somerset.