Art360 Foundation Press Release 11.08.2020

Alison Wilding A film by David Bickerstaff, supported by Art360 Foundation Watch at art360foundation.org.uk

Alison Wilding, In a Dark Wood, 2012. Reclaimed laminated iroko and acrylic. Exhibited as part of Dialectical Materialism: Aspects of British since the 1960s’ at Park Village East (2019), Photo: Peter White.

About the Film I started my notebooks in the late ‘60s. In a haphazard sort of way the trajectory of every Art360 Foundation has worked with Alison piece of work, in some shape or form, is in there. Wilding to develop her archive and legacy since 2016. The Henry Moore Institute asked me whether I would leave my notebooks for their archive, and I As part of the Art360 Programme we think I’ve said ‘no, I would like them to be burnt’. produce documentary films with artists and They’re almost too intimate - they say too much artists’ estates exploring their ideas around about other things, but, if I was anyone else, I legacy, cultural heritage and approaches to would really like to get my hands on them. creating an archive. If I left it in my will that I want all my notebooks to Thank you to David Bickerstaff for be burnt, you can bet your life that they wouldn’t. producing Alison Wilding’s Art360 film. Alison Wilding You can read more about David’s work at: www.atomictv.com @atomictv_images

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About the Artist

Alison Wilding makes abstract sculpture. She is Wilding was nominated for the in known for the wide range of both materials and 1988 and 1992, and elected to the Royal processes she employs, as well as her capacity Academy in 1999. Awards include a Henry to work at the extremes of scale: from the hand- Moore Fellowship at the British School at held object to all but monumental sculpture. Rome (1998), Joanna Drew Travel Bursary (2007), Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2008), Born in Blackburn Lancs in 1948, Wilding and Bryan Robertson Award (2012). graduated from the RCA in 1973. She came to prominence in the 1980s as one of a group of A monograph was published in 2018 to sculptors including Richard Deacon and Antony coincide with Right Here and Out There, an Gormley. Wilding’s first major solo exhibition was exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. at the Serpentine Gallery in 1985. Wilding lives and works in , and has Since then she has shown extensively throughout been represented by Gallery the UK and abroad, and has been acquired into since 1987. She is currently Eranda Professor major public collections in the UK. Public of Drawing at the RA Schools and was made commissioned works include Migrant, 2004, for OBE in 2019. Snape Maltings and Shimmy, 2014, at 10 Burlington Street, London.

About Art360 Foundation

Art360 Foundation is an independent charity supporting artists and estates with archiving and legacy planning. Through the Art360 Programme, we empower artists to shape the narratives surrounding their practice and to preserve a life’s work, for the benefit of present and future generations.

We have supported 45 artists and estates working in a range of disciplines through our tailored bursary programmes in England and Scotland, delivered by freelance specialists across the UK. We work in partnership with museums, galleries and arts organisations to deliver a dynamic public programme, which aims to create both visibility for artists’ archives and new opportunities for knowledge exchange across the visual arts.

Alison Wilding, Shimmy, 2014. Mirrored stainless steel and acrylic. Photo: Rob Parrish.

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• Thank you to all those that applied for the role of Picture Researcher / Archivist to work on a new ACE-funded project, Monologue Hub, with UNDEREXPOSED ARTS, run by Art360 artist, Franklyn Rodgers and actor, Fraser James. The Monologue Hub, run by UA, invites artists of colour to perform excerpts from classical Still from ‘Alison Wilding’, A Film by David Bickerstaff literature, recorded and shared online. © David Bickerstaff & Art360 Foundation, 2020.

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