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Curator Tour: Alison Wilding RA - By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf

Wed 3 July 2024

The Heong Gallery

About the exhibition

Alison Wilding RA is best known for her multimedia sculptures, admired internationally for their unexpected interplay between material, form, and space. What is less well known is her drawing practice, which has developed parallel to her sculpture practice across a career spanning over four decades. By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf brings together series of drawings from the last 30 years alongside a new monumental drawing made for the exhibition. The exhibition is the most extensive display of Wilding’s drawings in a public gallery to date. It is accompanied by a display of small-scale sculpture, selected by the artist.


About Alison Wilding RA

Born in 1948 in Blackburn, Alison Wilding went to school in Cambridge before heading to art school in 1967. Nominated twice for the Turner Prize (1988 and 1992), Wilding was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2001.

Wilding was represented by Karsten Schubert from 1987 to 2023, and drawings from Karsten Schubert’s bequest to the Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester) are on show until January 2025. Alison Wilding is represented by Alison Jacques.


About the Curator

Dr Prerona Prasad has curated exhibitions for The Heong Gallery since 2017. Other exhibitions curated by her include Issam Kourbaj: You are not you and home is not home (2024), Soheila Sokhanvari: We Could Be Heroes... (2023), Gavin Turk: In Search of Ariadne (2022), Lucy Van Pelt: Director of Everything (2021), Of The Earth: Contemporary Ceramics and Glass from The Fitzwilliam Museum (2021), We Are Here: Women in Art at Cambridge Colleges (2020), Kip Gresham: The Art of Collaboration (2019), Halfboy: Stuart Pearson Wright (2018), Larger than Life: Dame Elisabeth Frink (2017), and The Best of All Possible Worlds: Quentin Blake and the Folio Society (2017).

Cost: Free

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Wed 3 July 2024 6:00PM - 6:45PM

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Address: The Heong Gallery
Downing College
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 1DQ
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