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ALISON WILDING RA: By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf

Fri 14 June 2024 - Sun 22 September 2024

The Heong Gallery

'The thing I like about drawings is that they can float. You don’t think about gravity.'

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.

A catalogue of Wilding’s drawings, ON PAPER, will be published by Ridinghouse in Autumn 2024.

The exhibition is curated by Dr Prerona Prasad.


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.

Cost: Free

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Timing

In person

12:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday-Sunday every week from Friday 14 June until Sunday 22 September

All times

Fri 14 June 2024 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Sat 15 June 2024 12:00PM - 5:00PM
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Venue

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