Richard Wilson RA

Over a career that has spanned over forty years of exhibiting, I have built an international reputation as one of the most inventive sculptors of my generation. These major works are often characterised by concerns with size and structural daring. I’ve always been concerned with the way you can alter someone’s perception, knock their view of the world off-kilter. And to do that I need to start with something we think we understand. This a lot of the time has been the familiar order of architecture.  To this end I have been fortunate in producing many major sited pieces around the world both temporary and permanent, a recent example being “Slipstream' at Terminal 2 ,Heathrow. Achieving these works has allowed me to work along side many professional practices including Engineers, Fabricators, Riggers, Hauliers, Curators, PR companies etc. 

I call what I do sculpture and myself a sculptor, a term I feel accurately describes my primary engagement with the world of materials, objects and space but is not prescriptive about the manifestations in the way a term like “site specific” might do. Of course not everything I produce is on a grand scale hence “Toffee” from 10 grams of wax.