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Biography:
Born: 1948, Blackburn, Lancashire
Lives and works in London

Education:

1967-68  Nottingham College of Art
1968-71  Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, Bromley, Kent
1971-73  Royal College of Art, London

Nominations, Fellowships and Public Sculpture Commissions:

1992  Nominated for Turner Prize
1998  Henry Moore Fellowship for The British School at Rome
1999 Sept   Installation of floating sculpture Ambit, River Wear, Sunderland
1999/2000  Commissioned by Simmons & Simmons to make a sculpture for their London headquarters
2003  Commissioned by Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh to make a sculpture for their grounds

One-Person Exhibitions:

1970  Young Friends of the Tate Gallery, Pear Place, London
1976  AIR Gallery, London
1982  Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge
1983  Salvator Ala Gallery, New York
1985  Salvator Ala Gallery, Milan
  Serpentine Gallery, London
1986  Salvator Ala Gallery, New York
1987  Galleri Lang, Malm', Sweden
  Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1987-88  Projects: Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988  Gallerie Wanda Reiff, Maastricht, Holland
  Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
1988-89  Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1989  Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1989  Moderna Galerija Ljubljan, Mala Galerija Yugoslavia
1990  Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1991 May - Aug  'Alison Wilding: Immersion - Sculpture from Ten Years', Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1991 June - Aug  'Alison Wilding: 'Exposure' - New works made at the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio' Dean Clough, Halifax
1992 Feb/March  'Recent Sculptures', Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 March/June  'Alison Wilding: Bare', Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1993 April/May  'Recent Sculptures', Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1993/4  'Alison Wilding: Exposure', Tate Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
1994 Jan/July  'Alison Wilding: Ambit', Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
1994 April/June  'Air and Angels' (with Anthony Gormley), I T N Building, London (organized by the Contemporary Art Society, London)
1995 Jan/Feb  'Alison Wilding: Sculptures and Etchings', Karsten Schubert, London
1995 Oct/Nov  'Alison Wilding: Echo', Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1996 March/April  'Alison Wilding: Echo', Karsten Schubert, London
1996 March  �Alison Wilding: Harbour�, Alison Wilding�s studio, London
1996 April/May   'Alison Wilding: Echo', Douglas Hyde Gallery, , Dublin
1996 June/Sep  'Alison Wilding: Sculptures', Musee des Beaux-Arts et Dentelles de Calais, Calais
1997 Feb/March  �Alison Wilding: Ambit�, Panns Bank Public Art Project, Civic Centre, Sunderland
1997 April  �Alison �Wilding�, Orangery Gallery, New Art Centre Sculpture Park at Roche Court, Wiltshire
1997 Oct/Dec  'Alison Wilding: Sculptures', Abbot Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Kendall
1997 Nov/Jan 1998  'Alison Wilding: Territories', The Edmonton Art Gallery , Edmonton AB (Canada)
1998 Feb/April  'Alison Wilding: Territories', Art Gallery of York University. North York (Canada)
1998 June/Aug   'Alison Wilding, Two Sculptures', arTranspennine'98: Chapel of St John the Evangelist, Skipton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire
1998 Nov/Dec  'Alison Wilding' Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1998 Nov/ 1999 Jan  'Grounded', Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2000 June/Aug  �Alison Wilding: New Sculptures�, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire
2000 Oct/ Jan 2001  �Contract�, The Henry Moore Foundation studio, Dean Clough, Halifax
2002 Feb/April  �Template Drawings�, Karsten Schubert, London
2003  �Alison Wilding�, Peter Pears Gallery and Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh

Group Exhibitions:

1973  Clare Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
1975  SPACE Open Studios, London
1977  Riverside Studios, London
1979  New Sculpture: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
  55 Wapping Artists: London
1980  Eight Woman Artists: Acme Gallery, London
  Whitechapel Open: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
  Wapping Artists Open Studios: London
1981  G.L.A.A. Awards 1981: Woodland Art Gallery, London
  Wapping Artists 1981: London
1982  Whitechapel Open: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
  Le Sculpture/La Sculpture: Eton College, Windsor
  Wapping Artists Open Studio Exhibition: London
  Collazione Inglese: Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice
  Scuplture in the Garden: Camden Arts Centre, London
  XVII Paris Biennale, Paris
  St Pauls Gallery, Leeds
1983  Figures and Objects: John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton
  Whitechapel Open: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
  Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts 4th National Exhibition (prize winner): Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, & tour
  The Sculpture Show: Arts Council of Great Britain; fifty sculptors at the Serpentine and South Bank Galleries, London
  Transformations: New Sculpture from Britain: XVII Biennale de Sao Paulo; Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janiero; Museo de Arte Moderna, Mexico; Fundacoa Calouste Gulbentian, Lisbon
1984  Collazione Inglese: Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice
  The British Art Show: Arts Council of Great Britain, touring Birmingham, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Southampton
1985  The British Show: Art Gallery of Western Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Queensland Art Gallery, Australia; National Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
  10 Years at AIR: AIR Gallery, London
  Nuove Trame dell'Arte: Castello Colona, Genazanno, Italy
  Anniottanta: Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Chiostri della Loggetta, Lombardesca, Ravenna section)
  Synonyms for Sculpture: Neue Galerie am Laudesmuseum, Joannuem, Graz, Austria
  The Irish Exhibition of Living Art: Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
1986  Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Between Object and Image: Ministerio de Cultera and The British Council, Palacio de Valasquez, Madrid; Fundacion de Pensiones Barcelona; Mus�o de Bellas Artes, Bilbao
  Sculpture: Nine Artists from Britain: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  Art and Alchemy: Venice Biennale XLII, Venice
  Prospect '86: Frankfurter Kunstvereins im Steinernen Haus und der Shirn am Romerberg, Frankfurt, Germany
  Jeffrey Dennis, Alan Green, Alison Wilding: Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
  Third Generation Women: Canterbury Fringe Festival, 2Canterbury
  Domenico Bianchi, Anthony Gormley, Roberto Pace, Alison Wilding: Gelleria Salvatore Ala, Milan
1987  Casting an Eye: Co-selected with Richard Deacon; Cornerhouse, Manchester
  Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980's: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, & toured by the British Council to Mucsarnok, Budapest; Narodni Galerie, Prague; Zecheta, Warsaw
  Art Brittiskt 1980 - Tal: Liljevalchs Kunsthall, Stockholm; Sarah Hild�n Museum, Tampere, Finland
  Beelden en Banieren: Fort Asperen, Acquoy, Netherlands
  Atlantic Sculpture: Art Centre, College of Design, Pasadena, CA
  Viewpoint-British Art of the 80's: Museum of Modern Art,Musees Royaux de Beaux Arts de Belgique, Brussels
  Edinburgh International: Reason and Emotion in Contemporary Art: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
  Lead: Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York
1988  British Art - The Literate Link: Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
  All That Matters: Alison Wilding, Tom Dean, Remo Salvadori, Richard Deacon: Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montr�al
  Roche Court Sculpture Garden, Salisbury
  Starlit Waters: British Sculpture, An International Art: Tate Gallery, Liverpool
  Brittanica: 30 Ans de Sculpture: Mus�e des Beaux Artes Andr� Malraux, Le Havre; L'Ecole D'Architecture de Normandie, Darn�tal; Mus�e D'�vrex, Ancien �veche, �vreux; Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
  Vanitas: Norwich School of Art Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk; Tri-annual exhibition curated by Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton
  British Now - Sculpture et Autres Dessins: Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
  Cinquiemes Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire: Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France
1989  Istanbul, 2nd Biennale, September-October: Istanbul, Turkey
1990  Now For The Future: Purchases for the Arts Council Collection since 1984: Hayward Gallery, London
  Rebecca Horn, Willi Kopf, Richard Long, Alison Wilding: Centre d'art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguehennec
1991 May - July  'Pulsio: Louise Bourgeois, Pepe Espaliu, Alison Wilding': Fundacio "La Caixa", Barcelona
1991 July-Sept  'The Lick of the Eye', curated by David Pagel: Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Feb/April  Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1992 May/Sept  New Art Centre Sculpture Garden at Roche Court 1992, East Winterslow, nr Salisbury, Wiltshire
1992 Aug  'Summer Group Show: Robert Barry, Keith Coventry, Angus Fairhurst, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Stephen Prina, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread and Alison Wilding', Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1992 Aug  Whitechapel Open '92, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1993 Feb  'Traces of the Figure', City Museum and Art Gallery Hanley, Soke on Trent; Cartwright Hall, Stoke-on-Trent
1992 Nov  '1992 Turner Prize Exhibition: Grenville Davey, Damien Hirst, David Tremlett and Alison Wilding', Tate Gallery London
1993 Jan/March  'In Site - New British Sculpture', The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
1993 Apr/June  'Inad'vertently: Stuart Arends, Judy Fiskin, Llyn Foulkes, Steve Gianakos, Maxwell Hendler, Barbara Kruger, Allan McCollum, Gwynn Murrill, Ellen Phelan, Alison Wilding', Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1993 May  'Group Show: Keith Coventry, Michael Landy, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread and Alison Wilding', Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1993 June/July  'Edward Allington, Tony Cragg, Julian Opie and Alison Wilding', Connaught Brown Gallery, London
1993 June/Aug  'Made Strange: New British Sculpture', Museum Ludwig, Budapest
1993 June  'Then and Now: Twenty-Three Years at the Serpentine Gallery', Serpentine Gallery, London
1993 June  'Five Works: Keith Coventry, Michael Landy, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread and Alison Wilding', Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1993 June/July  �Hindsight: Selected works made for the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio 1989-93�, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Guiseppe Penone, Ulrich R�ckriem, Lawrence Weiner and Alison Wilding; The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio, Dean Clough
1993 Nov/  'Camaras de Friccon: Juan Usle, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Sophie Calle, Aliosn Wilding' Galeria
1994 Jan  Luis Adelantado, Valencia
1993/ 1994  'Recent British Sculpture', Arts Council touring exhibition (Derby, City Museum and Art Gallery; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; London, Royal Festival Hall; Coventry, Mead Art Gallery and Herbert Art Gallery; Hull, Ferens Art Gallery; Llandudno Oriel Mostyn; Eastbourne, Tower Art Gallery; Bournmouth, Russell-Cotes Museum and Art Gallery; Bath, Victoria Art Gallery; Plymouth, City Museum and Art Gallery; Aberyswith Arts Centre)
1994 March/April  'A Group Show: Keith Coventry, Peter Davis, Anya Gallaccio, Zebedee Jones, Bridget Riley and Alison Wilding', Karsten Schubert, London
1995 June/July   'Then and Now', Serpentine Gallery, London
1995 May/October  Roche Court Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 1995, New Art Centre, East Winterslow Wiltshire
1995 May/October  'British Art of the 80s and 90s: The Weltkunst Collection', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1995 June/Nov   British Contemporary Sculpture: From Henry Moore to the 90s'' , Auditoria de Galicia, Compostela and Fundacio de Serralves, Porto
1995 June/July  'Here & Now', Serpentine Gallery, London
1995 June/August  'Decadence', Trondhjems Kunstforening, Norway
1995 Aug/Sep  'British Abstract Art, Part 2: Sculpture', Flowers East Gallery, London
1995 Aug/Sep  Summer Group Show, Karsten Schubert, London
1995 Aug/Sep  'Natural Settings', Chelsea Physic Garden, London
1996  'Between the Sheets', ARCO, Stand AO13, Ediciones Beneveniste Relatores, Madrid, Spain
1996 March/May  Cleveland Drawing Biennale, Cleveland
1996 August/Sep  'Plastic', Richard Salmon , London
1996 Aug/Sep  ''British Abstract Art III: Works on Paper', Flowers East, London
1996 Sep/Nov  'From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors' Drawings, Frith Street Gallery and Karsten Schubert, London
1996 Sep/Oct   'Orte des Moglichen: Weibliche Positionen in der Bildenden Kunst', Hypobank International SA, Luxembourg
1996 Oct/Nov   'Orte des Moglichen: Weibliche Positionen in der Bildenden Kunst', Achenbach Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf
1997 Jan  'Plastic', Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1997 Jan/March   'Marking Presence', ArtSway, Lymington (Hampshire)
1997 Jan/Feb  Group Show, Karsten Schubert, London
1997 March  'Building Site' (Fernando Arias, Christine Borland, Melanie Counsel, Douglas Gordon, Shona Illingworth, Elizabeth Le Moin, Cornellia Parker, Jonathan Parsons, David Ward, Richard Wentworth, Alison Wilding), Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
1997 April/July  'Material Culture:The Object in British Art of the 1980's and '90s', Hayward Gallery, London
1997 July/Aug  'Plastic', Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
1997 Sep/Oct   'Plastic', Richard Salmon Gallery. London
1998  'Interactive', Amaranda Hess, London
1998 March/April  'Drawing Itself', The London Institute, London
1998 March/June  'The Edward R Broida Collection: A Selection of Works', Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
1998 Nov/ Feb 1999  'Forjar el Espacio. La escultura forjada del siglo XX' Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain
1998 Nov/ May1999  'Thinking Aloud' National Touring Exhibition for the Arts Council of England, curated by Richard Wentworth (Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Camden Arts Centre, London)
1999 Nov/Feb 2000  �At Home with Art� National Touring Exhibition, first exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London
2000 April  Robert Hopper Memorial Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2000 May/July  �Sculpture, an Abbey and a Cathedral�, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester
2000 July/Sept  �Sculpture, an Abbey and a Cathedral� Malmesbury Abbey and Abbey House Gardens, Wiltshire
2000 July/August  �Sculpture and the Divine�, The Henry Moore Foundation, Winchester Cathedral
2002 Feb/April   �Pure Containment � Sculptures from the Arts Council Collection�, Orleans House Gallery,
  Twickenham
2003 Jan/March  �Nightwood� (Ansuya Blom, Kate Davis, Ana Hatherly, Mandy Ure, Alison Wilding), Rhodes & Mann Gallery, London

Selected Bibliography:

Catalogues Published for Group Exhibitions:
1979  Hugh Stoddart: 'New Sculpture', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
  Fenella Crichton: 'Eight Women Artists', Acme Gallery, London
1982  David Brown: 'Collazione Inglese', Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice
  Shelagh Wakely: 'Sculpture in the Garden', Camden Arts Centre, London
  Andrea Rose: XII Biennale de Paris
1983  Michael Newman: 'Figures and Objects', John Hansard Gallery, London
  'The Sculpture Show', Arts Council of Great Britain
  John McEwen: 'Transformations', catalogue for the exhibition at the Biennale di Sao Paulo and the Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janiero
  Fenella Crichton: 'Fifty Sculptors at the Serpentine & the South Bank', catalogue for the exhibition at the Haywood & Serpentine Galleries, London
1983/4  Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton: 'The British Art Show', catalogue for touring exhibition at the City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mappin Art Gallery & The Southampton Art Gallery
1985  Jeremy Lewison: 'The British Show', catalogue for the touring exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, & The National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington
  Achille Bonito Oliva: 'Nuove Trame dell'Arte', catalogue for the exhibition at Castello Colonna, Genezzano, Italy
  Renato Barilli & Flavio Caroli: 'Anniottanta', catalogue for the exhibition at Bologna, Imola, Rimini & Ravenna, Italy
  Martin Kunz: 'Synonyms for Sculpture', catalogue for the exhibition at the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria
  Carmen Giminez: 'Entre El Objecto y La Imagen', British Council, Madrid
  Arturo Schwartz: 'Art & Alchemy', part of 'Art & Science', Venice Biennale, Venice
  Lynne Cooke: Louisiana Revy, published to coincide with 'Sculpture, 9 Artists from Britain', at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humleaeck, Denmark
  Peter Weiermair: 'Prospect '86', Frankfurt Kunstverein
1987  Lynne Cooke: 'Art Brittiskt 1980 - Tal', Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm / British Council
  Catherine Lampert: 'Reason and Emotion in Contemporary Art', Edinburgh International, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1988  Gregory Salzman: Richard Deacon, Tom Dean, Remo Salvatori, Alison Wilding; Art Gallery of Windson, Canada ('All That Matters')
  Lynne Cooke: 'British Art: The Literate Link', Asher-Faure, Los Angeles, CA
  Lynne Cooke: 'Starlit Waters, British Sculpture, Gan Inter national Art', Tate Gallery, Liverpool
  Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton: 'Vanitas', Norwich School of Art Gallery, Norwich
  Sandra Grant Marchand: 'British Now - Sculpture & Other Drawings', Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
  Arielle Pelenc: 'Cinquiemes Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire', Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France
  'Seri�s', Wanda Reiff Gallery, Maastricht, Holland
  Catherine Lampert: 'Brittania - 30 Ans de Sculpture', Mus�e des Beaux-Artes Andr� Malraux, Le Havre, France
  Hayward Galley 'Now For The Future': Purchases for the Arts Council Collection since 1984
1989  Marco Livingstone: 'British Object Sculptors of '80s II', Kyoto Shoin International Co Pulisher, Kyoto
1991  Juan Vicente Aliaga: 'Pulsio: Louise Bourgeois, Pepe Espaliu, Alison Wilding, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Barcelona
1993   'Recent British Sculpture', Arts Council exhibition catalogue
  �Hindsight: Selected works made for the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio 1989-93�, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Guiseppe Penone, Ulrich R�ckriem, Lawrence Weiner and Alison Wilding; The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio, Dean Clough
1995   'British Art of the 80s and 90s: The Weltkunst Collection', leaflet, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (ill)
  'Decadence', Trondhjems Kunstforening, Norway, catalogue (ill)
  'Here and Now', exhibition catalogue, (ill)
  Keith Patrick and Maite Lores: 'Contemporary British Sculpture: From Henry Moore to the 90s', exhibition catalogue, Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela and Fundacio de Serralves, Porto (ill)
  'Drawing In All Directions, exhibition catalogue Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, Cleveland (essay by Penelope Curtis) (ill)
1996  'Richard Shone: From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors' Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Frith Street Gallery and Karsten Schubert, London 1996 (ill)
  Katharina Hegewisch (ed): 'Orte des Moglichen: Weibliche Positionen in der zeitgenossischen Kunst', exhibition catalogue, Hypobank International S A, Luxembourg and Achenbach Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf (ill)
1997  Neal Cummings and Joan Key (essays), 'Plastic', exhibition catalogue, Richard Salmon Gallery, London
1998  Sue Scott (Ed): 'The Edward R Broida Collection: A Selection of Works', exhibition catalogue, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
1998  tate magazine 'artranspennine98' (exhibition guide)
1998  Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud; exhibition catalogue (essay by Nick Groom) National Touring Exhibitions
1999  Colin Painter �At Home with Art� Hayward Gallery Publishing

Catalogues published for one person exhibitions:

1985  Lynne Cooke: 'Alison Wilding', Serpentine Gallery, London
1987  Gray Watson: 'Alison Wilding: Sculptures', Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1988  Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton: 'Alison Wilding: Sculptures 1987/88', Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1989  Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton: 'Alison Wilding', Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1991  Greg Hilty: 'Alison Wilding: Immersion - Sculpture from Ten Years', Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1993  Hilary Gresty: 'Alison Wilding: Bare', Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
1994  Mike Tooby: 'Alison Wilding', Tate Gallery St Ives, Cornwall
1995  Victoria Pomery (ed): 'Alison Wilding: Echo', exhibition catalogue, Angel Row Gallery and Karsten Schubert Contemporary Art Ltd, Nottingham and London (essay by Brian Catling
1996  Annette Haudiquet (ed): 'Alison Wilding: Sculptures 1989-1996', exhibition catalogue, Musee des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle de Calais, Calais (with an essay by Penelope Curtis)
1997  Paul Bonacentura: 'Alison Wilding: Intensities', exhibition catalogue, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal
1997  'Alison Wilding: Territories', exhibition catalogue, Edmonton Art Gallery and Art Gallery of York University
1998  'Alison Wilding: Grounded', exhibition catalogue, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

Reviews:

1980  Michael Newman  'Eight Women Artists: 1980', Arts Review, July 11th
1982  Michael Newman  'New Sculpture in Britain', Art in America, September
1984  Kenneth Baker  'Alison Wilding at Salvatore Ala', Art in America, March
1984/5  Nena Dimitrijevic  'La Sculpture Apres L'Evolution', Flash Art, Winter, no 6
1985  William Packer  Financial Times, April 16th
  William Feaver  The Observer, April 21st
  Richard Cork  'Precarious Poise', The Listener, April 25th
  Marina Vaizey  The Sunday Times, April 28th
  Victoria Lyn  'Six British Sculptors', Art In Australia
  Nena Dimitrijevic  'Alison Wilding at the Serpentine' Flash Art International, Summer, no 123
  Maria Luisa Agnese & Rachele Enriquez:  'Ma se siamo solo a meta', Panorama, June 9th
    'Due obiettivi Puntati sugli artisti di oggi', La Provincia di Como, June 27th
  Antonio d'Avossa  'Le Trame del Castello', Flash Art International, no 128
  Massimo Kaufman  'Ala vola con la Wilding', Viva Milano, September 9th
  Luisa Somaini  'Alison Wilding', in Tutto Arte, La Repubblica, September 27th
    'Alison Wilding', La Repubblica, October 2nd
    'Alison Wilding' in Fine Secolo, Reporter, October 4th
  G Manfredini  'Alison Wilding', L'Expresso, October 10th
  Maurizio Calvesi  'Come'ere 'in' la Pop Art', L'Expresso October 7th
  Peppo Peduzzi  'Alison Wilding', Il Giornale dell'Arte, no 27, October
  Ricardo Barletta  'Alison Wilding', Corriere della Sera, October 30th
    'Alison Wilding', Grazia, November
  Massimo Kaufmann  'Alison Wilding', Flash Art International, no 129, November
1986  Barbara Maestri  'Alison Wilding', Artforum, February
  Lynne Cooke  'Alison Wilding: Sailing On', Artscribe, no 57
  Jene Silverthorne  'Alison Wilding at Salvator Ala', Artforum, Summer
  Clare Henry  Arts Review, September
1987  Richard Cork  'Making Space', The Listener, May 7th
  Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton  Reviews, Flash Art, no.136
  William Feaver  'Alison Wilding', Vogue, April
  William Packer  Financial Times, April 28th
  Andrew Graham-Dixon  Harpers and Queen, May
  Sarah Jane Checkland  'In the Eye', London Daily News, May 8th
  Mary Rose Beaumont  'Alison Wilding', Arts Review, May 8th
  John Russell  'Alison Wilding, Sculptor at the Modern', New York Times November 27th
1988  Colin Gardner  'Art as a Metaphor: Wilding Illustrates Political Beliefs
  Steven Appleton  'A Question of Naming', Artweek
  Cathy Curtis  Los Angeles Times
1989  John Russell   New York Times, April 7th
  Buzz Spector  Artcoast, March/April, pp 84-85
  Kate Bush  Flash Art, March/April, pp 121-122
  Peggy Cyphers  'Camelot Meets Star Trek: An Interchange of Interior and Exterior', Cover, May, p 13 (ill.)
  Liz Markus  Sculpture, July/August pp 37-38 (ill.)
  Greg Hilty  Arena, no 1, February pp 104-105 (ill.)
  Amy Gerstler  Art Issues, January 1989, no 1 vol 1 (ill.)
1990  Sarah Kent  Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert Ltd: Time Out, November 21-28 no 1057 p 29 (ill)
  Roger Bevan  Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert Ltd: The Art Newspaper, no 2 November 1990 p 25
  Sachiko Tamashige  Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert Ltd: Nikkei Art, Japan, January 1991 p 137 (ill)
  Richard Dorment  'Sculptor with a sense of mystery', Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert Ltd: The Daily Telegraph, November 7 p 18
  Fiona Gunn  Interview, Agenda 12 Contemporary Art Magazine, Melbourne, Australia, August 1990
1991    Alison Wilding: Nikkei Art no 1/1991, p 137 (Ill)
  Philip Key  Tate mixes Ancient and Modern, Daily Post, Liverpool, May 2, (ill)
  Mary Sara  Making imagery accessible, Yorkshire Post, June 24 (ill)
  Gerald Deslandes  Alison Wilding at the Tate Gallery Liverpool, Arts Review, June 28, p 336 (ill)
    'Wilding Things': Interview Magazine, June 1991
  Robert Clark  Alison Wilding at the Tate Gallery Liverpool: The Guardian, June 5
  Richard Cork  'Rewards of a mysterious, enigmatic Talent: Alison Wilding in Halifax and Liverpool', The Times, June 26 (ill)
  Tom Lubbock  'The material missing link': Alison Wilding at Dean Clough, Halifax. The Sunday Independent, July 7.
  James Hall  'Steeling the show': Alison Wilding at Dean Clough, Halifax, and Tate Gallery, Liverpool. The Independent, July 9, (ill)
  Celia Lyttleton  'Parcours Britannique': Galleries Magazine, pp 60-63 (ill)
  Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton  'Immersion and Exposure', Artscribe, September, pp 80/81 (ill)
1992  Emmanuel Cooper  'Karsten Couch', Time Out Magazine No 1125, March 11-18, p 39
  Amelia Jones   'Alison Wilding at Asher-Faure', Artforum International Vol XXX, No 9,May, pp124/125 (ill)
  Maureen Paley   'Turner's Gameplan', Women's Art Magazine No 48, pp 4-6 (ill) (and cover)
  Richard Dorment  'Tips For The Turner', The Daily Telegraph, August 12, p 12
    'Endpieces', Arts Review Magazine, September, p 407
  Bob Bird   'Sensual Sculpture', Evening Sentinel, October 3
  Richard Cork  'On prize-winning form', The Times, October 30, p 37 (ill)
  Bruce Bernard  'A Glowing Candidate', The Independent Magazine, October 31, pp 58/59 (ill)
  Rebecca Fortnum  'Prize Fighter', The Guardian, October 30, p 13 (ill)
    'Hanging In', The Observer, November 1, p 1
  Joanna Coles  'Sex, Jeans, 36 Dead Fish, a Tank and an Ego Go for Turner Prize', The Guardian, November 4, p 22
  David Lister  'Work in Progress Puzzles as Fish Provide The Fun', The Independent, November 4 (ill)
  Martin Gayford  'Has the rot set in?', The Daily Telegraph, November 4, p 18
  Susan Moore  'Sensuous Sculpture', Financial Times, November 6
  John McEwen  'Time to call a busted flush', The Sunday Telegraph, November 8
  A Guest Reviewer  'Striking New Art at the Tate', The New Line, November 9, p 9 (ill)
  Alison Yarrington  'I Figure I'm A Woman', Women's Art Magazine No 49, November, pp 1315 (ill)
  Sue Hubbard  'The Naked Artist', New Statesman and Society Magazine, November 13, pp 29/30
  Bill Saunders  'Obscure Objects of Desire', Girl About Town Magazine, November 16
  Brian Sewell  'Prize and Prejudice', The Evening Standard, November 19, p 31
  Tim Hilton   'And the winner is...the Hype', The Independent on Sunday, November 22, p 27 (ill)
  Sarah Kent  'Turner Bout', Time Out Magazine, November 11-18, pp 24/25 (ill)
  Kate Oldfield  'Dead Fish with Asthma, London Student Magazine, November 19, p 9
  William Packer  'A Narrow View of Art', The Financial Times, November 21/22, p XI
  Alison Wilding  'Sliding Into Initmacy', The Guardian, November 21, p 18
    'The best four?', The Economist Magazine, November 21-27, p 156
  Eric Bailey  'How should we look at it?', The Daily Telegraph, November 23, p 19
  Philip Hensher   'Play the wild card', The Guardian, November 24, pp 4/5 (ill)
  Robin Stringer   'Controversy as outsider wins Turner Prize', The Evening Standard, November 25, p 18
  Philip Hensher   'The stuffed fish did't win', The Guardian, November 25, p 5
  Sarah Kent  'The Judge's Verdict', The Guardian, November 25, p 5
  David Lister  'Sculptor triumphs with an industrial vision', The Independent, November 25, p 2
  Giles Auty  'Prize Idiocy', The Spectator Magazine, November 28, p 57
    'Recent Acquisitions of twentieth-century sculpture by British museums', The Burlington Magazine, December, pp 842- 846 (ill)
  John McDonald  'Turner Takes the Flak', Contemporary Art magazine, Vol I, No 1, Winter, pp 66/67
1993  Hilton Kramer  'Cons & Icons', Arts Review Magazine Volume XLV, January, pp 12/13 (ill)
  Robert Clark  'Traces of the Figure, Revery, Myth, Sensuality', The Guardian, January 12
  John Turner  'Traces of the Figure/ Reverie, Myth, Sensuality', Northern Star, January 14
  Doris Krumpl  'Totale Erinnerung', Der Standard, January 8
    'Britisk skulptur i tiden og rommet', Vart Land, Oslo, February 3
  George Morgenstern  Tiltalende utstilling av britisk skulptur', Astenposten, Oslo, February 9
  Harald Flor  ''Britisk Blanding', Dagblad, Oslo, February 11
  Peter Serk  'Materialenes Vesen', Klassenkampen, Oslo, March 18
  Sarah Kent   �The Turner Prize 1992�, Patrons of New Art Newsletter, spring, pp 4-5
  William Feaver  'The Wilding Case', (British) Vogue, April, p 53 (ill)
  Giles Auty   'Shock Tactics', The Spectator Magazine, May 1, 1993, pp 42/3
  Charles Hall  'Alison Wilding Just Gets Better and Better...', The Guardian, May 1, p 12 (ill)
  John McEwen  'Come Up and See Me Soap the Wife Sometime', Sunday Telegraph, May 2
  William Feaver   'New Life Out of Old Wood', The Observer, May 2
  Richard Cork  'Plane Speaking in Form', The Times, May 7, p 31 (ill)
  Sue Hubbard   'Alison Wilding at Karsten Schubert', Time Out Magazine, No 1187, May 19-26, p 38 (ill)
  Richard Salmon  'Small and Ravishing', The Spectator Magzine, May 22, p 24
    special London issue, art Das Kunstmagazin, No 7, July, p 42 (ill)
  John Stathatos  'Alison Wilding at Karsten Schubert', Untitled Magazine. Autumn, No 2, p 8 (ill)
  Richard Cork  'Patrons of Rare Vision', The Times, December 21, p 25
1994    'Art Comes To I T N', Blueprint Magazine, No 108, June, p 14 (ill)
  David Lee  'Alison Wilding', Art Review Magazine, pp 6-10 (ill)
1995  David Lillington  'Alison Wilding', Time Out Magazin e, February 1-8, p 44 (ill)
  Hugh Stoddart  'Alsion Wilding', Art Monthly Magazine,, February pp182-183 (ill)
  Brian Sewell  'Twenty-Five Years With the Rag- and Bone-Man', Evening Standard, June 29, p 31 (ill)
  Tim Hilton  'Now Here's a Thing',The Independent on Sunday,
    'Sculptor Work', Nottingham Evening Post, August 26
  William Packer  'Moulded To Its Environment', The Financial Times, p XVI
    agiTATE, Tate Magazine, Winter, p.10 (ill)
  Charles Hall  'Resounding success', The Times, Tuesday November 14, 1995 (ill.)
  Sharon McCann  Fried Circuit/ Overall, November , (ill.)
    'Talks on Sculpture', Nottingham Evening Post, October 14
    Preview, The Guide, The Guardian, p. 3
    Photo-copy, October
    Pick of the Week, The Independent, October 10
1996    Burlington Calender March - 'Echo' Illustration
  Richard Cork  'Look closer, and all is revealed', The Times, Tuesday April 9, p.11 (ill)
  Tania Guha  'Alison Wilding', Time Out, No 1337 April 3-10, p.48 (ill.)
  Estelle Lovett  'Alison Wilding:Echo', SX magazine ,April 3, p.12
  Laura Church  'Alison Wilding at Karsten Schubert', Asian Sculpture News, Volume 2, Number 2 Spring 1996
    Time Out, Dublin Event Guide, May 1996 (ill)
  C.Allemand-Cosneau  'British Sculpture in France', The Henry Moore Foundation
  & C Ferbos-Nakov  Review, Issue 3 Autumn 1996, pp 6-7 (ill.)
  Suzanne Cotter  �Alison Wilding; Musee des Beaux Arts, Calais�, Untitled, November 1996, p 25 (ill)
1997    �Bank Art� The Big Issue, Feb 25-Mar 4 1997 (ill)
  Philip Hensher  'Object Lessons' Mail on Sunday, April 6 1997, Night & Day (ill)
  Richard Shone  'Material Witness' The Observer Review, April 6 1997
  Sarah Kent  �Material Culture�, Time Out, April 16-23 1997, p 44 (ill)
  Martin Gayford  'Poppet Green is alive and well' The Spectator, April 261997 p48
  Charles Mandel  'Wilding Knows the Territories', Edmonton Journal, Dec 15, 1
    Canadian Art Magazine, Vol 14, No 4, p 11 (ill)
1998  John Bentley Mays  'English Artist names the unnamable', The Globe and Mail, (Canada), February 21, p C9
  Jemma Cooper  'It's a Flowing Tribute to Shipbuilding',Evening Chronicle (Sunderland), November 5, p11
  Alistair Robinson  'Revealed: the Wear's floating rival for the Angel', Sunderland Echo, November 13
  Zo� Burn  'Glowing Praise for Wear's Floating River Sculpture' Sunderland Echo, November 14
  Robert M Murdock  'Alison Wilding: A Project', Review (NY), December 15, p 25-6
  Grace Glueck  'Art in Review: Alison Wilding' The New York Times, December 18, Weekend p E40
  Alex Potts  'Edinburgh and Skipton Castle. Carl Andre and Alison Wilding' Burlington Magazine, December 1998, pp 848-850
  Gail-Nina Anderson  'Grounded: Alison Wilding' Northern Review, Dec 1998 - Jan 1999, p6
1999  John Whitley  �Wilding�s water baby� The Daily Telegraph, 16 Sept 1999 (ill)
    �Will Wear�s floating sculpture rival the Angel?� Sunderland Echo, 23 Sept 1999, p1 & p7 (ill)
    �Reflections on a past glory� Journal 24 Sept 1999
  Alistair Robinson  �Wear�s latest launch � and it�s all in the name of art� Sunderland Echo, 28 Sept 1999, p1 & p7 (ill)
  Peter Hetherington  �Floating art evokes city�s past� The Guardian, 29 Sept 1999, p 4 (ill)
  Paul Stokes  �Steel tubes become mainstream art� The Daily Telegraph, p9 (ill)
    �ambit n. the scope, extent, or bounds of something now bobbing about on the Wear� Sunderland Echo, 29 Sept 1999, p3 (ill)
    �Dawn on the river shows first floating sculpture in its best light� Northern Echo, 29 Sept 1999 (ill)
    �Water show lights river�, Sunderland Echo, 30 Sept 1999, p1/3 (ill)
    AN Magazine, Nov 1999, �Ambit� on cover, p10
  Jonathan Jones  �Ring of bright water� The Guardian, 2 Oct 1999 (ill)
2000  Ian Tromp  �Making Visible � On Alison Wilding� Sculpture Magazine, Jan - Feb 2000, pp 17-23 (ill)
2001  Morgan Falconer  �An abstract Passion� (Contract) ArtReview, Feb 2001 (3, ill)
  Lynne MacRitchie  �The raw materials of Passion� (Contract) Financial Times, 15 Jan 2001 (ill)
2002  Mira Hudson  �Matter Into Form� RA Magazine, Summer 2002