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Wilson’s work is crystallised around subjects; animal mimicry, ancestral knowledge, the cosmos, and magical practices, all things not easily articulated through language. Her paintings, tapestries, ceramics and performances weave together images, symbols and events found in the natural world such as fibonacci spirals, animal camouflage and atmospheric phenomena and visions.
Her inky, waxy, textured paintings employ sgraffito, frottage, mono-printing and collage. Sometimes panels are replaced with holographic substrates - applying paint, inks and wax to these colour-shifting surfaces means they never settle - always remaining in flux. These iridescent paintings can be likened to how it might be to observe a chameleon walk through a rainbow.
Wilson has presented work at major international arts institutions; Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Royal Academy of Arts (London), BALTIC 39, (Newcastle), The Bauhaus Museum, (Dessau), The Museum of London, Newlyn Gallery, (Cornwall), The Armory Centre, (California). Recent exhibitions include: 'Miniaturing', 2024, (solo) M2 Gallery, London, ‘Erotic Ecologies’, 2024, APT Gallery, London, 'Time & Tenderness', 2024, Daniel Katz Gallery, London curated by Jenn Ellis and Xenia Creative Retreat, 'Is the image even human?', 2023, Cervantes Institute, New Dehli, 'TERRA', curated by Jenn Ellis, Burgundy France, 2023, 'Not Painting, 2021', Copperfield Gallery, 'Afterimage', 2021, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London. She curated ‘Painting in Time’ 2015, The Tetley, (Leeds) which then toured to the School of the Arts Chicago.
Earlier this year her writing on Painting and Performance was published in Edition 9.2 of the Journal of Contemporary Painting. Accompanying the journal she held an in-conversation titled SHAPESHIFTER: Painting & Performance with Catherine Wood (Director of Exhibitions & Programmes Tate Modern).
Wilson lives and works in London. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2008-2010), and a Practice based PhD awarded by University of Leeds (2017). She is a Senior Lecturer of BA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.