*Julian Wild (b.1973)

*Julian Wild (b.1973)

Stripping the Willow

Number 3 in edition of 3

Lacquered and painted bronze, 2019

250 x 60 x 60cm

The other two editions of Stripping the Willow were sold to the Kressner collection and to the Cate Blanchett collection.

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Julian Wild makes sculpture. In his recent work: hard-edged, ordered forms are disrupted by organic elements that are awkward in form and sensuous in surface. In other sculptures rigid, minimal forms are corrupted through the imposition of a gesture. Wild's sculptures are crafted from materials such as bronze and stainless steel, and combine assemblage, metal casting and fabrication. He often uses colour as an agent to identify form in space. The colours that he uses references the painted sculptures of modernists such as Judd and Caro, Wild's works often split the colour open to reveal the sculpture's metallic interior or vice versa. Wild's structures reference architecture, engineering and the body. He creates sculptures that often appear to defy gravity and sense by cantilevering or stacking impossibly.

He has held solo exhibitions at Burghley House Incomplete Systems (2011), Bishops Square Spitalfi?elds To Market, to Market (2012) and Maddox Arts Fear of Geometry (2012), Leighton House Museum Wrestling Pythons (2013) & Modern Art Oxford (2013), William Benington Gallery The Island (2014), Canary Wharf Stripping the Willow (2015), William Benington Gallery Make Shift (2017) and The Said Business School Janus (2019).

He has exhibited in group exhibitions at Sculpture in the City 2014, Sculpture at Fulmer, Grizedale Arts, The House of St. Barnabus, Fold Gallery, The Saatchi Gallery, Beyond Limits with Sothebys at Chatsworth House and the Irish Museum of Modern Art amongst others.

He has been commissioned to make public artworks for: Modern Forms, The University of Oxford, Fidelity Investments, Millfi?eld School, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Crest Nicholson, Jerwood Sculpture Park, Schroders, Wyeth Europa, Radley College, Sculpture in the Parklands in Ireland, The Burghley House Preservation Trust and Canary Wharf Group.