Meet the artist

Julian Wild

Wild’s early work centred around a series of sculptures he called ‘Systems.’ Several of the works featured on the ArtLab website come from this series. Here, he is using processes and materials that suggest a function, from gilded picture frame moulding to heavy duty steel gas pipe. Most of this work is based on a single line; from this he draws a volume in space. Working against the material’s nature he builds ordered geometric shapes out of one chaotic line.

 

From 2009, he has begun to move away from these forms that he describes as ‘restrictive geometric structures.’ The work as a consequence has become more fluid and intuitive. The works ‘Whipple’ and ‘Schloop’ reflect this modification to his practice. 

 

Wild has produced public works of art for Millfield School in Somerset and on Maida Vale in Central London for the developer Crest Nicholson. He was a finalist in Jerwood sculpture Prize in 2004.

 

Work by this artist