Best-known for her ambitious sculptural works, Alison Wilding: On Paper explores how the artist’s compelling drawing and extensive use of collage has been integral to her developments for five decades.

Whilst sharing affiliations with Wilding’s three-dimensional work, the artist’s drawings – often in series – expand upon her investigation of surface by using a distinctive formal language. The works are characterised by a strong interplay between representation and metaphor, incorporating a range of materials – from ink to silicone fluid – to visualise and test ideas of mass and depth.

Alongside essays by Anna Lovatt and Penelope Curtis, and an in-conversation with the artist by Rosie Cooper, this full-colour survey of over 300 illustrations offers the opportunity to track subtle correspondences in forms and concepts between historic and recent series of works.

Published by Ridinghouse books
Publisher Sophie Caroline Kullman
Printed by Verona Libri
Designed by Studio Giulia Garbin assisted by Juliet Ramsden
Repro by Dexter Premedia