† Julian Wild FRSS (b.1973)

† Julian Wild FRSS (b.1973)
Stripping the Willow 5
Painted and lacquered bronze, unique
60cm high, 30cm wide, 15cm deep

Julian Wild is a fellow of The Royal Society of Sculptors and was Vice-president from 2015-2019. He is Sculpture Leader and a Senior Lecturer at The Art Academy London. He lives and works in Sussex, UK. Wild’s works allude to minimalist sculptures disrupted by interventions and gestures within their form. He often uses colour as an agent to exaggerate the contrast between interior and exterior or to give an object a presence in space. Many of his installations take the form of man-made versions of natural structures, with geometric forms appearing to grow up out of the ground. Wild has exhibited at venues including Modern Art Oxford, Chatsworth House (Sotheby’s), Sculpture in the City, Canary Wharf, V22, William Benington Gallery and The Ann Norton Sculpture Garden in Florida. In 2005, he was a finalist in the Jerwood Sculpture Prize and won the Millfield Sculpture Prize in the same year.