Biography
Keith Wilson (b. Birmingham, UK 1965) studied at Bournville College of Art (1984–85), at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford 1985088) and the Slade School of Art, London (1988-90). He won a Laura Ashley Scholarship in 1989; a Boise Travel Scholarship, 1990; and a LAB Individual Artist Award, 1994. In 1995 Wison was artist-in-residence at Camden Arts Centre and held show there in 1996. Other exhibitions have included Into the Nineties 2, Mall Galleries, 1990; a shared show at Diorama Gallery, 1992; Tight at The Tannery, Bermondsey, and Turning Up at The View, Liverpool, both 1994; and at the Anna Bornholt Gallery, 1995. In 1999, Wilson’s projects Library and Puddle at Harris Museum, Preston earned national press coverage. The Saatchi Collection holds his work. In 2000, Charles Saatchi presented Wilson’s 1995 sculpture Scape to Leeds Museums and Galleries. Wilson was involved in the exhibition The object sculpture at The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, in 2002, and he had a solo exhibition at The Economist Plaza in 2005.
Wilson's sculptures are assemblages of discarded objects which he collects from the street or comes across in other ways: furniture, musical instrument cases, photographs, toys etc. The pieces work in part as purely formal sculptural objects, but are never allowed to lose their sense of past lives and personal histories.
