Wilding, Alison (1948– )

English sculptor. Since the mid-1970s she has evolved her own quietly authoritative abstract style using a variety of materials, including brass, steel, acrylic, beeswax, fossils and pigments, often with an outer structure enveloping an inner mysterious core, as in Red Skies (1991) and Fugue (1992). She was nominated for a Turner Prize in 1992.

Wilding was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. She trained at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in Bromley, Kent, and in 1971 went to the Royal College of Art. Her exhibitions include Immersion (Tate Gallery, London, and Liverpool) and Exposure (Halifax). Recent work includes her stainless steel Echo (1995) for the Angel Row Art Gallery, Nottingham.