Hugo Wilson
Prior to completing his MA at the City and Guilds, London in 2008, Wilson attended the prominent Charles H. Cecil Studio in Florence, Italy, and had a successful but now defunct career as a portrait artist. Wilson’s conceptual work looks at various systems of order and the human pursuit of organising and knowing chaos. Fascinated by a Victorian sense of wonder, he often borrows from the aesthetic of the era, as well as defunct, handmade crafts. Ideas of genetics and religion are exposed, often in characteristic mischief and subversion; the documentation of whimsical scientific experimentation or recording modern discovery on obsolete media, while distancing himself from cynicism of critique. In 2009, Wilson has featured in The Old Vic/Punchdrunk collaboration Tunnel 228 and the self-curated Terra Nihilus at Maddox Arts.
Sliding Clamp
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Illustration
40cm x 40cm
Dyeline print, Ammonia treated paper
A sliding clamp, also known as a DNA clamp is a protein fold that binds associated DNA. Its multimeric structure surrounds and moves up the Double Helix. Because of the torque needed for this binding, it can slip, making some of the make up of a person open to chance.
£1,100
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