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.
Sphenoid Rorschach
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Photography
137.2cm x 129.5cm
Giclee Print, Edition of 5
The sphenoid bone lies at the base of the skull, one of the seven bones that articulate to form the orbit, and houses the pituitary gland. The Rorschach inkblot test is a method of psychological evaluation in which subjects' instant perceptions of arbitrary smudged black inkblots are recorded and then analyzed intuitively or by key and can be used to determine emotional function or even psychotic thinking, here brought out in the heavy shadow beneath of the bone.
£900
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