Tony Wilson’s work is strongly individual and independent. His paintings respond directly to events, people and places that have touched his life. He often takes on complex themes and subject matter by the use of a language that might draw upon the figurative, the abstract, the emblematic and the allegorical, a pictorial language that speaks in its own terms of all that cannot be put into words.
A painter whose quest to marry making and meaning, the personal and the transpersonal, the existential and the archetypal, has resulted in some of the most ambitious and intriguing images in recent British art.
The exhibition is a survey of painting and prints which places emphasis on the most recent series of works, Iron Ladder, Remembered Figures and Requiem, with related ‘key’ earlier paintings, acting as reference markers, mapping the overall development of ideas and how work learns lessons from its own past.
Tony Wilson is presently principal lecturer and subject leader of painting and printmaking at the University of Brighton.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with essays by Professor Michael Tucker, Mel Good and an interview with Barry Barker.
