Alison Wilding was commissioned to create a permanent artwork for the interior reception area of a new development, 10 New Burlington Street, London W1 located along Regent Street.
Shimmy is fabricated from 400 individual strips of mirror-polished stainless steel, and contains 28 [coloured] acrylic spheres caught in the uppermost layers of the sculpture.
Royal Academician Alison Wilding is one of the foremost British sculptors of her generation, known for her consistently inventive and intuitive approach to form and materials.
“My immediate response to the building plans was that the artwork needed to ‘dance’ in its allotted space”, comments the artist. “I want the work to have a sense of the organic, extending into a space but simultaneously reabsorbed into it.”
Commissioned by The Crown Estate and Exemplar and Curated by Modus Operandi.