theCOLAB is delighted to present Alice Wilson, Artist in Residence in the Artist’s Hut at The ARTIST’S GARDEN. Throughout her residency, running from September - December 2023, Wilson will be exploring ways to realise a long held ambition of constructing lofty dwelling in the trees.

Her door is always open (weather permitting) to talk about her ideas. Please visit to see the project taking shape.

The Artist will be available to meet on Tuesday 10th October 2023, 5-6pm as part of The Artist’s Garden Triple Bill, with cocktails courtesy of Mezcal Reina.

Open Studio Weekend at The Artist’s Hut: The hut door will be open to all for an open studio weekend 21st - 22nd October.

About Alice Wilson

Alice Wilson's practice regularly uses elements of landscape furniture and structures such as gates, benches, chairs, huts, cabins and treehouses as both subject and object. She identifies the use of residencies as a way to gain distance and make space for the unknown in her work.

Wilson rejects the specificity of a particular form or site. Instead, she is interested in exploring ideas of home and space. It is not a final representation that she works towards, but through the act of construction she is able to understand better what the fundamental meaning of the material is for her. The majority of the material Wilson uses is not new; the nails, paint, hinges and splinters having lost their original function. However, rather than memorialising their histories, Wilson explores new ways of combining and framing her material to push it towards unfamiliarity.

She has received significant funding from the British Council and Arts Council England for research projects and exhibitions in Aarhus, Denmark (2018) and Merz Barn, Cumbria (2017.) Exhibiting widely both nationally and internationally Wilson is represented by domobaal gallery, London. Most recently she made and installed work in Mumbai, India with SqW Lab (2023.) She has work in several collections including the National Maritime Museum.

Wilson is a lecturer in Fine Art at University of the Arts London, University of East a London and on MASS an independent course dedicated to the making of sculpture.

www.alicewilson.org / @alice_m_wilson

About the Artist’s Garden

The Artist’s Garden was a neglected public space, reclaimed as a platform for women artists and launched in 2021.  Built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette in 1870 as part of Victoria Embankment to resolve the ‘Great Stink’, it is thought to be on the site of Lord and Lady Arundel’s seventeenth century garden where they displayed England’s first classical sculpture collection. The 1,400 sqm space is invisible from street level and reached by well-worn steps at the top of which a massive space opens up, offering spectacular views from the Houses of Parliament to Tate Modern.  The Artist’s Garden opened in October 2021 with Lakwena’s ‘Back in the Air: a Meditation on Higher Ground’. Growing organically and overlaying the first, the second major commission by Heywood & Condie, ‘Through the Cosmic Allotment’ explores plant human communication through landscapes installed in four greenhouses exploring aspects of our cosmic understanding of landscape. It is currently hosting Holly Hendry’s first public sculpture in London ‘Slackwater’ until September 2024.

‘The Artist’s Garden’ is supported by and realised in partnership with Westminster City Council.  With thanks to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Royal College of Art, WSP UK, and with kind permission of LUL/Transport for London. The Artist’s Garden and its collaboration with RCA/YSP will continue until the end of 2025.

Open daily from 8am with seasonal closing times at dusk, free and open to all

The Artist’s Garden, Temple Station Roof Terrace, Temple Place, London WC2R 2PH

Temple or Embankment Underground Station

Entry via stairs on Temple Place, a few minutes’ walk from the Strand, next to Somerset House.  

For more information, images or to arrange an interview please contact info@thecolab.art and visit www.thecolab.art