Gregory Warren Wilson

Sculpture

Gregory Warren Wilson’s brilliantly colourful and innovative work in glass plays with the translucent nature of the material. Each piece is conceived on multiple layers – sometimes as many as six – and these layers allow light to interact with the glass spatially, penetrating the depths within each frame. The designs he makes sparkle and scintillate, and they appear to move as you look at them.

Warren Wilson’s work is, in part, sculptural. Each piece can only exist in three dimensions, and the glass interacts with the play of light spatially. His work invites the eye to exult in pure colour, and also to investigate the mysterious depths of the space that the designs inhabit within their bespoke frames.

Having lived for many years in Italy and Australia, light is crucial to his work as an artist. The tesserae he uses are hand-cut in Murano, and the irregularity of each unique piece enlivens the surface of his work, refracting light in ways that are eye-catching and unpredictable. Each of his designs is made with great precision so that the individual tesserae reflect and refract light in an extraordinary variety of ways.

Warren Wilson is a prize-winning poet. He has published five collections and was awarded an Arts Council Grant in 2008. A number of his glass designs take as their starting point a fragment of poetry. Over time, his visual response develops into a ‘correlative’, resulting in a glasswork that exists in its own right, while alluding, albeit obliquely, to the original literary source.

Gregory Warren Wilson is a visual artist, prize-winning poet and published author. His career began by training at the Royal Ballet School; he danced at Covent Garden, then studied violin and composition at the Royal College of Music. As a violinist, he was a member of the Razumovsky String Quartet, the London Mozart Players and the Ballet Rambert. He has also worked with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Opera House in Florence. His solo exhibition of abstract designs, Paper Mosaics, has been shown in London, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Warren Wilson's collection of poetry, The Mercury Fountain (Enitharmon, 2008) was awarded an Arts Council Grant. His first work in fiction, Twenty-Five Fables, was published in September 2021. He has tutored art and poetry at the National Gallery, Tate Britain and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Gregory’s innovative work in glass plays with the translucent nature of coloured glass. His work is, in part, sculptural, and is conceived in multiple layers, sometimes as many as six, so that his designs allow light to interact with the exquisite colour and luxurious texture of the glass. In his mosaic work, each tessera is hand-cut in Murano with great precision, so that individual pieces reflect and refract light in an extraordinary variety of ways; sparkling, scintillating, and shimmering as you move around the work. A number of his glass designs take as their starting point a fragment of poetry, resulting in a glasswork that exists in its own right while alluding to the original literary source. Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 Collect, Joanna Bird Contemporary Collections, London 2020 Joie de Vivre, Joanna Bird Contemporary Collections, London 2020 Autoritratto, Joanna Bird Contemporary Collections, London Solo Exhibitions 2012 Something Out of Nothing, The Leathermarket, London 1994 Cutting Corners, Paperpoint, Covent Garden, London 1989 Paper Mosaics, Narek Galleries, Canberra, Australia 1988 Paper Mosaics, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, Australia Designs in Paper, Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Colourcode, St James’s Piccadilly, London 1987 Colourswatch, The Fallen Angel, London 1986 Paper Mosaics, Footstool Gallery, St Joan’s Smith Square, London 1985 Visible Rhythm, Wigmore Hall, London 1984 Recent Work, The Dome, Cheltenham Festival Publications Twenty Five Fables, published by Raphael Press, 2021 Raking Light, published by Raphael Press, 2014 Somethings Out of Nothing, published by Raphael Press, 2012 The Mercury Fountain, published by Enitharmon Press, 2008 Jeopardy, published by Enitharmon Press, 2003 Hanging Windchimes in a Vacuum, published by Tears in the Fence, 1997 Preserving Lemons, published by Staple First Editions, 1996 Awards 2008 Arts Council Grant Diplomas Associate of the Royal College of Music (Performance) Honours: ARCM Associate of the Royal College of Music (Teaching): ARCM Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (Teaching): LRAM