Artists - WILHELMINA BALDWIN - Biography

Born in 1965 in Evesham, Worcestershire, Baldwin embarked on a relatively late student career that took her through some of the best-known art colleges in the country.

These were St Martin 's, Camberwell and the Royal College of Art. She left the RCA an award-winning sculptor, picking up the valuable CSFB prize.

She has developed a highly individual approach to making work that starts with a strong connection to her chosen subject that is gradually lost (or let go of) as the work begins to assert itself and make its own demands. She uses a wide range of materials, pushing at the limits of what each is capable of, and forcing us to experience them freshly; out of their familiar context.

Her starting point may be a place, a story or something she has been looking at or thinking about. During the processes of making, new forms always emerge, and these may not, in the end, explicitly relate to their origins.

Only loosely connected to an image or a narrative, they speak the language of physicality; we are asked to meet them with the part of ourselves that responds instinctively to such qualities as volume, surface, fragility, texture and colour, and through those responses begin to build a relationship with the presences Baldwin has introduced into our space.

Wilhelmina Baldwin has a studio in Stockwell. She combines making work to commission, or for exhibition in a wide range of principally London venues, with work as a designer, teacher and lecturer.