Born in Larkhall, Scotland, Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, performance, and expanded installation. With a background in art, philosophy and somatic meditation studies, her work investigates the body as both material and metaphor, mapping its thresholds, memory, and mutability. She often collaborates with choreographers and sound artists, creating sensorial environments that question how form is held, inhabited, and undone. Her ongoing SYBL (See Your Body Later) project reflects her investigations into embodied intelligence, ecological matter, and the unseen forces that shape our presence. Wilson has art and philosophy degrees from the Royal College of Art and Universities of Glasgow and London. Her recent group exhibitions include Tate Lates (Tate Modern, 2024), Copeland Gallery (London, 2024) and the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition (Edinburgh, 2023).
Part of this expanded SYBL project, Starduster I reimagines sculptural materiality through a sensuous engagement with weight, breath, and transformation. Traditionally dense and rigid substances, marble dust, crushed flint, and porcelain, are sewn into soft muslin bodies, creating forms that are entirely moveable and self-supporting. These works act like permeable skins, fusing surface and content in an ever-shifting state of expansion and contraction, echoing the act of breath at its fullest.
Referencing both the cosmos and the gut, Starduster I considers the body's internal systems, especially digestion and the enteric nervous system, as sites of intelligence and holding. The intestinal composition suggests not just the processing of matter, but also of memory and presence. In this way, Wilson situates Starduster I as an emergent, sensate form: a sculptural body that listens, responds, and reconfigures, gesturing toward an aliveness beyond static form, toward a poetics of the somatic.