Dendrophiles

Jane and Louise Wilson have been working as an artist duo in collaboration for over three decades since 1989, Their early works reflected on abandoned buildings to reveal a form of psychic architecture often imbued with the presence and ideology of the original occupants. Through carefully choreographed film installations, sound works and photography they have explored some of Europe’s least accessible sites including a former Stasi Prison in former East Berlin, the British Houses of Parliament and the huge Star City complex in Moscow, a key site of the Russian Space Program. In 1996 they were awarded a DAAD artists scholarship in Berlin and Hanover. In 1999 they were nominated for The Turner Prize for their multi-screen installation Gamma 1999. The Wilson sisters have had held exhibitions in the UK and internationally in international group shows, including the Carnegie International (1999), Solo exhibitions have included Suspending Time (2010) at CAM Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Tempo Suspenso, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela; The Toxic Camera (2015) at Whitworth Art Gallery, Sealander (2017) at Focus Gallery, The John Paul Getty Museum; ‘The Toxic Camera’ at Maureen Paley, (2022) Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy (2018 -2019), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ‘Dreamtime TM’ Jane and Louise Wilson, UCI, Irvine, California, 2023, “OUT OF THE BOX”, Schaulager, 2023 Laurenz Foundation, Switzerland, Jane and Louise Wilson ‘Altogether’ 303 Gallery, New York 2025. Jane and Louise are appointed as joint Professors of Fine Art at Newcastle University and Royal Academicians in 2018.