Slipstream Portfolio

by Richard Wilson RA

Slipstream by Richard Wilson RA is a portfolio of nine drawings made between 2011-2014 to accompany the artist’s 70-metre sculpture of the same name at Heathrow Terminal 2. This set of nine A3 photopolymer prints published by Sketched, exhibit the work together for the first time.

Spanning four columns of Heathrow Terminal 2, Slipstream was modelled on a small aeroplane flown by the triple world champion Red Bull air racer Paul Bonhomme. The drawings bear witness to the challenge of conveying the stunt plane’s twisting velocity.

“You can almost feel the gouache and tippex and graphite in the prints – lovely.”- Richard Wilson

Produced in a limited edition of 100, each portfolio is made to order and includes a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity.

£3,600.00

Artwork details

Material Paper
Dimensions 42 x 29.7cm

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Product story

To create this monumental public work, Wilson ended up going back to his old model-making days as a child. “We all see our world from the eyes outward,” the artist reflected, “but what a lot of people don’t see is what’s inside our brain as thought. Drawing or models are all about that – How to take what’s behind the eyes and how to get that out, with a pencil, or a heated model aeroplane pushed into butter?”

By publishing this new collection of limited-edition prints of ‘Slipstream’ drawings, Sketched aims to explore that very same question. “It’s lovely to see the drawings as a set,” Wilson says, “as they’ve never been shown collectively. You can almost feel the gouache and tippex and graphite in the prints – lovely. Something taking a movement through space, enhanced by a series of arrows in play to give you a sense of direction. It’s a bit like going back to comic books, with arrows as movement or little marks that indicate a sense of direction with an object going through space.”

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About Richard Wilson RA

Richard Wilson RA was born in London in 1953. The son of an artist and an art teacher, Wilson inherited a talent for working with his hands and eventually went on to study at Hornsey College of Art in 1971 where he was able to find freedom of expression through sculpture.Wilson has been twice nominated for the Turner Prize and was... Go to artist page