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1. Parabiosis2. Haldane Rule Etchings-Beefalo 3. Haldane Rule Etchings-Cama 4. Haldane Rule Etchings-Habit 5. Haldane Rule Etchings-Liger 6.
After completing an apprenticeship in painting at the renowned Charles Cecil Studio in Florence, Italy from 2000-2004, Wilson had a successful career as portrait painter. He went on to complete his MA in Fine Art at the City and Guilds, London in 2008. Wilson’s subsequent conceptual work has been concerned with exploring organizing systems, scientific principles and genetics. Fascinated by a Victorian sense of wonder, he often borrows from the aesthetic of the era, sometimes incorporating obsolete media and technologies. His work Parabiosisis concerned with the physical remnants of intangible emotional situations and also relates to the notion of co-dependence.
Wilson’s academic training enables him to use his traditionalist skills like drawing, painting and printmaking to express his more conceptual practice. His series of five etchings explore the genetic rules that were formulated by the British-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist., J.B.S Haldane (1892-1964). In this series of etchings he has developed a series of genetic anomalies: Beefalo, Zeedonk, Liger, Habit and Cama in response to Haldane’s rule.
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