Julian Wild is Sculpture Leader at the Art academy.  He has exhibited at  Chatsworth House (Sotheby’s), Sculpture in the City, Canary Wharf, Modern Art Oxford, and The Saatchi Gallery.

He has also completed commissions for: The University of Oxford, Cate Blanchett, Modern Forms, Fidelity lnvestments, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Crest Nicholson, Schroders Investment Management, Jerwood Sculpture Park, The Lightbox Gallery and Canary Wharf Group. He is currently working on a new permanent commission for The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail.

He was awarded The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Arts club Trust Studio Bursary from 2009-2012. In 2005 he was a finalist in the Jerwood Sculpture Prize and won the Millfield Sculpture Prize in the same year.

Julian Wild is a fellow of The Royal Society of Sculptors and was Vice-president from 2015-2019. 

Julian Wild’s works allude to minimalist sculptures disrupted by interventions and gestures within their form. He often uses colour as an agent to exaggerate the contrast between elements within a work. He uses colour as a signifier and signal maker.

The Crush series are based on fictitious actions or events in which I-beams have appeared to have landed on bars of stainless steel. Intense colour and polishing gives the work an unreal quality, allowing it to sit in the space between finish and failure.