willa hilditch

WILLA HILDITCH (b.1995) lives and works in London. She is an alumnus of the Chelsea College of Art BA Fine Art (2017) and the Royal Drawing School postgraduate The Drawing Year (2018). With a focus on painting, drawing and sculpture, Hilditch draws inspiration from her immediate surroundings. She is interested in the overlooked ephemeral by-products of daily life: Discarded rubbish, residual marks on surfaces, and redundant cable wiring protruding from walls. In her studio, she creates crude paper maquettes referencing these observed objects, which then become the subjects of her drawn or painted still-lifes. These compositions, marked by a warped sense of space, subtly include elements like staples, pieces of tape, or nails to challenge viewers' perceptions of the ordinary. Influenced by artists such as Georgio Morandi, Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow, and Thomas Hirschhorn, Hilditch's work occupies space without weighing it down, inviting a reconsideration of the mundane through a fresh, observational lens.