Gerald Wilde: Press Cuttings, Essays and Reviews

Gerald Wilde, in 1955

Gerald Wilde's public career began, in 1935, with a group exhibition at the Bloomsbury Gallery, London, where he exhibited his work with a group of younger artists who had also studied at the Chelsea School of Art. With much of his work having been destroyed during the blitz, his first solo exhibition occurred in 1948 at the Hanover Gallery, to be followed by other group exhibitions during the early Fifties. Finally, the important landmark arrived of a one-man retrospective exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1955, when Wilde was fifty years old. Though involved in a series of other group shows it was not until 1977 that Tim Hilton curated a one man Arts Council exhibition of his work at the Serpentine Gallery. In 1979 the October Gallery opened with a show concentrating on Wilde's most recent work (1971 - 1979) and has continued to exhibit selected exhibitions of his work at regular intervals since that time.

Critical reviewers have always found Wilde a complex yet worthwhile subject for scrutiny. Extracts from some of the many fine writers who have treated Wilde's work to analysis can be found below:

Further information about Gerald Wilde including essays by David Sylvester, William Feaver et al. and many accompanying colour plates and illustrations can be found in Gerald Wilde, 1905 -1986, published, in 1988, by Synergetic Press, Inc. in association with the October Gallery.
Gerald Wilde - A Forgotten Genius is the title of a forthcoming exhibition at the Millinery Gallery, which between 10th March and 4th April, 2004 will exhibit a fine selection of Wilde's works on paper dating from the Fifties. A fine catalogue - which is available online - accompanies the exhibition.

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