Willa Hilditch
b. Hereford & based in London, UK
wilhelmina_h@hotmail.co.uk
Willa Hilditch (b.1995) lives and works in London. She works between mediums and primarily from observation. In Willa's work she considers the ephemeral by-products of our routines as observed on walks through London. Discarded rubbish, residual marks left on surfaces and redundant cable wiring protruding from walls have all served as reference points in her work. Once in the studio she makes crude paper maquettes referencing the objects that she has seen. Arrangements of these paper forms and cut-outs are the subject for her drawn or painted still life. Her work has a warped sense of space with the only tell-tale signifier of scale being a staple, piece of tape or nail.
Education
Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School (2017-2018)
BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, (2014-2017)
Selected exhibitions
2025
Recurrence, ASC Gallery, London, 6th- 17th March
2024
Planetary Scale, Filet, London, 20th- 30th June
ABG Emerging, Alice Black Gallery, London, 6- 26th June
Works on paper 6, Blue shop gallery, London, 4th May- September
Adjacents, Greenfield Project space, London, 13th- 23rd March
2022
Drawing wow 3, Minus Offspace, Vienna, 7th September - 1st October 2022
Carpeted Stares, AMP Gallery, London, 16th - 19th June
2021
Dire & Desire, Khalstead, 30th October - 21st November
Bernston Bhattacharjee X Women’s aid auction, 8th-18th March
2020
Exceptional 2019, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, November 7th-February 2020
2019
A High Hang(Paint talk), Eccleston Project Space, 4th-7th December
07/05/2019, London Arts Board, 23rd August- 23rd September 2019
‘Carton’ publication launch event, Drawing Rooms, London, 5th April
Flatpack, San Mei Gallery, 6th-11th March (two person show)
2018
The Best of the Drawing Year 2018, Christie’s, 9th-15th November 2018
Reunion Exhibition, Assembly Point se15, 22nd - 23rd August
Materials PART II, Cob Gallery, London, 21th June - 28th July
FBA Futures 2018, Mall Galleries, 9th January- 20th January
Residencies
Dumfries house residency, February 2024
Excavating Bukhara archeological dig, Uzbekistan, June 2022
Worlding, London, April- June 2021 (https://www.worlding.org.uk/watch/willa-hilditch-interview/ and https://www.worlding.org.uk/guests/willa-hildtich/)
SVA Gallery young artists programme, Stroud -collaborative drawing residency with Milo Kester and Dougal Kirkland, 8th-22nd March 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rgCeb4Ek1g)
Collections
The Royal Collection, UK
Private Collections
Wearable drawings here