Elaine Wilson was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. She studied sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art in Dundee and completed an MA at the Royal Academy Schools in London.
Wilson’s beautifully intricate collages explore received ideas about women and femininity as well as the perpetuation of romantic and stereotypic ideals. Inspired by the writings of Joan Riviere, Bracha Ettinger and Charles Baudelaire, the images of women’s faces peer from within layers of decorative stitch and lace forms.
