Molly Wickett (she/her) is an artist who often creates large-scale works formed of small-scale, delicate sculptural pieces. She works predominantly in wood, metal and organic materials in a research-based practice that seeks to understand the relationship between the individual and their place in a wider system. Through a disabled and queer lens, natural life cycles that run parallel to our own are disrupted and altered to offer a landscape of regrowth and hope. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Edinburgh College of Art in 2023.
For Hidden Door’s 2025 Festival Wicket presents Other Light Sources; a large-scale sculptural installation of smaller, detailed cast forms. This project comprises a series of large, sculptural, torched wooden forms with glowing cast fungi around black ‘puddles’ mimicking oil spills. Hanging fabric with punctured holes represent geological point data mapped with illuminated light points.
“This landscape explores the apocalypse and dereliction of sites as endings of hope, not of finality. The industrial setting connects this project to a point of ecological collapse, mapping and reimagining the space. The sculptures run on crip time, where time becomes fluid. They draw on geologic time in mapping point data on the fabric. These ideas are reflective of research into utopia as a strand of queer theory, as a lens through which hope is explorative but can also critique society.”
Find out more at mollywickett.co.uk or instagram.com/mollywickettart
