“It starts with a desire to do something,” says the sculptor Alison Wilding, who was born in 1948 in Blackburn, Lancashire, a former mill town. By the 1980s, she had come to prominence among a group of sculptors that included Antony Gormley. Wilding frequently uses materials that have been salvaged following their prior use—bronze, alabaster, wood, rubber, paper, copper, string, sand. She has also been the Eranda Drawings Professor at the Royal Academy of Arts since 2018. Wilding’s 50-year career is now the subject of an exhibition at Alison Jacques. It emphasizes her work with reclaimed objects, along with her drawings and sketches. —Zack Hauptman