“When Wilma Tabacco told me the exhibition’s title, Against the Tide, I assumed it linked to her 2023 show on encounters with Venice.  Tide as historical change; Tide as people crowding a city, as tourism displacing native Venetians; and Tide also as environmental threat, those rising waters and Venice’s sinking foundations. Yet Tide can be the changing pressures felt by an artist, especially those demands of curatorial fashion. Everything in this studio shows Wilma Tabacco is against that Tide—seeing, thinking, making for her reasons, on her terms.”

Essay Excerpt
Dr Christopher Heathcote, Art Historian & Critic, 2025