Black and White Relief with Prisms was part of a joint exhibition with Anthony Hill at the ICA, London in 1963. The reflective prisms used in this relief were taken from military periscopes, extending Wise’s creative use of machine-made materials in this period. In her statement for the ICA exhibition catalogue, Wise distinguishes the effects achieved by integrating prisms into her reliefs:

“The prisms offer much more control of the light which can be coloured according to the materials used, as long as the light comes through them, and there can be a strong illusion of depth in the perspective which makes an interesting counterbalance to the often rather low relief of the work itself.”