Clare Woods

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Clare Woods RA
Born1972 (age 5152)
Southampton, UK
Education
Website www.clare-woods.com

Clare Woods RA is a British painter who lives and works in Hereford in the Welsh borders in the UK. [1] Originally trained as a sculptor, Woods career as a painter spans 30 years. Painting initially with gloss paint, the artist now works predominantly with oil based paint on aluminium, and creates smaller works on paper. Woods is well known for her large scale abstracts landscapes, more recently exploring themes with reference to historical art practice, including flowers in the tradition of memento mori, and increasingly figurative subjects, including her first self-portrait.

Woods completed an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London in 1999, following a BA in Fine Art at Bath College of Art in 1994. [2]

Collections

Woods’ paintings are held in many major national and international collections including the Arts Council Collection, London, [3] British Council Collection, London, [4] Southampton City Art Gallery, [5] Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales Collection, [6] Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, [7] and the Albright-Knox Art Museum, Buffalo, US, [8] also CCA Andratx, Mallorca in Spain, Serlachius Collection, Finland, University of Warwick, Mead Gallery, Towner Eastbourne and Tullie House in Carlisle.

Clare Woods Final Gesture, 2022, oil on aluminium, 150 x 200 cm Final Gesture.jpg
Clare Woods Final Gesture, 2022, oil on aluminium, 150 x 200 cm

Exhibitions

Clare Woods, Lou, 2023, Oil on aluminium, 80 x 60 cm Clare Woods, Lou, 2023.jpg
Clare Woods, Lou, 2023, Oil on aluminium, 80 x 60 cm

Woods’ work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including,

Commissions

Woods received a major commission from Contemporary Art Society/ Olympic Delivery Authority to create two permanent pieces of work, Carpenter's Curve and Brick Field, for the Olympic Park, London in 2012. [17]

Other major commissions include, Future City/Make Architects commission for a building, London (2005–07), Transport for London, Permanent Commission for Hampstead Heath Train Station London (2010–11), [18] Worcester University/ Worcester County Council, Large Scale painting for the new Hive building (2012) Art on the Underground, River Services commission two new paintings for a poster commission (2014), Large Scale Painting Commission, VIA University College, Denmark (2015) and wallpaper commission for the UCLH NHS Trust (2019). Woods most recent commission was a site-specific work title River Bend in Dallas USA (2019).

Woods also works in print and has had print commissions from Habitat, Counter Editions, Sidney Nolan Trust / The Hepworth Wakefield, Edition Copenhagen, Harewood House and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London. In 2014 Woods produced a poster design, Cranky, part of a series commissioned by Art on the Underground for London River Services. [18]

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