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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Clare Woods

Role
  
Artist


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Born
  
1972
Southampton

Education
  
Bath College of ArtGoldsmith’s College

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Clare Woods (born 1972) is a British artist who lives and works in London and the Welsh borders. Woods is best known for her large scale paintings, many over ten metres in length, and for a number of high-profile commissions, including one for London Olympic Delivery Authority.

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Woods completed an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, London in 1999, following a BA in Fine Art at Bath College of Art in 1994.

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Shortlisted for Cymru yn Fenis Wales in Venice 2017 La Biennale di Venezia 57th International Art Exhibition

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Collections

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Woods’ paintings are held in many major national and international collections including the Arts Council Collection, London, British Council Collection, London, Government Art Collection, London, Southampton City Art Gallery, National Museum Wales Collection, Glynn Vivian Collection, Wales, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, British Airways Collection, London, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, USA.

Exhibitions

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Woods’ work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally including,

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  • The New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK (2008)
  • The Hepworth Wakefield, UK (2011)
  • Southampton City Art Gallery, UK (2012)
  • Harewood House, Leeds, UK (2013)
  • Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens (2014)
  • André Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (2014)
  • Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales (2014)
  • Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales (2015)
  • Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, (2015)
  • Mascalls Gallery, Kent, UK (2015)
  • Oriel y Parc, with National Museum Wales, Wales (2015)
  • Clare Woods, Clean Heart, Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset, UK (2016)
  • Clare Woods, Victim of Geography, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland (2017)

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    Selected Group exhibitions include,

  • Die Yuppie Scum, Karsten Schubert, London, UK (1996)
  • Paintings, Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan, (2000)
  • Beck’s Futures, London, UK (2001)
  • Painting as a Foreign Language, Centro Britanico Brasileiro, São Paulo (2002)
  • New British Painting, John Hansard, Southampton, UK (2004)
  • Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox, USA (2005)
  • John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2006)
  • The Dark Monarch, Tate, St. Ives, UK (2010)
  • Exhibitionism, Courtauld Institute Of Art, London, UK (2011)
  • Creates Aber Communities, Arken Museum, Denmark (2012)
  • Detached and Timeless, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK (2014)
  • Natural States - Ingo Meller, Daniel Sturgis & Clare Woods, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland (2016)
  • The Sleepers, Clare Woods and Des Hughes, Pallant House, UK (2016)

    • 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.

    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), 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).

    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 Alan Cristea Gallery, London.

    References

    Clare Woods Wikipedia
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