Woodrow & Deacon 
Works available
Cardigan Island
2003
Wood and lead, with small glass detail
127 × 112 × 35 cm / 4ft2 × 3ft8 × 1ft1 3/4 ins
Bait Island
2003
Lead, wood and metal wire
114 × 96 × 117 cm / 3ft9 × 3ft1 3/4 × 3ft10 ins
Black Isle
2003
Lead, wood and glass
155 × 41 × 67 cm / 5ft1 × 1ft4 × 2ft2 1/2 ins
Isle of Man I
2003
Wood and lead
122 × 163 × 75 cm / 4ft x 5ft4 × 2ft5 1/2 ins
Isle of Man III
2003
Wood and lead
118 × 130 × 75 cm / 3ft10 1/2 × 4ft3 1/4 × 2ft5 1/2 ins
Holy Island
2004
Painted steel, lead, wood
Unique
336 × 200 × 110 cm / 11ft x 6ft6 3/4 × 3ft7 5/16 ins
Biography
Lead Astray: Shared Sculptures
Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon have been making shared sculpture together since the early '90s. In 1993 they collaborated on the successful exhibition Only the Lonely, at the Chisenhale Gallery, London. The exhibition toured to Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth and Sabine Wachters Fine Arts in Brussels. In 1999 ten small bronze sculptures were shown in the exhibition Monuments at FIAC in Paris. For their exhibition Lead Astray, at Roche Court, the artists worked in a completely new medium for them both: lead.
Woodrow and Deacon combine lead with found objects sourced from woodlands, the grounds of Roche Court and their studios. These objets trouvés act as catalysts or points of inspiration for the final work. The historical context of lead as a medieval medium is used to connect the finished sculpture both literally and metaphorically: pieces of wood are fused with lead using medieval techniques, and much of imagery dates back to the Middle Ages.
A beautifully-made medieval wall, reminiscent of stocks in a town square; a skull; a cage of eels; a landscape of silhouetted figures, tools at hand, standing on top of a piece of medieval oak. The images are powerful, beautiful, fragile and seductive, and yet also macabre and disturbing. The craftsmanship is palpable, as is the enjoyment that the artists have had in the making. The exhibition has toured to Lisbon, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Plymouth Art Gallery. Lead Astray opens at the Château Musée de Dieppe in April 2007. The tour will finish at the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney in autumn 2007. A catalogue in English and French is available.