Clare Woods
Works available
Blind Jack
2008
Enamel and oil on aluminium
183 × 127 cm / 6ft x 4ft2 ins
Grim's Ditch
2007
Enamel and oil on aluminium
183 × 127cm / 6ft x 4ft2ins
Study II for Dancing Mania
2008
Enamel and oil on aluminium
183 × 127 cm / 6ft x 4ft 2 ins
Untitled 1
2010
Watercolour on paper
77 × 58 cm / 30 × 22 3/4 ins
Untitled 2
2010
Watercolour on paper
77 × 58 cm / 30 × 22 3/4 ins
Untitled
2009
Oil on wood
12 × 9 cm / 4 3/4 × 3 1/2 ins
Untitled
2009
Oil on wood
9 × 12 cm / 3 1/2 × 4 3/4 ins
Biography
(1972 -)
Clare Woods' paintings are derived from her photographs of undergrowth and vegetation, which are taken at night, often in desolate, contested or overlooked locations such as areas of scrub or deep woodland. Painstakingly transcribed using layers of enamel paint on aluminium, the resulting images are often ambiguous and disturbing, claustrophobic in their detail, and psychologically-charged.
Clare Woods was born in 1972 and graduated from Goldsmith's College in 1999. She has exhibited in the UK, Europe and America and was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures prize in 2001. She is represented in the UK by Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.