Clare Woods (born 1972) is a British artist who lives and works in

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and the Welsh borders. Some of her works are on a very large scale; one commissioned for the

Olympic Delivery Authority The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) was a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, responsible for ensuring the delivery of venues, infrastructure and legacy for the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games ...

in London is 83 metres long. Woods completed an MA in Fine Art at

Goldsmiths College Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

, London in 1999, following a BA in Fine Art at Bath College of Art in 1994.

Collections

Woods’ paintings are held in many major national and international collections including the

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, London, British Council Collection, London,

Southampton City Art Gallery The Southampton City Art Gallery is an art gallery in Southampton, southern England. It is located in the Civic Centre on Commercial Road. The gallery opened in 1939 with much of the initial funding from the gallery coming from two bequests, on ...

, National Museum Wales Collection,

Arken Museum of Modern Art ARKEN Museum of Modern Art ( da, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst) is a private non-for-profit charity, state authorised, contemporary art museum in Ishøj near Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The museum is amongst Denmark's major contemporary a ...

, Denmark, and the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, USA.

Exhibitions

Woods’ work has been the subject solo exhibitions including, * The New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK (2008) *

The Hepworth Wakefield The Hepworth Wakefield is an art museum in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, which opened on 21 May 2011. The gallery is situated on the south side of the River Calder and takes its name from artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth who was born an ...

, UK (2011) *

Harewood House Harewood House ( , ) is a country house in Harewood, West Yorkshire, England. Designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam, it was built, between 1759 and 1771, for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, a wealthy West Indian plantation a ...

, Leeds, UK (2013) * Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens (2014) * Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales (2014) * Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales (2015) * Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen (2015) *Clare Wooods, Hanging Hollow and Holes, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (2015) * Clare Woods, Reality Dimmed, Mead Gallery,

Warwick Arts Centre Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. It attracts around 300,000 visitors a year to over 3,000 individual events embracing all types of theatre and performance, contemporary and cl ...

, Coventry UK (2018) *Clare Woods, If not now, then when, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (2020)

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 Cristea Roberts Gallery, formerly Alan Cristea Gallery, is a commercial gallery in central London that was founded by Alan Cristea in 1995. David Cleaton-Roberts, Helen Waters and Kathleen Dempsey are also senior directors. Cristea Roberts Gallery ...

, London. In 2014 Woods produced a poster design, ''Cranky'', part of a series commissioned by Art on the Underground for

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References

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