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Clare Woods (born 1972) is a British artist who lives and works in London and the Welsh borders. Some of her works are on a very large scale; one commissioned for the Olympic Delivery Authority in London is 83 metres long.[2]

Clare Woods
Born	1972 Southampton[1]
Nationality	British
Education	Bath College of Art Goldsmiths College
Website	www.clare-woods.com

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.[3]

Collections

Woods’ paintings are held in many major national and international collections including the Arts Council Collection, London,[4] British Council Collection, London,[5] Southampton City Art Gallery,[6] National Museum Wales Collection,[7] Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark,[8] and the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, USA.[9]

Exhibitions

Woods’ work has been the subject solo exhibitions including,

• The New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK (2008)[10]
• The Hepworth Wakefield, UK (2011)[3][11]
• Harewood House, Leeds, UK (2013)[12][13]
• Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens (2014)[14]
• Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales (2014)[15][16]
• Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales (2015)[17]
• Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen (2015)[18]
• Clare Wooods, Hanging Hollow and Holes, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (2015)[19]
• Clare Woods, Reality Dimmed, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry UK (2018)[20][21]
• Clare Woods, If not now, then when, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (2020)[22]

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.[2]

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),[23] 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. In 2014 Woods produced a poster design, Cranky, part of a series commissioned by Art on the Underground for London River Services.[23]

References

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