Bill Woodrow RA (b. 1948)
Bill Woodrow studied at Winchester School of Arts from 1967 to 1968 and at St. Martin’s School of Art, London from 1968 to 1971 before spending one year at Chelsea School of Art, London from 1971 to 1972. His first solo exhibition was at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1972. In the early 1980s he represented Britain at Biennales in Sydney (1982), Paris (1982, 1985) and Sâo Paulo (1983). In 1986 he was a finalist in the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery, London.
Woodrow’s work is characterised by his use of domestic and urban objects to make sculptures in which the original identity of his materials is still evident. Since the late 1980s he has expanded his range of materials to include welded steel and cast bronze.
Most recently, his work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2013
Profile
Born: 1948 in Henley- on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 28 May 2002
Gender: Male
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Preferred media: Sculpture
Works by Bill Woodrow in the RA Collection
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Bill Woodrow RA - Selected CV
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Recent Solo Exhibitions
2013-14 Royal Academy of Arts, London
2012 Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium
Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich, Switzerland
2011 Waddington Galleries, London
2007 Jesus College, Cambridge
The Great Hall, Winchester
2004 New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire
2002 Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2001 South London Gallery, London/Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
2000 Monographic room, Tate Modern, London
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Selected Collections
Arts Council of England
British Council
British Library, London
British Museum, London
Imperial War Museum, London
Government Art Collection
Tate Gallery, London
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Musée d‘Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France
Musée d‘Art et d‘Histoire, Chambery, France
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Netherlands
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
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Selected Publications
Bill Woodrow: Sculpture 1980-86, Lynne Cooke, Fruitmarket Gallery, 1986
Bill Woodrow: Beaver, Bomb and Fossil, David Elliot, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1983
Bill Woodrow: About This Axis: Drawings 1990-1995, Mark Leahy, Camden Arts Centre, 1995
In the Awe of the Pawnbroker: Bill Woodrow, John Roberts, Oriel Board Books, 1995
Bill Woodrow: Fools Gold, John Roberts, Tate Publishing, 1996
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Art Sales at the RA
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Kestrel
Lying dead? Or perched on a branch? Bill Woodrow RA reproduces the curious and poetic qualities of his three-dimensional sculptures in this tender etching.
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North Shore Beat Loch Maree
Bold contrast and line energise this linoprint by Bill Woodrow RA. It was created to support the Wester Ross Fisheries Trust, which works to conserve and develop Scotland’s remote salmon and trout lochs. These prints are available to buy through Art Sales at the RA.
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