Bill Woodrow RA
7 November 2013 - 16 February 2014
Burlington Gardens
Saturday – Thursday 10am – 6pm
Friday 10am – 10pm
This exhibition has closed.
Friends of the RA go free
The first comprehensive survey of work by the sculptor Bill Woodrow RA.
Comprising around 50 works, the exhibition spans Woodrow’s entire career and explores the themes of his oeuvre from the early 1970s to the present day, highlighting his humour and inventiveness and underpinning his influential role in contemporary sculpture. The exhibition is held in Burlington Gardens, the Royal Academy’s new venue for contemporary art.
Bill Woodrow RA is one of the group of celebrated British sculptors born in the late 40s and early 50s, who have helped redefine public perceptions of sculpture, a group which also includes Anish Kapoor RA, Antony Gormley RA, Tony Cragg RA and Richard Deacon RA.
This exhibition spans Woodrow’s entire career, from his earliest sculpture created the year after he left St Martin’s School of Art to his most recent work, including a new work created for this exhibition.
Gallery
A key figure of New British Sculpture
The London Evening Standard
Introduction
Bill Woodrow, Penelope Curtis and Gavin Turk discuss the exhibition.
Arranged chronologically, Bill Woodrow RA explores some of his best known and critically celebrated series, and highlights his preoccupation with disassembling and bringing new life and identity to everyday objects as seen in the ‘Cut-out’ and other series.
Woodrow’s humour and inventiveness is ever-present throughout the exhibition, revealing him to be, as The Sunday Times described him, ‘so witty, so snappy, so unknowably deep’ and one of the ‘biggest achievers’ of his generation.