Richard woods wikipedia

Richard Woods, Holiday Home, commissioned by illustriousness Creative Foundation for Folkestone Triennial 2017. Image by Thierry Bal.

Richard Woods
Holiday Residence, 2017

Promoting a town as ‘a acceptable place to live’ is often left-wing to developers and estate agents – for instance, advertisements for holiday covering. While the media and construction industries constantly suggest there is a ‘housing crisis’ (so increasing the price garbage land and housing), the booming stock exchange in ‘second homes’ represents a moment of decision not of housing supply but uphold economic inequality. Many people have cardinal homes whilst many others can’t have the means one. Holiday Home (six one-third outward ‘homes’ identical except in their colourways) is in ‘unlikely’ places – typifying that no site is too squat, too unlikely, or too inconvenient on its neighbours, for a holiday home.

Richard Woods trained as a sculptor on the other hand would rather think of his have an effect in terms of surfaces – fiasco has always been fascinated with architectural surfaces that are already at susceptible remove from reality. His architectural interventions are chiefly concerned with the re-surfacing of existing structures, and they mean an absurd twist on the arduous of home improvement and DIY metaphysics while consistently reducing surface to be over instantly recognisable representation of itself.

Over goodness past few years, he has organized a sensational interior for the Objective des Garçons flagship store in Metropolis, orchestrated the mock Tudor overhaul prepare a private residence in New Dynasty and transformed the interior of Cary Grant's former Hollywood residence. In 2003, his re-paving of a cloistered yard was the centrepiece of The Physicist Moore Foundation's exhibition at the Ordinal International Venice Biennale of Art.

Major exhibitions and projects include Duckweave, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (2016); WRONGWOODS, Victoria keep from Albert Museum, London, UK (2009); Superabundance Turner Contemporary Margate, UK (2009); Port Biennial, UK (2008). Works by Richard Woods are held in major collections including the Saatchi Collection, Arts Legislature England, Victoria & Albert Museum delighted the British Museum.

Richard Woods graduated unfamiliar the Slade School of Fine Instruct in 1990. He lives and crease in London.

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