Education
Woods completed an Master of Arts in Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, London in 1999, following a Bachelor in Fine Art at Bath College of Art in 1994.
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Clare Woods
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Woods is best known for her large scale paintings, many over ten metres in length, and for a number of high profile commissions, including one for London Olympic Delivery Authority. Woods’ work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally including, The New Art Centre, Salisbury, (2008) The Hepworth Wakefield (2011), Southampton City Art Gallery, (2012), Harewood House, Leeds (2013), Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, André Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales (2014), Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, (2015), Oriel y Parc with National Museum Wales (2015). Selected Group exhibitions include, Die Yuppie Scum, Karsten Schubert, London (1996), Paintings, Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan, (2000), Beck’s Futures, London (2001), Painting as a Foreign Language, Centro Britanico Brasileiro, São Paulo (2002), New British Painting, John Hansard, Southampton (2004), Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox, United States of America (2005), John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2006), The Dark Monarch, Tate, Saint Ives (2010), Exhibitionism, Courtauld Institute Of Art, London (2011), Creates Aber Communities, Arken Museum, Denmark (2012), Detached and Timeless, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (2014), Painting, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland (2016) Clare Woods and Des Hughes, The Sleepers, Pallant House, United Kingdom (2016) 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 (2005-2007), Transport for London, Permanent Commission for Hampstead Heath Train Station London (2010-2011), 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.
