Bill Woodrow RA (1948)

Bill Woodrow RA (b.1948)

Sweet History 2002 UNIQUE

Wood, card, plastic, gold leaf.

Exhibited
THINKING BIG: 21ST CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy, 2002

Provenance: The collection of Jeannette & Wilfred Cass, Cass Sculpture Park, Goodwood, West Sussex.

Bill Woodrow studied at Winchester School of Arts and 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. His work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2013.

His work is in public spaces worldwide and was installed on the fourth plynth in Trafalgar Square in 2000.