RESEARCH
JOHN WOOD
John Wood and Paul Harrison have worked together since 1993 producing video works for single screen and installation. The work is informed by a wide range of interests including; sculpture, performance, drawing, and architecture.
The activity that Wood and Harrison have engaged with over the past decade is to take some of the forms and attributes of what we think of as concept based video art and develop them through works that explore everyday objects or actions with their normal function altered, thwarted, or coming to a surprising conclusion. For example in ‘Notebook’ (2004) they look playfully at how everyday objects can be re-invented and therefore re-examined and how within sterile environments (the office, the factory, the gallery) elements of play exist - a world in which the tabletop on which the actions occur becomes everything from an office desk to a landscape.
Night and Day
Other works directly address painting and drawing (‘66.86m’) or investigate the relationship between the human figure and architecture, each short video having the completeness of prescribed and inevitable programmed action but often with humorous effect.
Solo Exhibitions
2008
The Lowry, Manchester
2007
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Selected Works, Ffoto Gallery, Cardiff, Wales
5 Rooms, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Selected Works, Villa du parc, France
Another Pair, Beckett Centenary, Reading
2005
Selected Works, Space Gallery, Bratislava
Notebook, MIMA, Middlesbrough
The Only Other Point, f a projects, London
Selected group exhibitions
2007
Breaking Step, Salon, Belgrade
Echo Room, Alcala 31, Madrid
Les Jeux Sont Faits, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
MIMA Collection, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
I Am Making Art, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
El cuerpo (con)sentido, Saragossa, Spain
2006
Le Mouvement des Images, Centre Pompidou, Paris
You’ll Never Know, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition
Smart Art, Kunsthalle Osnabruck, Germany
Still, Villa du parc, France
What Makes You and I Different, Tramway, Glasgow
Collections
Arts Council Collection
British Council Collection
Centre Pompidou
Government Art Collection
MIMA, Middlesbrough
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate, London
Walsall Art Gallery
Monographs
124 Minutes
224 pages full colour published by Ffotogallery, Cardiff
2006, ISBN-10: 1 872771 64 5
In Profile: John Wood and Paul Harrison
DVD published by Picture This, Bristol 2005,
ISBN: 0-95398772-6-4 l