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'My work investigates the nature of invisible worlds that exist beyond and between the surface of things and the continuous intertwining of the past with the future, the real with the imagined.'
Annie Woodford is a multi disciplinary artist who
seeks to transform materials into something
unexpected, mysterious and ambiguous. The making is
always preceded by a period of research, often
involving a detailed examination of elements from
the natural world or, sometimes, by time spent
immersed within a landscape, space or place.
Material investigations - executed both intuitively
and analytically - occur concurrently with these
periods of research, leading to new ways of thinking
and making.
Working across several disciplines - drawing, object making, printmaking and painting - she seeks to make the unseen, seen and the unreal, real. Woodford's pieces are like objects of otherness from invisible worlds: dreamlike, the enigmatic occupants of strange imagined landscapes, shadowy vistas or unseen places, they seem to float and oscillate between absence and presence, the past and the future, hovering silently in a place between.
Woodford studied at the Royal College of Art,
receiving a travel scholarship and graduating with
an MA in Ceramics and Glass. Since then she has
exhibited nationally and internationally, often with
an emphasis on installations and site-specific works
and her work is included in public and private
collections worldwide. Extensively travelled, she
has carried out major research projects in Iceland,
the Arctic and New Zealand, facilitated by both
public and private bursaries.
In 2008, she won the Bronze Prize in the International Ceramics Competition, which was exhibited in The Contemporary Ceramics Museum in Taiwan and her work was included in 'Breaking the Mould: New Approaches to Ceramics', which profiles ceramicists working at the cutting edge of their discipline. Woodford was an invited artist at the International Ceramic Biennale, Korea in 2009, presenting a collection of her work as part of the World Contemporary Ceramics exhibition and in 2011, a collection of her pieces was exhibited as part of Collect at the Saatchi Gallery. In 2013, she was Artist-in-Residence in Philadelphia, undertaking a research project into the nature of diatoms at the Academy of Natural Sciences and recently was a recipient of the Inches Carr Trust Bursary for Material Research and Development. Between 2012-2014 she was a trustee of Craft Scotland, advising on strategy and development. Currently, she is working on two research projects; The Language of Lichen and The Secret World of Fungi. |