Alistair Woods
Subjected to Change
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Saturday 10th May 2pm - 4pm
Sunday 11th May 2pm - 4pm
Saturday 17th May 2pm - 4pm
Sunday 18th May 2pm - 4pm
Closing Event
Friday 23rd May 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Sunday 25th May 2pm - 4pm -
Alistair Woods (b. 1991) is one of the co-founders of Manchester based Depot Art Studios, educated in Leeds graduating from Leeds Met in 2013.
Focusing mainly on painting, producing minimal abstract works using a combination of materials and a variety of different types of paint creating separate dialogues about process and equality, these works often reference found compositions as well as interests outside of art, such as politics, British sitcoms and underground subcultures. Within the work there is an attempt to try and see the beauty in what’s overlooked by many in the environment we find ourselves in, poorly executed advertising that usually incorporates some element of appropriation or the remnants of some tape of the back of a telephone box as examples.
The aim is to represent this in a painterly form in an attempt to aesthetically draw the viewer in, whilst the references allows the work to become a lot more relatable to viewers who perhaps aren’t interested in art as the work draws inspiration directly from everyday life. -
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Depot Art Studios
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The work of Alistair Woods employs the notion of 'making the best of a bad situation' as a concept that influences his working practice. Through the careful selection, distribution and modification of materials and the incorporation of discarded everyday items, Woods produces collages and assemblages that suggest that all possible materials have an equal value to the materials that are traditionally associated with art. Woods
'Negative Collage Portraits' take a similar principle and instead apply it to analogue photography.
For BasementArtsProject Woods will be conducting a two week residency and building a new work in situ
Supported by the Leeds Art Fund & Arts Council England
The texts featured on this project originally appeared in the publication Subjected to Change, now out of print. The publication is now out-of-print but can be found in the Libraries of the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Beckett University.