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Eleanor Wood was born and grew up in London. For many years she was based in Norfolk, in the east of England, surrounded by arable fields, huge skies, and the vast open beaches that edge the North Sea, where she developed a body of post-minimalist work referencing aspects of the natural environment. In 2002, she moved to central California, where the more intense light had a marked impact, subsequently returning to East Anglia in 2017. The majority of her work explores the interaction of watercolour with a particular paper, but she has also made drawings on stretched linen (2007–09), and on the inside covers of early twentieth-century books (2020).
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Eleanor studied at Winchester School of Art and Chelsea School of Art, where she graduated, respectively, with a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Painting. Her work has been shown in in the UK at the Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (1987 and 2022), the Jerwood Gallery, London (2017), East Gallery Norwich (2018), the Icon Gallery, Birmingham (1988), Camden Arts Centre, London (1987) and the Walker Gallery, Liverpool (1980). Internationally, she has exhibited in the US (2006–23), Canada (2021), Australia (1998), Russia (1992) and the Netherlands (1990).
Her work can be found in public collections in the UK and US, including Arts Council England, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, UCSF Davis Medical Center, CA, and the Monterey Collections, CA.
She received the Winsor and Newton Award (London Group Exhibition) in 2015, and the Holt Art Prize (Sainsbury Centre) in 2020.
In 2021, she was commissioned to make work for No Frost at Night, an exhibition organised by the Arts Council Young Curators Programme to celebrate an East Anglian nurserywoman’s weather diaries, which recorded 50 years of local temperatures.
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Eleanor Wood was born and grew up in London. For many years she was based in Norfolk, in the east of England, surrounded by arable fields, huge skies, and the vast open beaches that edge the North Sea, where she developed a body of post-minimalist work referencing aspects of the natural environment. In 2002, she moved to central California, where the more intense light had a marked impact, subsequently returning to East Anglia in 2017. The majority of her work explores the interaction of watercolour with a particular paper, but she has also made drawings on stretched linen (2007–09), and on the inside covers of early twentieth-century books (2020).
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Eleanor studied at Winchester School of Art and Chelsea School of Art, where she graduated, respectively, with a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Painting. Her work has been shown in in the UK at the Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (1987 and 2022), the Jerwood Gallery, London (2017), East Gallery Norwich (2018), the Icon Gallery, Birmingham (1988), Camden Arts Centre, London (1987) and the Walker Gallery, Liverpool (1980). Internationally, she has exhibited in the US (2006–23), Canada (2021), Australia (1998), Russia (1992) and the Netherlands (1990).
Her work can be found in public collections in the UK and US, including Arts Council England, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, UCSF Davis Medical Center, CA, and the Monterey Collections, CA.
She received the Winsor and Newton Award (London Group Exhibition) in 2015, and the Holt Art Prize (Sainsbury Centre) in 2020.
In 2021, she was commissioned to make work for No Frost at Night, an exhibition organised by the Arts Council Young Curators Programme to celebrate an East Anglian nurserywoman’s weather diaries, which recorded 50 years of local temperatures.
© Eleanor Wood 2023
© Eleanor Wood 2023