Bill Woodrow
Endeavour, 1994

Signed & dated ‘Bill Woodrow 1994’ on barrel
Bronze
Unique
208 x 445 x 174 cm
81 ¾ x 175 ¼ x 68 ½ in.

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Bill Woodrow

Bill Woodrow (b.1948) emerged as a pivotal figure in a new generation of British sculptors in the early 1980s, who centred on the use of found-objects and/or simple manufacturing procedures. Often using discarded or waste objects and ephemera, such as old washing machines, car parts, cutlery or scrap metal, Woodrow then cut apart and reassembled these into inventive sculptures with often illusive meanings, placing the onus of interpretation on the viewer.

In the late 1980s, Woodrow began to transition from the direct manipulation of found objects to casting works in bronze. An exceptional example of his works in bronze was the monumental sculpture made for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, Regardless of History, in 2000. He has received several honorary distinctions during his career including: representing Britain at the Biennales of Sydney in 1982, Paris in 1982 and 1985, and Sao Paulo in 1983 and 1991; he was a finalist in the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery in London in 1986; in 1988 he won the Anne Gerber Award at the Seattle Museum of Art; he was a trustee of the Tate Galleries 1996-2001; in 2002 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts.

Throughout his career Woodrow has exhibited extensively worldwide. Solo shows of his work have been hosted at Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Canada, Bloomberg Space in London, Château Musée, Dieppe, France, Wakefield, Palacio Nacional de Queluz, Lisbon, Portugal, the Tate and Tate Modern, London, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, amongst other places, with a major retrospective of his work being held at the Royal Academy of Arts at the end of 2013. Group exhibitions include Making it: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986 at the Longside Gallery, Keywords: Art, Culture & Society in 1980's Britain at Tate Liverpool, Post Pop: East Meets West at the Saatchi Gallery, London, Once Removed: Sculpture's Changing Frame of Reference at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA and Lead Astray, a show with Richard Deacon that took place at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield in 2005.

His work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal and the Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Netherlands.

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