Collection: 1960s – 70s

The 1970s witnessed Woodrow’s often playful interrogation of the relationships between images and objects. Found objects were suspended between states and settings — captured in black and white photographic images in the landscape and installed as objects beside such images in the gallery. Illusory tricks of the eye were accompanied by gravity defying acts, as we find floating sticks and ropes caught on camera. Objects were also deployed as decoys and this conceptual mistrustfulness of material objects and their images soon generated their deconstruction, with Woodrow taking them to bits and lining up their dismantled components on the floor. At other times, he encased objects such as hairdryers and vacuum cleaners in plaster and concrete. Then, like a carver-palaeontologist, he chipped away at the blocks revealing the objects underneath. 

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There follows a small selection of work made between 1965 and 1979. For the complete archive, navigate to All Artworks through the main menu, or click here.