Collection: 1980s

Woodrow’s object investigations continued into the 1980s. Found domestic appliances were sliced and spiked, their external surfaces and internal workings cut away and revealed. Old bicycles were unravelled and the skins of empty tin cans (their tops already taken off with a tin opener) were cut away to create new objects from their volumes. Woodrow’s cut-out sculptures, which were made using hand shears to cut into the metal, captured people’s imaginations. They were skilfully created as well as playful, transforming discarded objects into imaginative juxtapositions of ‘host’ and ‘offspring’ pairings. New form and content relations were intimated and new object poetries evoked.

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There follows a small selection of work made between 1980 and 1989. For the complete archive, navigate to All Artworks through the main menu, or click here.