The Tower, Patinated bronze, 42H X 18D X 18W CM, 2015

I just heard I’ve been Shortlisted for The Picton Art Prize whilst In Venice looking at the Biennale

Below are images of the Newspaper Rockets I’ve been creating installed throughout Venice.

“The Sun Newspaper” Rocket, Alex J Wood at Palazzo Mora

‘The First Rocket’, Brass, lead and copper, 2015, at The British Pavilion, Venice.

‘La Repubblica’ Rocket, installed in Calle Widmann, Venice, August 2015

“Daily Mail” Rocket by Alex J Wood at ‘Highway to Hell’ at Palazzo Michiel

“New York Post” Rocket, The Russian Pavilion, Venice

‘The Sun’ Rocket, by Alex J Wood at San Giuseppe Di Castello, Giardini, Venice

“The Daily Sketch” Rocket, Highway to Hell, Palazzo Michiel

Old Peculiar 
Lead, brass, plaster, copper, bronze powder, with patination. 2015

Moon #4
Photograph
2015

“The Plume”, Patinated verdigris bronze, 37W X 24H X 25D CM, 2015, Private collection. &
“Antares”, Patinated bronze, 11.5W X 51H X 11.5D CM, 2015.

The Glidemobile, brass and plastic, 2015 . This work was shortlisted for The Henry Moore Plinth Prize.

The Glidemobile, Bras and Plastic, 2015

‘ANTARES’
Patinated bronze
11.5W X 51H X 11.5D CM
2015

Antares
Patinated bronze
11.5W X 51H X 11.5D CM, 2015

Antares
Patinated bronze
11.5W X 51H X 11.5D CM, 2015

“The Plume”
Patinated verdigris bronze
37W X 24H X 25D CM
2015, Private collection.

The Plume

Detail of “The Plume”

The Plume

Home Bodies Exhibition

Homebodies

Artists Paul Coombs, Bex Massey and Alex Wood come together in Necole Schmitz’s first curatorial project, Home Bodies.  The exhibition reflects on the impact domestic spaces have on memory, the way one exists in these spaces as well as the impact future events have on the importance placed on these recollections.  As Freud states in The Uncanny:

Our childhood memories show us our earliest years not as they were but as they appeared at the later periods when the memories were aroused…And a number of motives, with no concern for historical accuracy, had a part in forming them, as well as in the selection of the memories themselves. (p. 322)

The artists will take this presupposition as a starting point to create works specific to the iconic Balfron Tower, examining the truth of Freud’s conjecture by contemplating how memories are formed and whether these personal mythologies and stories are underpinned by images of the domestic spaces in which they occurred.  The artists will also take into consideration Balfron’s history as part of the high rise solution to the post-war housing crisis in light of its recent transformation from a private to a public cultural space.

‘ET Phone Home’
Bronze and silvered card
2014
Private collection USA

Created whilst Artist in Residence at Camberwell College of Arts

Wax and gilded silver rocket
110H X 45W X 45D CM

Chinese Views, is a limited edition artist book published in 2015 with hand drawn illustrations.

Graf Zeppelin in The Forbidden City

Shanghai

Tiananmen Square with ISS coming into viewTiananmen Square

Shanghai view from The Bund – And the new tower emerging…

Touch Down

Out of Control

R101: MAIDEN FLIGHT

Featuring Paper Zeppelin, Bronze Mooring mast and Helium balloons