Carnivorous plant
oil on linen
30 x 40cm
Amy Petra Woodward studied at The Royal Academy Schools and Painting at Camberwell College of Art, UAL. Noted solo projects include BFC Fashion Arts Foundation / Royal Academy of Art, 2017; Chandelier Projects London, 2015; The Selina Cheneviere Fellowship award exhibition at the Royal Academy, 2014; Pallazzo Peckham, Venice Biennale, 2013. Recent exhibitions include the UK Fine Press Book Fair (Oxford, 2018), the European Space Agency at ESOC (Darmstadt, Germany 2018-2019) and Semenario de Cultura Mexciana (Mexico City 2020). Recent projects include partnering with Curio Collection Hilton Hotels for exhibition.
Collection, Residency, Publication: Artist in Residence: Fashion Art Foundation, British Fashion Council & Royal Academy 2016 & 2017, selected for outstanding achievement by the Royal Academy and BFC – the Fashion Art Commissions. Artist in Residence: Studio and Research, Unilever 2013 – 2014. Woodward created the Artist’s book Alquimia de los Planetas together with Philip Hughes, Carmen Boullosa and Psiche Hughes, printed by The Old School Press. Artwork purchased for collection: British Fashion Council, Unilever, V22 London, Soho House, British Library Special Collections.
For Woodward her drawings outline space. Room for pieces of colour — tones that evoke specific settings, objects, and times of day, often nightfall. These preparatory drawings, whether figurative or abstract, draw from everyday life, including the human body, plants, and natural elements such as fire, air, and water. As these drawings are transposed into paintings, new meanings emerge and compositions are approached as narratives that unfold slowly. The lines of the initial drawings are re-examined and transformed through careful overpainting in layers. A painting method that balances control, intention and spontaneity.
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Woodward explores themes of investigation and observation within her work. Her practice seeks to examines the ethical dimensions of art, considering it as a means of paying attention to and valuing the world around us.