Neil Wood

Neil Wood is a British artist, curator and graphic designer. Since the early nineteen eighties he has lived and worked in London, Paris and Brussels.


His practise is divers and includes photography, customised print-making, poetry, typography, sculpture, sound installation and more recently, performance. He generates his art through experimentation, writing, selective appropriation and chance actions: he exploits chosen materials and objects and combines them with carefully identified narrative themes and semantic game-playing.


His work freely spans the representational to the abstract, often challenging perceptions and arriving at unexpected results through extreme changes of scale or focus.
He frequently incorporates language triggers to alter meanings and provokes the irrational and has played recorded voices as audio performances alongside his typographic works.


He recently inaugurated a 50 metre mural work entitled
'Et Toi là, Attrape Ton Étoile' for the Paris Metro at the Charles de Gaulle Étoile hub in Paris.



www.vimeo.com/neilwood

1981-82 / Middlesex University
1982-85 / University College for the Creative Arts, Canterbury

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2008 RATP, Gare Montparnasse, Paris
‘J’AVANCE, DONC JE PENSE’
Permanent Installation, 15 emerging artists & designers.

2008 Groupe La Poste & Musée de La Poste, Paris
‘QUATRE MÉTIERS, HUIT THÉMATIQUES’.
Permanent photographic installation.

2008 RATP, Assemblée Nationale, Paris
‘50 ANS DE VIE POLITIQUE’
Mural Installation.

2017 RATP, Charles de Gaulle Étoile Station, Paris
‘EH TOI LA, ATTRAPE TON ÉTOILE’
Mural Installation.

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1997 Festival Trans’Arts, Paris
Installation, print making and video.

2008 AFO Gallery, London
Collective Gallery Exhibition.

2012 Ampersand House & Gallery, Brussels
‘FOUR ARTISTS’
Stephen Papandropoulos, Sean Justice, Patricia Urfels Kronenwerth, Neil Wood.

2021 Group Show curated by Edith Doove
'TROUPE / TROEP'
Galerie ChezKit
17 rue de Chemin de Fer
93500 Pantin / Paris

2021 Group show presented by Bureau Doove
An international art project on the move
'BOLERO'
Centre André Malraux
Centre Ville de Rouen
France

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INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2004 La Fabrique W, Paris
‘MYTHOLOGY’
Photography, ink jet on paper.

2004 Galerie Vincent Colet, Brussels...