Artists vie for Seacole sculpture Dec 18, 2008
The artists are Maurice Blik, Georgia Boyd Russell, Martin Jennings, Susan Stockwell, Bill Woodrow, Kenness George Kelly, Joy Gregory and Etienne Milner. The Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal, which announced the shortlist, was set up to create a permanent reminder of the 19th century nurse. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The Fourth Plinth: could you be art? Jun 24, 2008
Straightforward and excessively literal, I fear that Nelson s Ship in a Bottle will fail to make much of a mark, just as past works by Bill Woodrow and Marc Quinn that also occupied the Fourth Plinth were defeated by their setting. Of the six artists shortlisted for these two new commissions, I have a soft spot for Anish Kapoor, and would much rather see the five concave mirrors of his Sky Plinth than Shonibare s bottled ship. (Telegraph.co.uk)
A man of few words Feb 6, 2008
He admires Tracey Emin and Bill Woodrow; are there artists working in other mediums with whom he feels on the same wavelength. "The Coen brothers are really great. No Country for Old Men was particularly good. All of their movies are. David Lynch, I have to say, has really got some good things going. Mulholland Drive - that was good! And Inland Empire ... " His voice is excited. (Guardian Unlimited)
Letter: Dismay at British Council art cuts Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Abrahams, Shazeela Alim, Sam Bakkabulindi, Dr Wendy Baron OBE, Emmanuel Basaza, Lewis Biggs Director, Liverpool Biennial, Sir Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, OBE, Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Louisa Buck The Art Newspaper, Anthony Bukenya, David Bwambale, Richard Calvocoressi Director, Henry Moore Foundation, Jeffrey Camp RA, Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE, Eva Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Jane Checkland, Emma... (Guardian Unlimited)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
Sculptor Bill Woodrow is not convinced: "If it's about multidisciplinary work I squirm a little, because that usually means a dilution of things." He was part of the successful British Council sculpture exhibition in Tehran three years ago. "It was an incredible event which had a two-way benefit and it would never have happened without the British Council," he said. (Guardian Unlimited)
The bronze sorcerer Jan 12, 2008
When Mu;oz's work has been compared to other postwar art, either by himself or by critics, the frame of reference has tended to be sculpture, whether European Arte Povera or younger practitioners such as Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon, both of whom he met in London. Yet Mu;oz studied graphic art, and his subsequent work strongly suggests that when he lived here, the painter Francis Bacon may have been the living artist who meant most to him. (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituary: Diane Middlebrook Dec 18, 2007
She and Carl donated two splendid sculptures to the British Library, by Bill Woodrow and David Nash. She and Elaine Showalter gave a famous 4th of July party every summer - a who's who of all Anglo-American life, and both genders, this time. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
'It is like a jewel' Nov 8, 2007
"Regardless of History, Bill Woodrow: March 2000A man's head crushed by a giant book, bound to the plinth by tree roots. "[It] makes reference to the neverending relationship between civilisation, knowledge and the forces of nature," said the caption . "A saddening folly," said Searle.Monument, Rachel Whiteread: June 2001Whiteread placed a 14ft-high resin cast of the plinth itself upside-down to create a mirror image that changed colour with the light. She described it as "a pause. a quiet... (Guardian Unlimited)
News in brief Oct 29, 2007
Over the last 15 years Wilfred Cass has commissioned scores of large, often gigantic, art works for the Sculpture at Goodwood park in West Sussex, and also the monumental Bill Woodrow piece which was one of the temporary installations on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. King began his sculpting career as a studio assistant to Henry Moore. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
