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Duncan Wood NEAC

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Towards Brailes - Stubble Burning

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Duncan Wood NEAC
Watercolour
25 x 33 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019

Towards Brailes

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Duncan Wood NEAC
Oil
48 x 66 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019

Late Afternoon Light: On the Water

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Duncan Wood NEAC
Monoprint, charcoal & bodycolour
23 x 33 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2018

About Duncan Wood NEAC

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Artist's Statement

Duncan’s work is concerned with emulating an aspect, or aspects of the first-hand visible world of landscape, still life and the figure - at times merging these genre. Painting is for him, primarily, a personal homage to visual experience, to ‘The Existent’; an activity in which the task is to conjure and edit series of colours, marks and compositions that give as true a form as possible to his vision. 

Duncan hopes that viewers of his work will identify with its source, or come to perceive its source, or parts of its source from looking afresh at the world. He does not attempt to copy appearances exactly, because the world is in a constant state of flux and therefore impossible to pin down. Neither does he disregard the place for the conceptual, but would wish it to be subservient to and derive from the senses. 

He believes that the permutations available to painters that wish to work directly from nature, but in a new and vital way are inexhaustible. All this is not to say that a painter's sustenance is found purely from a direct collaboration with nature but also from an awareness of historical and contemporary art.

From: 'The Tables Turned’ (The Lyrical Ballads) 

‘One impulse from a vernal wood

May teach you more of man,

Of moral evil and of good,

Than all the sages can.

Sweet is the law that nature brings;

Our meddling intellect

Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things;

- We murder to dissect.’

William Wordsworth (1798)

Biographical Details

1980-81   Gloucestershire College of Art and Design

1981-84   Sheffield Hallam University, BA (Hons) Fine Art

1996-97   The Institute of Education, University of London  (Since 2015 the UCL Institute of Education)

2001-03   The City and Guilds of London Art School, MA FineArt - Painting

2008-14   Faculty Member and Senior Tutor, The Prince’s Drawing School, London

                (Since November 2014  The Royal Drawing School)     

2011  -     Associate Lecturer, Fine Art, The Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield Hallam University

Society Memberships

New English Art Club

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

‘ING Discerning Eye’,  2011  -  Prize Winner 

Other exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013 - Derivations and New Directions’, Browse & Darby, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

1986 - The City Art Galleries (Graves), Sheffield

1991 - Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London work selected by Sir Brinsley Ford, Chairman, The National Art Collections Fund

1991 - Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead and touring

1992 - Discerning Eye,  Mall Galleries,  London. Work Selected by prof Glynn Williams, Head of Fine Art, RCA

1993 - The Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London

1993 - Making a Mark’, Drawing Symposium, London

1994 - The Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London and touring

1994 - The City Art Galleries, Glasgow and touring

1995 - Christie’s, King Street, London

1995 - The City Art Galleries, Nottingham Supported by East Midlands Arts

1996 - The Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London

1996 - The Fine Art Society, London

1996 - Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London Work selected by Martin Gayford, art critic/writer: Telegraph and chief critic, Bloomberg News

1998-99 - The National Trust (East Midlands region), Artist in Residence

1998 - The Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London

1998 - The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

1999 - Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Work selected by Tom Coates

2000 - Wirksworth Festival Derbyshire - Supported by Arts Council England

2003/4 - Atlantic Fosterart Ltd, London - In association with the Howard Scott Gallery,  New York

2005 - The Hunting Art Prizes, The Royal College of Art, London

2005/7 - Memories of Andrew Devonshire,  Chatsworth

2006 - ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries,  London - Work Selected by Laura Gascoigne - Art Critic, The Spectator

2006-11 - Contemporary Gallery Artists,  Browse & Darby,  London

2007 - Christmas Exhibition, Browse & Darby,  London

2008 - Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire’:  A Life and Art Collection, Buxton Art Gallery

2008 - Threadneedle Prize, London - Selected Artist

2009/10 - Christmas Exhibition, Browse & Darby, London

2011 - ING Discerning Eye, London - Invited by Brian Sewell, art critic, London Evening Standard

2011 - The London Art Fair  (with Browse & Darby)

2011 - Chicago Art Fair  (with Browse & Darby)

2011-14 - Contemporary Gallery Artists, Browse & Darby,  London

2012 - Christmas Exhibition, Browse & Darby,  London

2013 - Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition, Kings Place

2013 - The London Art Fair  (with Browse & Darby)

2013 - Art Chicago  (with Browse & Darby)

2014 - Christmas Exhibition, Browse & Darby, London

2014 - London Art Fair  (with Browse & Darby)

2015 - Christmas Exhibition,  Browse & Darby,  London

2015  London Art Fair (with Browse & Darby)

2015 Expo Chicago (with Browse & Darby)

2015  Christmas Exhibition, Browse & Darby, London

2016  London Art Fair (with Browse & Darby)

2016 ‘Recording Britain Now: Society ’, The New Art Gallery Walsall The John Ruskin Prize - Shortlist (in association with Arts Council England)

2016 ‘Recording Britain Now: Society ’, The Electrician’s Gallery Trinity Buoy Wharf, London The John Ruskin Prize (in association with the V&A) and touring 

 

Public and Corporate Collections

The Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees - Chatsworth and Lismore Castle

The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation Inc, New York

The Finnish Embassy

The National Trust

Sheffield Hallam University

 

Private Collections

UK, Europe, USA and Japan

Publications

Devonshire. A, 'Accidents of Fortune', 2004, Michael Russell (Publishing) ltd, p115

Devonshire. D, 'Memories of Andrew Devonshire', 2007,  Landmark Publishing, p 65

Wright, K, Threadneedle Prize, 2008 (Illustrated catalogue essay), 'In Praise of Figurative Art', Catalogue: pp 23, 53

Browse & Darby, E-Catalogue, London - 2013

Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1

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