Richard Woods - Wood & Bricks & Bricks & Wood

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Following acclaimed exhibitions at Milton Keynes Gallery and the Liverpool Biennial this year, Richard Woods opens WORKS|PROJECTS with an inaugural installation of new works - his first solo exhibition in the South West. Renowned for his signature architectural interventions and transformations, Woods' installation plays directly with the new alterations in the gallery. Where new walls have been built Woods has clad them with bold, wood block printed surfaces that mimic the structures that are behind the walls — breezeblock and engineering brick. Wood's intervention is at once explicitly fake but faithful in its attempt to return the space to its original appearance. A new floor sculpture inserts an explosion of clashing colour resembling something between a Vorticist painting and a giant game of pick-up sticks - flat cartoon renditions of three-dimensional planks piled on top of each other to create a super-flat play with perspective and mass.