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Kay Wood

Education
1999 MVA – Painting, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
1996 BVA (Hons) – Painting Sydney College of the Arts
1993 BA (Hons) - Deakin University

Instagram @kay___wood

Represented in Western Australia by STALA CONTEMPORARY

All my work stems from unarticulated interior impulses to engage with materiality in a way that resists rigid codification. Process feeds position, and things made are rhizomatic sites where an understanding of self in world is constantly approached.

Painting is always involved along with other malleable materials that lend themselves to an open ended process of working. There will be colours, materials, shapes etc., which are embroidered and interwoven in the fabric of my historical/experiential self and I also use what is part of my daily life (cardboard packaging, wrapping, old fabric, found items). This gives rise to what I call a ‘rough luxe’ aesthetic combined with anarchic energy.

The hardest thing for anyone in the search for meaning is that we exist in our phenomenal world as finite objects but we exist in an infinity that contains an energy that gives rise to all mass : something that we do not see (now, if ever).  The fact that our 3d world comes from something imperceptible strengthens my belief that all materiality, even thoughts and other things we don’t consider objects, carry within themselves this energy: are capable of communicating meaning in a non literal, non-linear, non-linguistic, undefined and poetic manner, and our intuitive being is capable of feeling it.

In all my work, sculpturally oriented or otherwise, I am always within pictorial space : that place which is infinitely larger than the physical one it occupies, and what is co-created will always be some kind of balancing act, between structure and the un-nameable.