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About Chris Wood

Born 1954, Newcastle, England. Chris Wood now lives and works in Cambridgeshire, UK. Chris Wood is a UK based artist with a career spanning over 25 years. Known for her signature light-responsive artworks and transformative installations, Wood has garnered global acclaim, culminating in the establishment of the Chris Wood Light Studio , est. 2015. Wood’s creative practice utilises optical materials to harness light and suggest ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world. Her meticulous pattern work and mathematical arrangements order the accidental and transform light into spectacular displays of vibrant colour. Wood has worked on large-scale architectural projects, site-specific installations and collaborated with global brands. Wood also produces innovative installations for gallery exhibitions and has shown extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Her work is represented in many private collections as well as the Shanghai Museum of Glass. In 2022 Wood’s project ‘Light Wall’ was awarded ‘Best in Creativity’ at the Ministry of Culture’s Public Art Awards in Taiwan.

Born 1954, Newcastle, England. Chris Wood now lives and works in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Chris Wood is a UK based artist with a career spanning over 25 years. Known for her signature light-responsive artworks and transformative installations, Wood has garnered global acclaim, culminating in the establishment of the Chris Wood Light Studio , est. 2015.
Wood’s creative practice utilises optical materials to harness light and suggest ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world. Her meticulous pattern work and mathematical arrangements order the accidental and transform light into spectacular displays of vibrant colour.

Wood has worked on large-scale architectural projects, site-specific installations and collaborated with global brands. Wood also produces innovative installations for gallery exhibitions and has shown extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Her work is represented in many private collections as well as the Shanghai Museum of Glass.
In 2022 Wood’s project ‘Light Wall’ was awarded ‘Best in Creativity’ at the Ministry of Culture’s Public Art Awards in Taiwan.

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Articles with Chris Wood

Visions of Light

Chris Wood is a UK based artist with a career spanning over 25 years. Known for her signature light-responsive artworks and transformative installations, Wood has garnered global acclaim, culminating in the establishment of the Chris Wood Light Studio , est. 2015.
Wood’s creative practice utilises optical materials to harness light and suggest ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world. Her meticulous pattern work and mathematical arrangements order the accidental and transform light into spectacular displays of vibrant colour.

Glass&Light

For Chris Wood, her canvas is glass and her medium is light. She uses one to manipulate the other with subtle interventions placed in the optical plane, harnessing patterns of light into exquisite tiny movies or streams of fluttering images, which recall ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world.