Clare Woods: Victim of Geography

‘Victim of Geography’ presents eleven new and powerfully large paintings by Clare Woods, marking her first solo presentation of work in Scotland. Woods paints from found images, selecting photographs featuring people at their most vulnerable, with figures that are exposed or set within remote environments. 

Discussing the inspiration behind her work, Woods comments: “The source material used for my paintings acts as a catalyst to bring the unconscious or hidden to the surface. The unseen internal anxiety is transformed through the painting process into something I can deal with; it has a form and a presence. It stops being unconscious once it has been translated into paint, it’s real, it’s tangible, I can fight with it while I paint.”