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Artist who graduated with first-class honours in three-dimensional design (furniture) from Middlesex Polytechnic, 1984–8, studying glass design at the Royal College of Art, 1988–90. In 1989, Wood undertook a Pilkington Glass research project to examine the potential for holography in architecture, also a travel scholarship to New York to work with architectural glass artist James Carpenter. Wood gained a number of awards, including from 1999 a Siltint Industries Ltd material grant for the development of artworks in dichroic glass, a clear float glass with a series of microscopically thin coatings of metal oxides; also The Junction award, 2001, for artists collaborating to use new technology. Following an appointment as project manager for a major sculptural project in Japan, in 1990–1, “the care of my two young children was my main priority from 1991–7,” after which she was involved in a variety of exhibitions and installations employing glass, sound and video in the Cambridgeshire area, where she lived at Stretham.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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