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Fiona Woods

Pink Sheds
February 2005, Finavara, Co. Clare

 

This temporary artwork took place every weekend during February 2005. For three consecutive evenings after dusk a small farm shed blazed with pink light for a number of hours. Artist Fiona Woods set out to highlight the fact that people work in this beautiful but contested landscape and to draw attention to an existing rural aesthetic of which these sheds, taken as sculptural forms are a part. ‘It’s about making the familiar and ordinary beautiful and extraordinary, just for a moment’.

 

Fiona Woods is a visual artist whose practice includes curating and writing. She devised and curates Ground Up for the Arts Office of Clare County Council; she developed the partnership project from which Shifting Ground emerged. Her work includes commissioned public artworks and gallery based work. She has received awards from a number of bodies, including the Arts Council of Ireland [2005, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1997]; Clare and Roscommon County Councils [2001, 1997] and the Gulbenkian Foundation [1992]. She has curated a number of gallery exhibitions and on-site projects.