Chris Wood
Dichroic & Light
Wood’s practice is primarily concerned with the medium of dichroic glass, which was originally developed by NASA space agency as a colourless material that filters and reflects wavelengths of light producing a spectrum of rainbow coloured shadows and projections.
Working with the intangible medium of light, Wood orchestrates a range of high and low-tech optical materials to harness patterns of light that suggest ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world. The artist’s sculptures are refined and often minimal arrangements creating kinetic patterns in response to the environments in which they are placed.
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About the Artist
Chris Wood is a British artist, whose studio is located in Cambridgeshire. After studying Furniture Design at Middlesex University, she completed a MA in Glass at the Royal College of Art, where she developed large-scale projects that experimented with light.
Wood’s work has gained recognition from an international audience, and she has worked on numerous public artworks and significant commissions, including in London, Washington, Paris, Taipei, Riyadh, Sharjah and Dubai. Corporate and public collections include: the Shanghai Museum of Glass, Yale University, Taiwan’s National Exhibition Centre, Fendi, and Adobe, as well as private collections in Europe, America and the GCC.