Paige Wood

Fine Art BA (Hons)

Do you want to feel lucky?

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This work is informed by the joy of childhood naivety - magical thinking,  the belief that our thoughts can influence the world. These superstitions act as rituals, passed from grandmother to mother to child. This practice is concerned with embodying these stories.  

These traditions belong to the working-class communities I come from, they were a response to mundane, nonsensical and strange, they were a way of finding joy and humour within them.  

I work with materials often relegated to the domestic; textiles & ceramics, traditional processes that have been confined to the label ‘craft’.  I make sculptures out of mod rock and plaster, to create art that doesn't represent an object but the memory of it. 

By framing these objects within a gallery space I'm elevating what would normally be viewed as the detritus of the working class into objects of significance, power and luck.

A ceramic consisting of a person with a slice of toast for a head
A ceramic of a hand holding a pair of scissors in the palm
A pillow version of a pill bottle
A pillow with a text message exchange on it

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