MATTHEW WOOD
b. 1973
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Ffin y Parc Major Solo Show and book launch
2022 Ffin y Parc New Works
2020 Ffin y Parc New Works
2019 The Judges’s Lodging Artist in Residence
2019 Ffin y Parc New Works
2019 Attic Gallery (New Works)
2018 MOMA Wales (A Sense of Place)
2018 Ffin y Parc (New Works) 2017 STORIEL Bangor (In the Moment)
2017 Ffin y Parc (Croft Castle and Welsh Landscapes)
2016 Weston Park Capability Brown 300
2016 Silk Top Hat Gallery (Church Interiors of the Marches and Other Paintings)
2016 Attic Gallery (New Works)
2016 Ffin y Parc (Erddig Hall and Welsh Landscapes)
2016 Erddig Hall (Artist in Residence exhibition)
2015 Silk Top Hat Gallery (Castle Lodge and Other Paintings)
2015 Ffin Y Parc (Chirk Castle New Works)
2015 Chirk Castle (Artist in Residence exhibition)
2014 Ffin Y Parc (New Works) 2014 West Wales Art Centre
2014 Powis Castle (The Powys Castle paintings)
2013 Ffin Y Parc (New Works) 2012 Ffin Y Parc (New Works)
2011 Denbigh Library and Arts Centre (110 Paintings of Wales)
2011 MOMA Wales (110 Paintings of Wales)
2010 MOMA Wales (MOMA Interiors)
2007 Oriel Davies, Newtown (In Focus Interiors)
2004 4 The Square, Ironbridge, Shropshire (Grey Area. New Paintings of Brussels) Group Exhibitions 2017 Oriel Ynys Mon, ‘Impressions of Wales’ 2016 Storiel, Bangor, ‘Snowdonia’, Ffin Y Parc, Llanwrst; The Attic Gallery, Swansea. Silk Top Hat Gallery, Ludlow. The Gorstella Gallery, Chester; The Lion Street Gallery, Hay on Wye 2014 Ffin Y Parc, Llanwrst; West Wales Art Centre, Fishguard; The Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff; The Gorstella Gallery, Chester; The Lion Street Gallery, Hay on Wye; 2013 – 2009 ; Theatre Clwyd, Mold; Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw Arts Centre, Llanbedrog, Pwllheli, Gwynedd; The School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth; Courtroom Gallery, Lampeter; The Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, Shropshire; St Johns international School, Waterloo, Belgium; Le Petit Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Toko. Aberystwyth; St.David's Hall, Cardiff; Theatre Mwldan, Cardigan; Rhyl Library, Museum and Arts Centre. Rhyl. Open Exhibitions John Moores 25: 2008
Collections
National Library of Wales
The Judges’s Lodging
Museum of Modern Art Wales (MOMA Wales)
Powis Castle (National Trust)
Chirk Castle (National Trust)
Erddig Hall (National Trust)
Croft Castle (National Trust)
STORIEL, Bangor
Society Memberships
The Royal Cambrian Academy
Teaching
Shrewsbury College 2002 – 2014 Lecturer in Fine Art
Shrewsbury College 2014 – 2016 Course leader Foundation Degree Creative Art Practice and HND Art and Design
Publications
The Mountains of Snowdonia in Art, published 2015
John Moores 25, published 2008 by National Museums Liverpool
By the Yukon. E.A.Hopkins. Illustrations by Matthew Wood, published 2000
Fforma 2005. Exhibition catalogue
Empty Swept and Garnished 2005. Exhibition catalogue
Art Education
2000-2001 The School of Art, University of Wales. MA in Fine Art - Painting
1998-1999 Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, UCE. PGCE (Art and Design).
1995-1998 Middlesex University. BA Honours Degree Fine Art - Painting.
1994-1995 Shrewsbury School of Art. Foundation in Art and Design.