Alistair Woods (b.1991) is an artist based in Manchester exploring painting and sculpture. His work embodies aspects of underground subcultures, football fan culture and left wing politics, creating imagery that’s intertwined with art historical references. The work uses both traditional and non-traditional materials to combine these low and high culture reference points, giving them equal importance and cultural value. This isn’t with the interest of devaluing what has come before, but to elevate the validity of the unofficial.
- Selected solo exhibitions:
- Stringing Rope at Ankle Level, Village Gallery (Manchester), 2024
- Breaking Free, Ducie Street Warehouse (Manchester) 2023
- Doves & Crossbones, Gloam Gallery (Sheffield), 2022
- Beyond the Parameters of Officialdom, Bankley Gallery (Manchester), 2021
- Common Denominator, Victoria Station Gallery (Manchester), 2016
- 8 Easels, Sadler’s Yard (Manchester), 2016
- Subjected To Change, Basement Arts (Leeds), 2014
- Selected group exhibitions:
- and still I may, Workplace Gallery (London), 2024
- Seeing Things, The Edge, (Wigan), 2024
- Archives At Play 2, Castlefield Gallery, (Manchester), 2023
- Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, (Swansea), 2022
- Intersections, Paradise Works, (Salford), 2022
- Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth, (Manchester), 2022
- HOME Open, HOME, (Manchester), 2022
- Post>andalism, a Unruly Gallery show at HetHEM, (Amsterdam), 2021
- NHS, a Division of Labour show at Paradise Works, (Salford), 2021
- WCAF Open 2020, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery (Warrington), 2020
- Much Too Shy, Air Gallery (Altrincham), 2020
- Operation Impact Regulations, PS Mirabel. (Manchester), 2019
- Bankley Open Call. Bankley Gallery, (Manchester) 2019, (Overal winner)
- Air Open. Air Gallery, (Altrincham) 2019, (Winnner of the Castlefield Gallery choice award)
- A New Dialogue, Gallery Frank, (Rochdale), 2018
- Furnished Archipelago, Paradise Works, (Salford), 2018
- Tipping The Scales, Paradise Works, (Salford), 2018
- Sluice Art Biennial, (London), 2017
- On-Going, Sloe Gallery, (Manchester), 2017
- Other selected projects:
- AA2A Project Residency, Staffordshire University, (Stoke On Trent), 2022-2023
- AA2A Project Residency, Staffordshire University, (Stoke On Trent), 2019
- Co-founded Depot Art Studios, 2015- Present
- Education:
- Leeds Metropolitan University, BA (Honours) Fine Art, (2013)
- Farnham University for the Creative Arts, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, (2010)
Email: alistairwoods01@gmail.com
- Breaking Free, Ducie Street Warehouse (Manchester) 2023
- Doves & Crossbones, Gloam Gallery (Sheffield), 2022
- Beyond the Parameters of Officialdom, Bankley Gallery (Manchester), 2021
- Common Denominator, Victoria Station Gallery (Manchester), 2016
- 8 Easels, Sadler’s Yard (Manchester), 2016
- Subjected To Change, Basement Arts (Leeds), 2014
- Selected group exhibitions:
- and still I may, Workplace Gallery (London), 2024
- Seeing Things, The Edge, (Wigan), 2024
- Archives At Play 2, Castlefield Gallery, (Manchester), 2023
- Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, (Swansea), 2022
- Intersections, Paradise Works, (Salford), 2022
- Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth, (Manchester), 2022
- HOME Open, HOME, (Manchester), 2022
- Post>andalism, a Unruly Gallery show at HetHEM, (Amsterdam), 2021
- NHS, a Division of Labour show at Paradise Works, (Salford), 2021
- WCAF Open 2020, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery (Warrington), 2020
- Much Too Shy, Air Gallery (Altrincham), 2020
- Operation Impact Regulations, PS Mirabel. (Manchester), 2019
- Bankley Open Call. Bankley Gallery, (Manchester) 2019, (Overal winner)
- Air Open. Air Gallery, (Altrincham) 2019, (Winnner of the Castlefield Gallery choice award)
- A New Dialogue, Gallery Frank, (Rochdale), 2018
- Furnished Archipelago, Paradise Works, (Salford), 2018
- Tipping The Scales, Paradise Works, (Salford), 2018
- Sluice Art Biennial, (London), 2017
- On-Going, Sloe Gallery, (Manchester), 2017
- Other selected projects:
- AA2A Project Residency, Staffordshire University, (Stoke On Trent), 2022-2023
- AA2A Project Residency, Staffordshire University, (Stoke On Trent), 2019
- Co-founded Depot Art Studios, 2015- Present
- Education:
- Leeds Metropolitan University, BA (Honours) Fine Art, (2013)
- Farnham University for the Creative Arts, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, (2010)
Email: alistairwoods01@gmail.com