Summary
Throughout the 1980s Woodrow created sculptures from used domestic appliances, car bodies and other household bric-a-brac, transforming the objects by cutting into the metal and twisting or bending it to create new forms. The resulting assemblages combine reality with representation, since the original, host object is still recognisable in conjunction with the new entity created from it, to which it usually remains connected by a kind of umbilical cord. Well Done! is typical of this technique. It consists of a steel frying pan sitting on a tripod on top of an upended copper funnel. This stands on an old tea chest bearing the words ‘K T D A Produce of Kenya’ stamped on its sides. Woodrow cut two-sided triangular openings in the copper funnel and bent them outwards at the third edge so that the triangles, painted yellow and red, curl upwards in the manner of flames. From the base of the frying pan he cut the silhouette of Africa twice in a mirrored configuration around the southernmost end of the continent. He bent these two shapes up so that they come together to create a more solid form… (read more)
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