Creative & dance journal – By Andrew Wood

Colourfields Gallery 3

The photographic art presented here is part of the Colourfields series, made from September to December 2025.

Colourfields Gallery 2

The photographic art presented here is part of the Colourfields series, made from September to December 2025.

Colourfields Gallery 1

The photographic art presented here is part of the Colourfields series, made from September to December 2025.

Colourfields is a series of photographic artworks which create expanses of colour, light and dark: usurping the conventional photographic notions of foreground and background such that there is only surface. Or simply put ‘abstract photography’.

Crop trials with biochar and the residuals art series

The residuals series of art works/performances used biochar granules that were re-purposed as artists charcoal for drawing. The series ran parallel to crop trials of potatoes with biochar – which acts as a plant fertiliser. The abstract for a scientific paper about these trials in 2024 is presented here which was developed with my collaborator Karl Wallendszus in 2025.

Suspending Residuals #7

Residuals #7 was the longest of the Residuals series: an 8 metre long charcoal drawing which was intended to be suspended upside down so that you could move underneath it and experience the sensation of ‘flying over its surface’. In spring and summer 2025, Theo Hopkins – who is a designer and wood craftsman, worked with me in designing a wooden hanging frame to suspend the Residuals #7 drawing.

Feeling and Sensation Installation

In August 2025, I completed a design for an installation in the Feeling and Sensation series including producing the materials for it. Since I had nowhere to exhibit it then I created a virtual animation using CAD software which is shown here. This installation focused on homelessness, cruelty and the anaesthesia which we endure for it to exist.

Feeling and Sensation Diptychs

At the start of July 2025, I had begun to arrange photographs which I created with my Rolleicord film camera in pairs – diptychs. The black and white photos were sensuous. I was intrigued by how they modified each other: complementing or contrasting, creating a relation between them and of them.

Dance & Movement Research 2024: dance and poetry workshop

The poet Francis Boua join me, dancer Jo Dyer and photographer Hugh Pryor at the Old Fire Station dance studio in Oxford on Friday 19 January 2024 for a dance and poetry workshop. Here’s a film clip from it. And yes, it took me more than a year to obtain the permissions for the use of the film so I might create this post!

Residuals #10 Light

In January 2025 – a year after starting the Residuals series, I used performance and long exposure photography to record light – its reflection from the surfaces of moving bodies, as a residual – including darkness and shadow too! Here are presented these ‘light graphs’ from the session at Goldsmiths CI at Goldsmiths, University of London on Saturday 18 January.