Faye Eleanor Woods Selected for the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries 2023

We are delighted to announce that Faye Eleanor Woods is included in the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries 2023 prior to her solo exhibition at Anima Mundi early this summer.

Now in its fourteenth year, this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see some of the most promising talent in Scotland in one single, large-scale exhibition in the heart of Edinburgh. Showcasing leading graduates selected from their degree presentations, the exhibition is a brilliant overview of the current outlook of emerging Scottish art and architecture.
 
This year selection was made by Exhibition Convenor Annie Cattrell RSA, with assistance from her fellow Academicians and representatives from the five main colleges of art. 

Faye Eleanor Woods is a Scottish artist currently living and working in West Yorkshire. Her symbolic artwork acts as a love letter to her own experience, full of life’s joy, absurdity, humour, loss and fear. Recent works explore her own personal journey through grief, one she describes as dark, weepy and often hilarious. She hails her work as a tangilble form of inner catharsis. Using raw pigments and acrylic ink she forces rich colour into the grain of the canvas, blurring edges with copious amounts of water or using thin layers of oil to blend the figures with their backgrounds creating an ethereal presence. As Woods says “I try to bring attention to the surreal aspects of life and the way the oddness of experience manifests within individuals and how that manifestation then affects me. In my vulnerability I crave strange moments of intimacy. I imagine drinking straight from the tap of all emotion, drinking so much of it, I take on too much and I’m sick and everything I spew out ends up in my work.”

The exhibition takes place from 18/3 - 16/4/2023 at The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL

 
Gallery Opening Hours: Mon to Sat 10am – 5pm, Sun 12 – 5pm