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Michael Brennand-Wood
Since the early 1990s Michael Brennand-Wood has been at the forefront of the textile art world and he has worked on a series of major craft+architecture commissions. Although at the centre of his practice is a keen interest in the ‘contested areas of textile practice embroidery, lace, and patterning’ his work also shows how the artist can intervene in the spatial positioning of their work.
Most recently, an installation by Michael was unveiled at the Yorkshire Cancer Centre, Leeds (2008). This comprised two wall hung works, ‘World of Echoes’ and ‘Stars Underfoot’, in the atrium.
Michael Brennand-Wood’s installations are artistic interventions not only in the spatial and sculptural configuration of the private and the public but also within the history of textiles, and their current preoccupation with conflict, diaspora, and compression and tension as well as individual and collective experiences of space find a powerful resonance in Northern Ireland.
A major new public artwork by Michael Brennand-Wood will be unveiled in October 2010 at Queens University of Ulster.
Published: Wednesday, 20th October 2010
Read more in: Arts & Cultural Development
