Bill Woodrow: The Box

13 Sep 2019-18 Jan 2020

Overview

Pippy Houldsworth is delighted to present Bill Woodrow's Clockswarm in The Box, a solo project space alongside the main gallery. The exhibition runs from 13 September to 19 October 2019.

Towards the end of the 1990s Woodrow began to develop a series work informed by bees and beekeeping, drawing particularly on the symbiotic relationship between a hive of bees and their human keepers. Clockswarm, the smallest of a series of bronze 'swarm' sculptures, takes the form of a mantel clock encrusted with a golden cloud of bees that obscure all but its outline. Contrasting the ephemeral, mobile structure of living creatures with a made-made marker of time, the work examines the complex relationship between human endeavour and the natural world.