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Max Lamb & Richard Woods
Wood
Open from 6th July
Felling an 80-foot, 60-year-old Poplar Tree (Populus Tremula) just at the start of May was the beginning of a praxis that has enjoined Max Lamb and Richard Woods at Little Milton in Oxfordshire. Both artists have worked extensively with wood, with Max particularly enjoying its direct use, referencing his project “My Grandfather’s Tree 1822-2009.” Richard has been involved in ongoing interrogations into the use of milled and planked trees, pattern, and colour for almost 30 years. The identity of a tree and the romanticism imbued within it are endless, but in fact, Populus Tremula was the first tree to have its DNA fully decoded and mapped in 2006. Poplar trees symbolise a connection to another world and have a melancholic air; in Druidic lore, they personify old age because of their white, grey leaves. In Roman culture, they can also signify the promise of revival and new life. Thennymph Leuke was turned into a Poplar tree to survive in the underworld (Hades). The Poplar is recorded as one of the only trees able to survive in the shade of Hades at the shores of Persephone’s groves. This Poplar will become a 12-meter length of a table, wallpaper, and many, many wooden bowls – being turned locally at the direction of Max Lamb.
Max Lamb
Max Lamb was born in Cornwall in 1980 and attended Amersham & Wycombe College for art and Design. He later attended Northumbria University, receiving a degree in three-dimensional design in 2003 and received his master’s degree in design products from the Royal College of Art in 2006. Lamb started his own design firm in 2007 and has taught at Industrial Design at École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne in Switzerland since 2008 and at the Royal College of Art. Recent exhibitions and projects include Under Present Conditions, Friedman Brenda (2024); Inventory Salon 94 Design, New York (2024); Crafted in Metal FUMA (2024); BOX, FUMI (2023); Mirror, Mirror: Reflections on Deign Chatsworth (2023); Glits and Glamour 200 Years of Lobmeyr, MAK Australian Museum of Applied Arts (2023); Smoke, The Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia (2023) among many others.
Richard Woods
Richard Woods was born in Chester, England, in 1966 and graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 1990, where he trained as a sculptor. He lives and works in London. Woods completed a major architectural commission in South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, designed an interior for the Comme des Garçons’ flagship store in Osaka, orchestrated the mock Tudor overhaul of a private residence in New York and transformed the interior of Cary Grant’s former Hollywood residence for its new owner, Jeffrey Deitch. In 2003, his re-paving of a cloistered courtyard was the centrepiece of The Henry Moore Foundation’s exhibition at the 50th International Venice Biennale of Art. Recent exhibitions and projects include Southwark Cathedral, London (2022); Frieze Sculpture, London (2018, 2013); Chelsea Space, London (2017); Folkestone Triennial (2017); Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2016); Festival of Love, Southbank Centre, London (2015); Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2015); Albion Barn, Oxford (2015); Bloomberg Space, London (2012) and Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2009).
Max Lamb & Richard Woods
Wood
Open from 6th July
Felling an 80-foot, 60-year-old Poplar Tree (Populus Tremula) just at the start of May was the beginning of a praxis that has enjoined Max Lamb and Richard Woods at Little Milton in Oxfordshire. Both artists have worked extensively with wood, with Max particularly enjoying its direct use, referencing his project “My Grandfather’s Tree 1822-2009.” Richard has been involved in ongoing interrogations into the use of milled and planked trees, pattern, and colour for almost 30 years. The identity of a tree and the romanticism imbued within it are endless, but in fact, Populus Tremula was the first tree to have its DNA fully decoded and mapped in 2006. Poplar trees symbolise a connection to another world and have a melancholic air; in Druidic lore, they personify old age because of their white, grey leaves. In Roman culture, they can also signify the promise of revival and new life. Thennymph Leuke was turned into a Poplar tree to survive in the underworld (Hades). The Poplar is recorded as one of the only trees able to survive in the shade of Hades at the shores of Persephone’s groves. This Poplar will become a 12-meter length of a table, wallpaper, and many, many wooden bowls – being turned locally at the direction of Max Lamb.
Max Lamb
Max Lamb was born in Cornwall in 1980 and attended Amersham & Wycombe College for art and Design. He later attended Northumbria University, receiving a degree in three-dimensional design in 2003 and received his master’s degree in design products from the Royal College of Art in 2006. Lamb started his own design firm in 2007 and has taught at Industrial Design at École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne in Switzerland since 2008 and at the Royal College of Art. Recent exhibitions and projects include Under Present Conditions, Friedman Brenda (2024); Inventory Salon 94 Design, New York (2024); Crafted in Metal FUMA (2024); BOX, FUMI (2023); Mirror, Mirror: Reflections on Deign Chatsworth (2023); Glits and Glamour 200 Years of Lobmeyr, MAK Australian Museum of Applied Arts (2023); Smoke, The Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia (2023) among many others.
Richard Woods
Richard Woods was born in Chester, England, in 1966 and graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 1990, where he trained as a sculptor. He lives and works in London. Woods completed a major architectural commission in South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, designed an interior for the Comme des Garçons’ flagship store in Osaka, orchestrated the mock Tudor overhaul of a private residence in New York and transformed the interior of Cary Grant’s former Hollywood residence for its new owner, Jeffrey Deitch. In 2003, his re-paving of a cloistered courtyard was the centrepiece of The Henry Moore Foundation’s exhibition at the 50th International Venice Biennale of Art. Recent exhibitions and projects include Southwark Cathedral, London (2022); Frieze Sculpture, London (2018, 2013); Chelsea Space, London (2017); Folkestone Triennial (2017); Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2016); Festival of Love, Southbank Centre, London (2015); Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2015); Albion Barn, Oxford (2015); Bloomberg Space, London (2012) and Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2009).
