Born in Doncaster and studied at the local College of Art, progressing to Leicester College and then the Royal College of Art. Woodward worked as an assistant to Henry Moore at Perry Green from 1972 enlarging sculpture from the artist’s maquettes. Moore recommended the Cat to celebrate his 80th birthday in 1978 and it was purchased with funding from Harlow District Council, Harlow Development Corporation, Harlow Arts Council and Harlow Art Trust .After Moore’s death he became Head Conservator to the Henry Moore Foundation travelling the world to install works and do restoration and repair to plaster casts. He was a sculptor himself working in bronze and wood. The bronze Cat (1962) shows the influence of Moore’s abstraction and ancient Egyptian figurines. In 1983 he produced eleven holograms of the Stations of the Cross for Coventry Cathedral.He retired from the HMF in 2008.He lived and worked in London. Works CatBronze196264 x 34 x 34 cmCentral Library, Harlow Town CentreOwned by Harlow Arts Council
Jane Ackroyd: life story“I was born in London into a seemingly conventional family. We lived in Nottinghill, which as a child in the sixties was a brilliant, bohemian and exciting place to be. My parents were extremely supportive of the arts and encouraged every aspect from acting to drumming to clay sculpture. In the basement of our house there was a large room, in which we were allowed to play havoc. So we painted the walls, made up plays, used plaster of paris and bags of clay (supplied by my mother). In this room we also had a vervet monkey, a bush baby, twenty one white mice and a couple of gerbils! Every Sunday my father would drop me and my brothers and sister at the zoo while he vanished to follow other pursuits. This is when I became immersed in the beauty of animals and birds.Before going to college I did evening classes with a sculptor called Jean Gibson and this experience gave me the confidence to apply to Art School. I got a first class honours degree at St Martin’s School of Art in 1979. St Martin’s opened my eyes to abstraction, serendipity and spontanaeity. During this time […]
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