Newcastle University

‘The Studio as Model’

Dr Jon Wood studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and works at the Henry Moore Institute where he coordinates the research programme and curates exhibitions and collections displays. He is also an Associate Lecturer at Leeds University, where he teaches on the MA in Art History. He works on twentieth-century and contemporary sculpture, with a particularly research interest in the artist’s studio and the artist interview, and has recently compiled and edited the Modern Sculpture Reader (2007), an anthology of twentieth-century writings on sculpture, with Alex Potts and David Hulks. He was co-editor of the two-volume publication Sculpture in 20th century Britain (2003). He is presently compiling a collection of essays, in collaboration with Ian Christie, looking at the changing relationship between sculpture and film and writing a book called Sculpture Now, for Tate Publishing.

He has published widely on twentieth century sculpture in Britain and more internationally (particularly on the work of Brancusi, Gaudier-Brzeska, Epstein, Moore, Giacometti and Picasso) and on contemporary sculpture (notably on the work of Cragg, Woodrow, Vermeiren, Barlow, Locke, De Cock and Monk).