Chris Wood
Photo credit - Théo Pitout
Born 1954, Newcastle, England. Chris Wood now lives and works in Cambridgeshire, UK.
Chris Wood is a UK based artist with a career spanning over 25 years. Known for her signature light-responsive artworks and transformative installations, Wood has garnered global acclaim, culminating in the establishment of the Chris Wood Light Studio , est. 2015.
Wood’s creative practice utilises optical materials to harness light and suggest ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world. Her meticulous pattern work and mathematical arrangements order the accidental and transform light into spectacular displays of vibrant colour.
Wood has worked on large-scale architectural projects, site-specific installations and collaborated with global brands. Wood also produces innovative installations for gallery exhibitions and has shown extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Her work is represented in many private collections as well as the Shanghai Museum of Glass.
In 2022 Wood’s project ‘Light Wall’ was awarded ‘Best in Creativity’ at the Ministry of Culture’s Public Art Awards in Taiwan.
Background
After graduating with a first class honours degree in furniture design at Middlesex Polytechnic (1984) this led her to study MA Glass at the Royal College of Art (1988) where she further explored objects & materials that allowed her to control, alter and manipulate the performance of light as a tangible medium.
The most important of these material discoveries was ‘dichroic glass’ which the artist describes as ‘the material that most eloquently describes of the magic of light’. Alongside raising her family Wood spent 10 years examining the creative potential of dichroic before carving out her unique artistic voice which has since become synonymous with Wood’s practice.
Recent Projects (2026)
Tom Tits Experiment, Södertälje, Sweden. Stella, Suspended Lens installation.
Private Client, Tampa, Florida USA. Bird on a Wire , 5300 × 1900 × 450 mm. Fireplace installation.
Meridian Art, Boston, USA. Soar, 6800 x 8000 mm. Wall mounted dichroic installation.
JMC Art Partners, New York, USA.Triptych, 3 x (1m x 1m); three dichroic encased artworks for the the newly opened Rutgers Cancer Institute
Art and Associates, Atlanta, USA.Triptych, 3 x (1.2m x 1.2m); series of dichroic artworks for Coca Cola offices
