Owen Eric Wood

The following is an excerpt from the introduction essay by Trevor Gould.

"The claim of 'action at a distance' best describes works by Owen Eric Wood that invoke the role of performance, but once removed, so to speak. A term appropriately applied to Wood's strategy of displacement that occurs not through the medium as such, but through his role in the work as animator/commentator or performer in relation to the sculptural forms, video images or other disparate elements that are brought together in his disjointed narratives.

"In works such as Quality Time with the Family and The Clothes Make the Man he turns the focus on himself but typically distanced through his own reproductions as image as he delves into the structure and nature of identity through genealogy in one case and gender in relation to fashion in the other. As a performer in both works, repeating repetitive behaviour patterns, Wood neither animates the pieces in any literal sense, nor does he engage with the viewers directly, and as such serves as a living component to his sculpture."