Paula Woof

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Paula Woof
OccupationPainter, muralist Edit this on Wikidata
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Paula Woof is a British artist, best known as a painter, sculptor, muralist, mosaicist and art teacher. She has a number of works of public art, some in her on name and some made collaboratively with other artists, on display in the English Midlands.

Career[]

From 1974–1977, Woof was part of the Birmingham-based live art group BAG, with Mark Renn and Ian Everard.[1]

In 1978, she painted a series of three murals on the gable ends of terraced houses at the eastern end of Heathfield Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, in conjunction with Renn and Steve Field.[2] These murals lasted around 27 years before being overpainted by new murals. In 1982, she painted an internal mural at Frankley Community School, together with Field and Renn.[3] The trio worked as "The Mural Company" and were profiled in a 1982 Central Television documentary, "Round About".[2]

Woof, Renn, Field, and worked jointly as the West Midlands Public Art Collective, which was active circa 1987.[4]

Together with Eric Klein Velderman she sculpted James Watt's Mad Machine to a design by Tim Tolkien.[5]

Her works include the ornamental height restrictor at Kings Norton railway station, Birmingham, and several other commissions for public transport interchanges, for CENTRO (later Transport for West Midlands).

In 2008, one or more of her paintings were included in the exhibition "Art of Birmingham 1940-2008" at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.[6] The following year, her depiction of the city's Bull Ring Market was included in "The Birmingham Seen" exhibition at the same venue.[7]

Woof also works as an art teacher.[8][9]

Works[]

Picture Work Location Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Coordinates
(With links to map and aerial photo sources) 		Owner Notes
Handsworth Triptych Heathfield Road, Handsworth, Birmingham 1978 (1978) Mural Emulsion paint 52°30′29″N 1°54′18″W / 52.508019°N 1.905020°W / 52.508019; -1.905020 Set of three murals, depicting African wildlife. Since overpainted.


A Block, Menzies High School, West Bromwich 1986 (1986) Mural [10]


City of a Thousand Trades Bell Street Passage, Birmingham 1987 (1987) Relief
  • fibreglass
  • Pre-existing ceramic tiles, etched by sandblasting
 Made by the West Midlands Public Art Collective; commissioned by the then West Midlands County Council; lost[4]


Wolverhampton railway station footbridge. 1980s-1990s Mural Featuring famous Wulfrunians[11][12]


James Watt's Mad Machine - Winson Green Outer Circle Tram Stop (48800549752).jpg
More images 		James Watt's Mad Machine Winson Green Metro station 1998 (1998) Sculpture Steel 52°29′50″N 1°55′53″W / 52.497216°N 1.931290°W / 52.497216; -1.931290 With Tim Tolkien and Eric Klein Velderman[5]


Centro Cotteridge Interchange.JPG Feathers Of Freedom Pershore Road South, Cotteridge 2001 (2001) Public transport interchange Steel 52°24′57″N 1°55′51″W / 52.415796°N 1.930945°W / 52.415796; -1.930945 West Midlands Network


Kings Norton Station Car Park - overflow - steel sculptures (16994792489).jpg
More images 		height restrictor Kings Norton railway station, Birmingham Sculpture Steel 52°24′49″N 1°56′08″W / 52.413557°N 1.935618°W / 52.413557; -1.935618 Transport for West Midlands Depicts feathers


Pyramid sculpture, Selly Oak railway station - geograph.org.uk - 1280899.jpg
More images 		Pyramid gabian Selly Oak Station Sculpture Steel gabian, filled with coal 52°26′31″N 1°56′10″W / 52.441976°N 1.936239°W / 52.441976; -1.936239 Transport for West Midlands With Eric Klein Velderman[13]


Norman Street Cone.JPG Heron Winson Green, Birmingham Sculpture Steel 52°29′29″N 1°56′11″W / 52.491410°N 1.936415°W / 52.491410; -1.936415 heron was missing from plinth, as of December 2014 (see photo)


HMP Birmingham wall art (cropped).JPG Bird and dragonflies Winson Green, Birmingham Mural Ceramic 52°29′31″N 1°56′10″W / 52.491847°N 1.936220°W / 52.491847; -1.936220


Shared Journey St. Paul's at The Crossing, Walsall Mural Indoors


The Makers' Dozen Trail Wellington, Shropshire 2017 (2017) Sculpture paint on glass [14]


References[]

  1. ^ "Artists: Ian Everard". The Jack Fischer Gallery. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Round About". MACE Archive. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  3. ^ Ostler, Timothy; Field, Steve (18 January 1984). "Working With Artists: 1 Possibilities". Architects' Journal. 179 (3): 55–59, 61–66.
  4. ^ a b Tilson, Barbara (November 1991). "Art for the People". RIBA Journal. 98 (11): 41.
  5. ^ a b "Winson Green". CENTRO. Archived from the original on 7 October 2006.
  6. ^ Grimley, Terry (25 November 2008). "Art of Birmingham 1940-2008 exhibition". BusinessLive. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Carl Chinn to give free talk Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery". Birmingham Mail. 5 November 2009. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  8. ^ "The Poetry Society (Simon Rae's report)". Poetry Society.
  9. ^ "Marvellous Markets - Family art workshop with Paula Woof at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery on 28 Dec 2009". Live Brum. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  10. ^ "A block". The Menzies Phoenix. Retrieved 6 January 2020. [Includes a picture of Woof at work]
  11. ^ "Jim Boulton". History Website. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  12. ^ Williams, Ned (2007). A Century of Wolverhampton: Events, People and Places over the 20th Century. p. 103. ISBN 978-0750949422. [Includes a picture of Woof with the mural]
  13. ^ "Selly Oak Park & Ride scheme". Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  14. ^ "Mural Trail". Made in Wellington.

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