About

We are a artist duo, we make sculpture and sound. We are influenced by the environments we inhabit or encounter collectively, trapping various aspects of the past and present. We are interested in the context of sounds representation physically i.e. the same way as a score. Sounds we make include sampling, directly sourced from surroundings, with guitar, drums and some vocal elements to create a description of form.

We make sound in the same way as we make sculpture, with the same formal concerns. Taking an example of John Cage’s 4’33”, what interests us is the frame work, it has a beginning and a end, the piano lid opens and then closes. This framing of nothing ness is what we explore in our own work, negative space for us has the same physicality as the walls, the ceiling and the floor, it’s as tangible as clay.

Musically we create each piece as we would a sketch, starting with a basic structure, slowly building and editing until something forms that feels complete. The compositions are about balance, how one part sits next to another. We want the listener to feel immersed in a sonic landscape.

Paulgood.studio@gmail.com

Kirstylaurawood@hotmail.co.uk

CV

Solo shows:

Rest Your Palms Against The Skin, CLASSWAROOM, London, 2023
Stale Air in a Room, before Motion, SE8 Gallery, London, 2017
A gesture to ‘the other’, Lubomirov-Easton Gallery, London, 2013
To solidify a negative space, The Magnificent Basement, London, 2011
A Poor Kind of future, SHIFT. Gallery, London, 2010

Group shows:

In being double, PACE, New York, 2023
Tempest being shown in the Homerton short film festival, 2022.
Media Virality and the Lockdown Aesthetic in association with University of East London, 2020
Archway Sound Symposium, Five Years Galley, London, 2019
Lights out listening group, Superstition, Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, 2016
Lights out listening group, Shona Island, 2015
Exchange project, part tree, (Oblique Exchange) APT Gallery, London, 2013
Multiplied Art Fair, Hosted by Christies, London, 2013
JT Project, James Taylor Gallery, London, 2010
SUPERNORMAL Festival, Oxfordshire, UK, 2020
Five Years Gallery, London, 2010
Fault Line, Art in the Age of Anxiety, The Nunnery, London, 2009
A3 Hand Drawn and Quartered 8. Publication, 2009
P1 Launch, Bow arts Trust, London, 2009
The Red Painting, Gallery 52a, Regents Studios, London, 2009
Twelve steps down, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, 2009
Collection of Art Books, Transition Gallery, London, 2008
Nausea, Round Chapple, London, 2007

Performances:

SE8 Gallery, London, 2017
Fete worse than death, London, 2014
ARTLICKS Annual, ICA, London, 2012
LUPA, London, 2012
Acoustic sessions, Angus - Hughes Gallery, London, 2011
BATS II, Mile End Pavilion, London, 2011
Dead Sessions Live Art, Margate, 2010
SUPERNORMAL Festival, Oxfordshire, 2010
100 CLUB, London 2010
P1 Launch, Boe Arts Trust, London, 2009

Grants

Artist development grant, awarded by the British Arts Council, 2022.

Collections:

In Oscillation, SITE, online library of rhythms of resistance, 2020
‘Stale Air, in a Room, before Motion’ exhibition soundtrack, The British Sound Archive, The British Library, London, 2017
‘We are using your language to communicate’ debut album, The British Sound Archive, The British Library, London, 2016

Talks:

Wave Length, Resonance FM, 2017
Micro Talks, Sluice, Campbell Works, London, 2017
Diversity of Practice, Havering University, Essex, 2017
Critical Practice, University of Kent, 2015

Performances:

SE8 Gallery, London, 2017
Fete worse than death, London, 2014
ARTLICKS Annual, ICA, London, 2012
LUPA, London, 2012
Acoustic sessions, Angus - Hughes Gallery, London, 2011
BATS II, Mile End Pavilion, London, 2011
Dead Sessions Live Art, Margate, 2010
SUPERNORMAL Festival, Oxfordshire, 2010
100 CLUB, London 2010
P1 Launch, Boe Arts Trust, London, 2009

Publications:

Somewhere in the Nowhere, by Nicolas de Olivera and Nicola Oxley, 2017
Art Licks, 2015
Station Magazine, 2012
A3 Hand Drawn and Quartered 8. Publication, 2009

Residency:

Braziers Artist International Residency 2010