I am Caitlyn Wood, an art student at West Lothian College studying an HNC in Contemporary Art Practice. I take pride in my work and enjoy exploring new ways of working as well as researching valuable information to fuel my practice.  

Within my current practice am working with a plethora of art making methods to create digital, text, collaborative, ready-made, textile, augmented reality, collage, observational, developmental, assemblage, installation, moving image and sound-based artworks. 

My work centres itself around themes of capitalism and consumerism as this is a theme which I have made my own due to my strong, personal feelings about this subject matter.  

I am currently looking at the negative aspects of consumerism and the effect capitalism plays on today's society and future generations, as well as our constant bombardment with products and advertisements to ‘make our lives better’. 

As I am currently a college student, I am in frequent receipt of 2-week projects- these projects consist of prompt words, with which I then research, develop, and produce work in line with the prompt and my chosen theme. These allow me to generate works in a more conceptual, experimental and exploratory way. Some of these projects continue to influence the way I work as I carry them into further projects and developments. I particularly enjoy working with textiles, digital art forms, ready-mades, and 3D text.  

Although I am given prompt words by my lecturer to develop my work, these are not prescribed projects and all my work is original and my own.  

A selection of the prompts I have been provided with so far have sparked works that have become turning point for some of my practice such as collaboration, artwork a day and text.