Rex Wood (6 April 1906 – 1970) was a South Australian pre and post-war artist who lived for many years in Portugal.
Their grandfather Thomas Percy Wood, also an Anglican minister in South Australia, was an accomplished watercolorist.
[9] Wood grew up at Laura and then Currency Creek where his father became the minister at the English Church at Finniss.
[10] He studied painting at the South Australian School of Art[11][12] under Mary Packer Harris (1891–1978), and was soon recognised as a realist in a variety of mediums.
[citation needed][13] In 1932 he won a prize for a holiday poster and in 1934 he won equal first prize in the Elizabeth Armstrong Memorial for Still Life Painting at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts[14][15] Rex Wood was an Associate member of the South Australian Society of Arts (SASA later the Royal South Australian Society of Arts) from 1932 until 1939.