We are delighted to present four new monoprints and recent collages by Clare Woods.
New monotypes and recent collages by Woods, featuring interiors, still life, landscape and portraiture, depict a time of mass image consumption and a world that treats banality and disaster in the same way.
Drawing inspiration from photographs found from diverse sources such as books, magazines, the internet and the artist’s own images, Woods is preoccupied with the human body and its environment. She reinterprets the found imagery, cropping or repositioning the subjects so that they begin to teeter on the edge of legibility and figuration. Having initially trained as a sculptor, Woods’ understanding of sculptural forms underpin her pictorial work.
The new works in this Online Viewing Room explore the themes of fragility, mortality and otherness; the delicate borders that exist between sickness and health, cruelty and humanity, and life and death.