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Issy Wood: Self-Portraits
9 October 2026 to 28 February 2027
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A free one-room display launching the Gallery's Artist Focus series, with Issy Wood's self-portraits since 2020 exploring identity, desire and consumer culture.
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Featuring three presentations each year, Artist Focus invites contemporary artists to explore portraiture's evolving role in art, society, and culture. This first presentation, Issy Wood: Self-Portraits showcases intimate self-portraits by British American artist Issy Wood (b. 1993). An artist, musician and writer, Wood examines intimacy, desire, consumer culture, and the complexities of contemporary identity in her varied output. Started in 2020, this series of self-...
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The Guardian
Eddy Frankel
Suffocatingly revealing works from the ultimate zillennial painter
"They’re weird, suffocating, intimate things, like you’ve been allowed into her weakest moments, like you’re interrupting her mid-weep. You feel like you have to back out of the gallery quietly to let her get on with it."
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