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Grace Wood

@grace_____wood

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Artist in Narrm
Represented by @longallery
Working at @artsprojectaust

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I have a little beady work in the @seventhgallery fundraiser opening tomorrow. Buy art, support artists x taken in Seventh Gallery by @grace_____wood

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Come and collage with me 🌸🌷🪷 there are still a few spots left for my workshop next Sunday! Can’t wait to be a part of this special day at @maph_photography 📷 taken in MAPh - Museum of Australian Photography by @grace_____wood

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I made Petal as Pixel thinking about the point at which beauty becomes violence. When abundance tips into excess, and something seductive becomes suffocating.

I didn’t know, when I was making it, that I was also approaching the end of my own experience of domestic violence.

Coming back to the work now, on the other side of leaving, feels different. Installing it myself, on my own terms, with no one telling me how it should be done or making me doubt my decisions, has felt so special.

A work that began with suffocation, now given space to move freely. It feels good to see it differently. So grateful to MAPh for giving me this chance. by @grace_____wood

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Grace Wood’s ‘Petal as Pixel’ at LON Gallery takes Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s ‘The Roses of Heliogabalus’ (1888), a painting of guests being smothered beneath an avalanche of rose petals, and reimagines it for the digital age.

Suspended from the ceiling, hundreds of rose-gold mirrored panels drift like falling petals frozen in mid-air. As they slowly rotate, they reveal collaged photographs sourced from the internet: bouquets, beauty products, celebrities, fragments of bodies, fashion imagery, museum sculptures, roses upon roses upon roses. On the other side, rose-gold mirrored acrylic surfaces create reflections that multiply endlessly. Your reflection joins the endless circulation of pictures, consumption, and desire: images that are manufactured, replicated, altered, shared, and absorbed until their original meaning becomes impossible to locate.

There is a tension between attraction and excess. The colour pink dominates, carrying associations of love, femininity, luxury, softness, desire, and beauty. Yet Wood pushes these associations to a point where they become overwhelming, almost claustrophobic. The works seduce while simultaneously exhausting the viewer.

Along one wall, twelve mixed-media works partially obscure Alma-Tadema’s painting. Layers of flowers, sequins, resin, copper wire, found imagery, and photographic fragments perform a kind of visual burial. The original painting repeatedly disappears beneath new images, mirroring how contemporary culture continually overwrites itself. Drawing on Rachel Ruysch’s floral still lifes and fashion imagery, Wood allows flowers to multiply across the surface until beauty becomes recursive — images feeding upon images.

Wood repeatedly returns to the uneasy relationship between beauty and violence. Alma-Tadema’s painting depicts an act of lethal excess disguised as luxury. Wood extends this idea into the present, suggesting that contemporary image culture operates in a similar way. The endless stream of beautiful pictures appears harmless, even pleasurable, yet its sheer abundance can overwhelm, distract, and obscure reality.

@longallery @grace_____wood

#luminosa #luminosaartsscene #longallery #contemparyart taken in LON Gallery by @grace_____wood

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“For Petal as Pixel, Wood has spliced and collaged the images digitally, originally sourced from internet searches of the term ‘rose’. Typically associated with love, prestige, and purity, Wood is indiscriminate in her selection. Not all the source images or collages are standardly beautiful, many allude to the absurd. Visual flickers of rosacea and beauty products are embroiled with rose coloured objects, decorations and high fashion, all steeped in sickly sweet composites of pink.” - Nikita Holcombe

To request a catalogue of works from ‘Petal as Pixel’, along with Nikita Holcombe’s excellent text, please contact the gallery via email or DM.

Image:
‘Petal as Pixel’, 2026
Digital print, mirrored acrylic, jewellery chain, aluminium

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@nikitaholcombe by @grace_____wood

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4 months ago

Night time moments in Petal as Pixel --- including:

Me floating in a sea of pink mirrors
Dimensions variable

Julia II
UV stabilized ink, vinyl, safety glass
20 X 30.5 X 0.6 cm

Rachel Ruysch II
Inkjet print, buttons, cotton thread, Epoxy resin, polyurethane
UV-stabilized ink, vinyl, safety glass
20 X 30 X 1 cm

@longallery by @grace_____wood

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4 months ago

Grace Wood’s, ‘Petal as Pixel’ continues at the gallery until June 27. Visit Wed-Fri 12-5pm to see this stunning installation. by @grace_____wood

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4 months ago

My show Petal as Pixel continues this week 🌷

Take a selfie for me @longallery - its been amazing getting all your feedback, I'm so overwhelmed with gratitude people are actually experiencing the works.

Okay love ya 🌸💗🎀🍥💓 taken in LON Gallery by @grace_____wood

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Okay so I tried to take a photo of each of the collage works in my mobile to count how many there are. It said 112 which sounds like too many? but maybe it's right? Anyway, here are some of my favourites.

Stop by @longallery this weekend and maybe try and count them for me 🥲

Petal as Pixel
30 May - 27 June
Lon Gallery
Wed-Sat 12-5pm taken in LON Gallery by @grace_____wood

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"Once, a boy who dated Gigi Hadid sent her such a massive bouquet of roses for her birthday that the flowers almost crushed the delivery man. Hadid outdid him by literally dressing like a human-size bouquet. It was designer Jeremy Scott's vision for the finale of his Moschino spring 2018 show in Milan” (Elle Fashion Mag, 2017)

The Roses of Heliogabalus is a famous oil painting by Anglo-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the notorious Roman Emperor smothering unsuspecting dinner guests with an avalanche of falling rose petals (1888)

Jeremy
2026
UV stabilised ink on aluminium composite panel
24 X 32 X 0.5 cm

As part of 'Petal as Pixel' continuing this week @longallery taken in LON Gallery by @grace_____wood

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5 months ago

So overwhlemed by all the love on saturday night ❣

Grateful to you all, my amazing friends, art heroes and chosen family for making it so special. Having people really look at the work and like it and tell you they like it is so cool.

I didn't take a single pic at the opening but Machiko @melonandwater got this of my gang hiding amongst the roses 🌹 and Tim took this of me sleepy but happy Sunday morning holding my bouquets from @shannon_lyons @davidattwood @m_____c_________ @samarara @badjuju_______ @savvyv ❤️ by @grace_____wood

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Petal as Pixel is opening today 4-6pm @longallery 🌸🌸🌸

You gotta walk in it and around it and through it, and poke it and make it move and look into it and look out of it. I think this is my most elusive work, I promise you won't ever see it all. There are about 100 works in this show, over 1000 images of roses cut up into them.

The mobile is made of mirrored perspex, c prints, rose gold and silver chains, wire, aluminium and chrome poles, balance, luck, gravity, etc

Come see 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 taken in LON Gallery by @grace_____wood

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