We are all, in some way, trying to find our way back. Back to the tactile. Back to the unhurried. Back to the thing in front of us. Rosie Woods got there first.

Born into the age of the internet, Woods has spent over a decade building a practice that runs on technology -- VR murals, animated paintings, 3D-modelled canvases, commissions for Meta, Nike, Red Bull. She understands that world better than most. Which is precisely why she walked away from it. 'Digital Detox' is the body of work that followed.

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Two bodies of work share the walls. The first: large-scale botanical paintings on raw, unprimed linen -- individual leaves rendered with extraordinary care and a luminous, shifting gold. Monstera. Maple. Alocasia. Plants we pass without thinking, elevated here to something close to sacred. The gold is not decorative. It is attentive. It moves from amber to bronze to pale cream, following the particular architecture of each leaf as only a painted hand can follow it.

The second series moves in the opposite direction. Loose, open abstracts -- soft purples dissolving into green, blush into mist, colour responding to colour without plan or geometry. Where the botanical works demand close looking, these ask for something else: presence without focus, the way you feel standing in a garden without naming what you see.

Together, the two series articulate what the screen cannot. Not just the detail of the natural world, but its atmosphere. Not just how things look, but how they feel to be near.

"This series is an exploration of the physical, the tactile, and the profoundly human. A reminder to breathe, to look, and to simply be -- even if just for a minute."
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'Digital Detox' is not a rejection. It is a recalibration. The work of an artist who knows exactly what she is stepping away from -- and why.

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Rosie Woods has spent over a decade painting large-scale murals across the globe, recognised in Diego Lopez's 'Street Art by Women' as one of 50 essential contemporary artists. Meta commissioned her most recent major work -- an augmented reality mural at their Silicon Valley headquarters. Her murals have featured at international art festivals and in major publications worldwide, with collaborations including Nike and Red Bull. Raised in London, she splits her time between Australia and the UK. 'Digital Detox' is her most personal series to date.

Join us for the private view of 'Digital Detox' on Thursday 16 April, from 6-9pm.

The show runs from 16 April to 3 May 2026.
Opening night refreshments generously provided by our friends at Jubel Beer.