"Her paintings, from small and pocketable to a mighty two-metre-high and made on velvet, are unsettling and sometimes unfathomable. Accretions of objects — dinner services, shoes, china rabbits, false nails — elide with close-ups of puffa jackets, art-historical nudes, medieval armour, ancient statuary. The colours are muted, dark and drained. “Not everything has to be brightly coloured to work,” says Wood. “Goya taught me how to use black properly. Courbet taught me about flesh, and clothing."i
—Caroline Roux