As large language models and AI software chew up all kinds of copyrighted imagery to spit out pictures on demand, the work of the Melbourne-based artist Grace Wood feels like a tonic. For her latest installation at the Heide Museum, Wood has drawn on open-source images and family archives – including art and photographs by her late grandmother – to explore the theme of nurturing, particularly in a maternal context (26 July–15 November). Playfully incorporating elements of mythology and art history in her personal collages, Wood encourages us to think about mothering through the centuries and how it has often been appreciated by artists even as it is sometimes undervalued by the wider world.
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