Digital Detox: Rosie Woods

What does it mean to make something slow in a world that rewards speed? To look properly at a leaf, a surface, shifting colour, when so much of modern life is designed to keep us scrolling?‘Digital Detox’, the new solo show by Rosie Woods, turns away from the screen and back towards the physical world - not as an act of nostalgia or rejection, but as a way of reasserting the value of attention, tactility and presence.

In an age of acceleration, the exhibition asks us to pause.

To notice.

To reconnect with the textures, rhythms and imperfections of the natural world, and with the profoundly human act of making by hand.The exhibition unfolds through two connected bodies of work.

The first is a series of botanical paintings: individual leaves that glow gold on raw, unprimed linen.

Monstera, maple and Alocasia - familiar forms often overlooked in daily life - are given scale and reverence with an intimate observation that is almost devotional.Alongside these are a series of looser, atmospheric abstract works that feel like landscapes filtered through memory rather than direct representation.

Soft purples and moss greens are worked into blush and yellow tones in an instinctual way.

If the botanical works ask the viewer to look closely, these paintings ask them to exhale - to drift, feel and settle into the atmosphere.