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GRACE WOOD                                                                                               

ISBN:  978-0-6482588-4-1

‘The hand of an armless statue’ features 55 newly created artworks and continues Grace Wood’s compulsive practice of mining the internet for images, recontextualising them and giving them new meaning. Wood throws images and words into search engines and what is spat out is collected, altered and repurposed – the process itself speaks of the paradox of connectivity afforded by the internet, where isolated images can be at once linked by a hashtag or the embedded text of their uploader.

The collaged images in the book trace accidental similarities between instantly recognizable artworks, their legacies, their makers, and consumers. It looks at the way an easily discernible artwork can be repurposed and commercialised.

Cover_ 'The Hand of an Armless Statue' _ Grace Wood copy

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Grace Wood: The hand of an armless statue
Published by M.33, Melbourne, 2022
Essay: Kiron Robinson
265 x 195mm
94 Pages
Swiss bound soft cover
Edition of 100

$31.82 plus gst

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