Grace Wood

Naarm, Wurundjeri land (Melbourne VIC)

Grace Wood is a visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work centres on the archive, mythologies, and the nature of contemporary photography. Often working with personal and institutional collections, she examines how images shift in meaning across time and context, using layering, text, and generative processes to create poetic and fragmentary visual narratives. Drawing on found photographs, internet ephemera, and everyday snapshots, she reshapes and re-contextualises visual material to explore image authorship, power, and circulation. Wood creates immersive installations using materials such as fabric, wood, vinyl, carpet, and paper. Whether printing photographs onto textiles, embedding vinyl onto gallery walls, or transforming digital images into wearable objects, the result prompts tactile and spatial encounters with the photographic image.

Recent exhibitions include A garden is a mother at Heide Museum of Modern Art (2025), Healing: art, therapy and institutional care at La Trobe Art Institute (2025), Soft Bodies at Lon Gallery for PHOTO 2024, Permanent Palimpsest at Bundoora Homestead (2024), and Afterimage in Built Photography at the Museum of Australian Photography (2024). In 2023, she was commissioned to create a new suite of works for Melbourne Now at the NGV, and presented Two Facing Mirrors, a large-scale installation for the City of Melbourne.