DIGITAL DETOX, a new solo exhibition from Rosie Woods

Digital Detox opens with a private view on Thursday 16 April 2026, 6–9pm. The exhibition runs until 3 May 2026. 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. Rosie Woods has long worked at the intersection of art and technology, embracing digital tools through VR murals, animated paintings and major commercial commissions. But this new body of work marks a deliberate shift. Here, there is no digital intermediary, no slickness of screen, no algorithmic polish- only paint, linen, gesture and observation. ‘Digital Detox’ has become both a personal recalibration for the artist and a wider reflection on what is lost when our experience of the world is increasingly flattened through devices.