This beautiful book follows Clare Woods’ previous monograph Strange Meetings. (This link opens in a new tab)., published by Art / Books in 2016. It presents the artist’s most important paintings of the past decade, as well as the many prints and collages that have grown out of her painting practice in recent years. Critic and art historian Charlotte Mullins writes a lively and accessible introduction to the artist’s work and discusses some of its precedents and influences from art history, while psychoanalyst Darian Leader considers the psychological roots of her practice. Writer Ela Bittencourt completes the volume with a text that examines the push-and-pull between familiarity and alienation, knowability and ambiguity, that characterises Woods’ alluring, seductive, and powerful works.