Tod’s work explores the materiality of paint in a period of digital image circulation, with its accelerating speeds of transmission and shared simultaneous attention deficit. Her work negotiates this shift through stillness and ambiguity; peripheral events, fleeting moments, and chance encounters are brought to the centre and visual fragments taken from the internet, TV, and art history are playfully recombined and erased.

Layers of transparent glazes are assiduously built up to create a shallow depth of field that replicates
the luminosity of the screen. Here, figurative and non-figurative elements meet, collide, and are altered by each other. Fluctuating areas of colour and bodies of paint are expanded and foregrounded. Ambiguity invites us to speculate, to create meaning playfully, offering a counterpoint to the directed and surveilled nature of our digital lives.