For thirty years, Susan Wood has maintained a studio practice rooted in the principles of observational drawing. Meticulously rendered in a variety of graphic techniques, often on sumptuously textured handmade papers, these works embody the idea of finitude, reflecting the poignancy of brief lives and the fragility of temporal existence. They have been presented in solo and group exhibitions, including Taxonomies (1999) and Florilegium (2003), where discussion of the works began within the frameworks of geography, museology and scientific illustration and broadened into an appreciation of their metaphoric potential. This retrospective presents works from the 1980s to today.