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Issy Wood: Self-Portraits review – suffocatingly revealing works from the ultimate zillennial painter
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National Portrait Gallery, London These close-cropped paintings seem to capture our own bored, glum and perpetually online lives – yet there’s humour and silliness, too, in among the masks It might feel like Issy Wood is staring right back at you, glaring out of every canvas, making hard, uncomfortable, unflinching…
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