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Artist Statement for Rosie Rainbow
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Artist’s Statement
Rosie Rainbow
I've been working on this since I was a child, mediating the world with image, form and colour, I have continued to work through births and deaths, horror and laughter and the knowledge that painting is dead.
I paint my perception of experience contextualised by my environment - from my brain to yours - from my body to yours - echoing the mucous of humanity - creating dimensions - both vibrant and drab – excavating colour and form on canvas and wood using oils and mixed media.
As a child I discovered boundaries and dark hidden nooks, woodlands and rubbish dumps which used to be rich with rank rotting smells and layered textural wonderlands to be manipulated in order to construct more messages in response to that entity that was communicating with me.
Patterns from stone, holly leaf and ivy, petals, daisies, thistles. Endless material organized within damp earth or watery backgrounds were communications with life itself. As time goes on I remember observing fascinated, again and again, the dark coming, from the safety of a high wall.
Painting is addictive and when I can I encourage others to indulge, they seem to blossom, this has given me increased confidence as a teacher. I delight in the work produced by children.
I sometimes think of the process of my work as Punk, pushing boundaries, trying to come to terms with itself. I interrogate the figurative and the abstract. I play with the intensity, subtlety and drabness of colour and texture. I try to feel justified in my quest for my own visual language.
Bio / Resumee / Statement:
Rosie Rainbow. Master of Arts
BA Combined Honours in English and Fine Art
MA Critical Theory
Exhibitions
At Home 2007
Town Hall Exhibition. November 2005
Reflective/reflesive
Exeter Pheonix, Gallery Cafe. November/December 2004
About Time, Global Village. Exeter. April 97.
One Woman Show
An Exploration of Space from Four Sources, Exeter Art Centre. August 96.
Interactive Collaborative Exhibition
From the Body, Exeter Art Centre, June 95.
One Woman Show
Fresh Art, Fine Art Degree Fair, Business Design Centre. London. 1994
Exhibition of Unknown Artists
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