Personal Statement

Rosie's work seeks to subvert environments, which fail to meet our needs for the stability, security and spiritual fulfilment we crave. Buildings where we live and work and the landscapes we navigate daily and routinely, are revealed as alien and inhospitable; making obvious the struggle which faces us as we attempt to confront and negotiate the unrelenting brutality of such environments, and the alienating and de humanizing impact it must have on us.

Part photograph, part painting, Rosie's work shows glimpses of realities that slip in and out of focus alluding to the confusion of our lives. One minute we feel we have attained some certainty of who we are or where we are going, the next that certainty has gone and we are left floundering and spiritually empty again.

Floating tower blocks which crumble at their foundations on a sterile white canvas, or roads and bridges without destinations which seem to hover in a state of stasis over shifting ground and unstable surfaces of lurid unnatural colour shape and form, and splashes of florescent paint on the trees, symbolize this strange world where superficially, things seem safe, but something threatening, alien and unsettling. It is in reality a bleak and lonely world where there is little to offer the individual but a felt sense of absence, vulnerability and isolation.