ROSIE EMERSON | THE WORK
STATEMENT
Rosie Emerson has always had a long-standing obsession with silhouettes and female iconography, drawing reference from archetypes old and new, from Artemis to the modern day super model. The works aim to both celebrate, and offer a mild critique on the depiction of women, and explore her wider feelings towards seduction, aesthetics, objectification and ‘spectacle’ all interwoven within figurative works of art. Inspired to ‘make real’ her drawings, her work has recently moved into photography, which has bought the work full circle from it’s roots in subverting fashion advertising using paint and collage.
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EDUCATION
2004 BA Honours in Fine Art. Kingston University, Surrey, 2:1
2001 Foundation Studies Bournemouth Arts Institute, Dorset
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2012
Vue Privee
2011
View Art, Bristol, UK
The Other Art Fair, London, UK
Liberty Gallery, AFF Hapstead
Alchemy, showing at Annoushka Jewellery, Debut Contemporary & Somerset House, London, UK (Solo show)
EXHIBITIONS
2011
Surreal Women, Guts for Garters, London, UK
MoMac Pop-Up - Roberta Moore, Gloucester, UK
Women of the World Festival, The Southbank Centre, London, UK
The Royal West of England, Photography Open, Bristol, UK
2010
The Spring, Hampshire, UK (Solo)
Hackney Wicked art festival Pop Up Gallery UK (Solo)
Sketch, London
Spectacle, The Smoke House Gallery, London
Metropolitan, London
2009
TKP Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Kunskog, Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, London
Grafuck 4, Gallery Nucleus, California, USA
Globe Gallery, Surrey UK
Turner and Thom, Eton, Windsor, UK
2008
Macmillan De’longi Art Auction, The Avenue, London
Saltburn Art Projects, Cleveland, UK
Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
Mile End Arts Pavilion, London.
Re-use, Derelict building in Tel Aviv, Israel
2007
The Arts Club, ‘Macmillan De’longi Art Auction, London
One-Minute Film Festival, Aarau, Switzland
Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire,UK
Paintworks, Bristol, UK
2006
The Study Gallery, Poole, UK
The Shotgun Gallery, Dorset, UK
2004
Candid Art Gallery, Angel, London
291 Gallery, London.
The New Inn Yard Gallery, London
COMMISSIONS
2010
Album cover, Concept and Art direction for Fiona Bevan
Art Consultant, The Smoke House Gallery, London
Red Bull Fashion Factory, Live art collaboration with costume designer Petra Storrs, as part of London Fashion Weeks
2009 P&O Cruises, 15 large scale commissioned works
Designers Block, commissioned mural
Triumph Underwear, 14 Artworks used in billboard campaign
Sony, Scenic painter for X Factor album cover
PRESS & PUBLICATION
2011
Harpers Bazaar
2010
20 x 20 Magazine
The Independent
BBC London news, Interview
2009
Grafuck 4, International Art book
Platform 58, Art publication
Station Magazine, Artist Interview
The Independent
In London Magazine, Editorial
The London Paper, review
Daily Candy, review
2008
Time Out
Ad Lib Magazine, Editorial
The New Londoners
2007
BBC Radio London, Artist Interview
Muse Magazine, Editorial
The Big Issue, Exhibition Review
2005
Radio Solent, Artist Interview