Rosie Reed
Rosie Reed
Bio
Rosie graduated with a BA from The Ruskin School of Art in 2013 and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2017. Recent exhibitions include 'What the Water Gave Me', a solo show at Quench Gallery and '(Dis)embodied Burdens', a group show at Cooke Latham Gallery.
Whilst I often refer to groundbreaking women artists- such as Lynda Benglis and Ana Mendieta, I strive to communicate my thoughts and experiences as a woman through my own material and sculptural language. As a starting point, I am interested in exploring women’s relationships to commonplace states of being; recent bodies of work have considered women and water, becoming a mother, women and messiness and women artists and anxiety. My making process is one of appreciating conceptual and formal rigour but subverting or interrupting accepted tropes and motifs. I experiment with colour combinations and materials to push my practice into an area of abstraction that takes up space and aims to immerse the viewer. I am interested in the notion of surfaces disclosing narrative, revealing tiers of time and movement. The work becomes a fossilised relic of layers, once it is finished. The cyclical use and reincarnation of material is important to me, I grind down and recycle elements of past installations to use as aggregate that makes up details of future work; rubbled remnants move through my practice as it evolves.
Selected Works











Framed photograph, 29 x 35 cm, 2022

Framed photograph, 29 x 35 cm, 2022

Framed photograph, 29 x 35 cm, 2022

Installation detail. Jesmonite, plaster & pigment, dimensions variable, 2022

Self-portrait at 6 months pregnant, 32 x 43 cm, 2020

Bronze, latex, paint, pigment & eco-glitter, 140 x 14 x 21cm, 2020

Pencil & red wine on paper, 40 x 49 cm, 2020

Pencil & make-up on paper, 40 x 49cm, 2020

Clay, plaster, pigment, eco-glitter, earrings, polyurethane foam & studio bucket, 215 x 120cm, 2020

Clay, plaster, pigment, paint, eco-glitter, earrings, polyurethane foam & studio bucket, 220 x 150cm, 2020

Detail. Clay, plaster, pigment, paint, eco-glitter & earrings, 2020


Jesmonite, clay, paint, pigment, eco-glitter, past work aggregate, polyurethane foam, sun glasses, earrings, tangle teezer, maternity bra, nappy, toy soldiers, toy cup & selfies, 180 x 24 x 35 cm, 2022

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