'In Rosalind Davis' mixed media painting, one finds the power and presence of seemingly barren urban landscapes. Their historical, social and political backgrounds are sutured into architectural dimensions. Rosalind's stitches and brushstrokes repair and give substance, providing scaffolding to what lies beneath and within structural urban design. The environments she represents are but support structures, as the artist envisions the identities and the human experiences that animate the edifices.'
Becky Hunter
Meticulous stitches and brushstrokes seek to transform and repair the failing of modernity. The work is an examination, a documentation of the ideals of utopia and dystopia, of human experience and a reflection on the socio-political aspects of these urban developments and disintegration.
‘ The environments she represents are but support structures, as the artist envisions the identities and the human experiences that animate the edifices; their spatial compression and otherwordliness, their conceptual meshing of the social disused or run-down buildings are mended and/or supported through stitching, as well as being somewhat transformed when their painted surfaces melt into, soak and stain the meticulously printed backdrop.’ Becky Hunter
The textiles not only provide cultural and historical links to the eras of the buildings but equally emphasize the fragility of the spaces, the people therein and the disconcerting juxtaposition between aesthetics and meaning.
Rosalind Davis is a graduate from the RCA (2005) and Chelsea College of Art (2003) She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including Salon 08, The Clare Morris Open, the Grieve and Samaritans Art Prize, Fringe MK Painting Prize, the New Cross Art Prize and had solo shows at Julian Hartnoll, Salon Projects, John Jones, Deptford X and The Residence Gallery.
Born England, 1980.
Becky Hunter
Meticulous stitches and brushstrokes seek to transform and repair the failing of modernity. The work is an examination, a documentation of the ideals of utopia and dystopia, of human experience and a reflection on the socio-political aspects of these urban developments and disintegration.
‘ The environments she represents are but support structures, as the artist envisions the identities and the human experiences that animate the edifices; their spatial compression and otherwordliness, their conceptual meshing of the social disused or run-down buildings are mended and/or supported through stitching, as well as being somewhat transformed when their painted surfaces melt into, soak and stain the meticulously printed backdrop.’ Becky Hunter
The textiles not only provide cultural and historical links to the eras of the buildings but equally emphasize the fragility of the spaces, the people therein and the disconcerting juxtaposition between aesthetics and meaning.
Rosalind Davis is a graduate from the RCA (2005) and Chelsea College of Art (2003) She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including Salon 08, The Clare Morris Open, the Grieve and Samaritans Art Prize, Fringe MK Painting Prize, the New Cross Art Prize and had solo shows at Julian Hartnoll, Salon Projects, John Jones, Deptford X and The Residence Gallery.
Born England, 1980.