Rosie Galloway-Smith
Carlisle, Cumbria
Rosie Galloway-Smith creates paintings, drawings, sculpture, and digital pieces that explore semiotics, materiality, femininity and identity.
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Born in England, and raised in Scotland and Cumbria where she currently resides, Rosie grew up in a family of twelve children and eccentric Roman Catholic parents. She completed her undergraduate Sculpture degree in Fine Art at The Queens Gardens campus of University of Humberside in 1996.
She has lived in Portugal, Barcelona, London and Windsor, Ontario, across from Detroit, and has supported her practice through art teaching after completing her PGCE in Secondary art at the Institute of Education, London.
in 2011 Rosie worked on the Nintendo Gold standard 3DS game Art Academy as a lesson creator.
Rosie completed the Mlitt in Painting at Glasgow School of Art in 2018. She has exhibited extensively in Cumbria and internationally and is currently a member of Upland Arts community in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
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Rosie Galloway-Smith is a mixed media artist who creates paintings, drawings, sculpture, and digital pieces that explore semiotics, materiality, femininity and identity.
She reimagines feminine desire past and present, with clothing, particularly dresses, being a central and reoccurring theme. She uses construction and household materials to emphasise the relationships clothes have with structure, and ultimately, dereliction. Her work plays with the history and meaning of different materials. Disintegration, fracturing and morphing continue to interest her, especially as a way to explore a surrealist psychotic disruption of signifiers and meaning.
The resultant pieces of art work incite an emotional and curious response, feeling recognisable yet unfamiliar at the same time. Altogether they form an ongoing personal enquiry into fragmented meaning and experience. Her work has been described as dark, curious, edgy, vibrant and texturally delicious.
Current works cross section this with research into Victorian industrial history in an attempt to make sense of where modern Britain finds itself.