'VISION QUESTS':
Content:
Over a 50 year period I have returned time and again to the subject of Ancient Myth focusing on the Classics and Celtic themes. A keen interest in the philosophy of Carl Jung has also underscored my visual art paractice of painting with a cyclical aspect which involves both the male/female aspect of my personality. This is what Jung calls the 'Anima' and 'Animus' and how this connects individuals to the 'architypes ' found in myths and fairytales.Working from these sources I access my core identity in the relation to the world today.The writer Helene Cixous has discussed this process in her work Dream I Tell You [2006].
Form:
I have used two dimensional abstract methods called stratigraphy to make my paintings. This process mimics a kind of geological layering using pigment and paper and collage.A final image emerges over a period of time which the viewer is invited to contemplate.... can a level of a level of liminality be reached? This is for the viewer to decide.
Summary:
Visually influenced by the Europen art work of Anselm Kiefer;Gerhard Richter and Mimmo Paladino, i aim to expand the current subject matter to include Celtic Myth:
The Mabinogion .
ROSE ROSE [ born: Rosemary Pearson]
EARLY EDUCATION
1946: Born London, Islington.
1952: Schools in Sussex [ST MARYS HALL/RHODEAN] and Middlesex SOUTHLANDS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
1962:City of Westminster College [A levels]
1965:L’Institut Britannique, PARIS
ART EDUCATION
1967- 1969: Ealing School of Art, UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON. DIPLOMA IN ART/DESIGN.
1971-1974: University of Exeter, DEVON. B.A.[HONS] FINE ART.
1997-1999: De Montfort University, LEICESTER. M.A. ART EDUCATION.
2000-2003: De Montfort University, LEICESTER.PHD. FINE ART PRACTICE.
ART LECTURING POSTS
1976-78: Sheffield Hallam University. Fine Art BA.
1978-1984: Sheffield City Art Galleris+ BRITISH ART SHOW /84.
1987-1992: Chesterfield College of Art, Derbyshire .Fine Art Foundation. [Full Time]
1997-2002: University of Sheffield.TILL: Visual Culyure Director.
2006-2007: Chesterfield College of Art. Fine Art Foundation.[Part Time]
2008. Sheffield Hallam University. Fine Art BA.[Part Time]
GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS:
1986: Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London. NEW ART.
1987: New Art in Yorkshire, LEEDS City Art Gallery.
1994: Wrexham Art Gallery, Clwydd, N.Wales: ‘HOMAGE’.
1996: BUCKS Gallery, New Haven , Conneticutt, USA. ‘NEW ART’.
1997: S1 STUDIOS, Sheffield in ‘SPECS’.
2009 - Butcher Works Art Exhibition, Sheffield.
2009 - Experimental ideas ., Rare and Racy, Sheffield
2010 - Artworks as Recent Work: Chesterfield College of Art, Chesterfield
2010 - 'Found!' Butcher Works, Sheffield
2010 - Leeds City Art Gallery- OPEN ART 2010, LEEDS CITY ART GALLERY, LEEDS
2010 - 'Not the Royal Acadamy', Llewellen Alexander Gallery., London
2011-'Diversity'. Galerie Ober Licht Saal . Sindelfinden. Stuttgart Germany.
2014-'Art in Culture' [Portrait of a Landscape] Tabernacle Gallery, Notting Hill, London.W11.
2017-2020: Paintings at 'The Yards' , Hunters Bar, Sheffield S 11 8PQ.
Main SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS:
1986;MAPPIN ART GALLERY, SHEFFIELD. ‘PRIMARY SOURCES’
1988: RUSKIN GALLERY, SHEFFIELD ‘EVOLVING HABITS’.
1992:LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY ‘EVOLVING HABITS’
2002:DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY, Leicester. ‘SOMA-SERIES’
2006: London Road Gallery, Sheffield. ‘ROUTES MANOEURVRING’.
2009: Hay Hill Gallery, Cork Street , Mayfair, London W1 ‘LINGA-FRANCA’.
2014: Tabernale Gallery, Notting Hill, London W 8.'LINES IN THE LANDSCAPE'.
2015: Shire Hall Gallery, STAFFORD:'SCAPES'.
ART in MAJOR COLLECTIONS:
Arts Council of England: Four Passages:Binary Fission. Purchased 1987.
Arts Council of England : for Sheffield City Art Galleries:
'Interior Rock and Roll' , [purchased 1986.
Six Private Collections: UK,Europe,USA.1987-2010.
Art Awards [A4E] Arts Council of England award of £4,500. 1997.Lo
[NB Location change : 2019 from Derbyshire to Pembrokeshire.]
