Meet painter Rosanna Dean
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It is time to meet runner up of Secret Art Prize 2014 Rosanna Dean!
You can see Dean's work on show this September, details here.
Discipline: Painting
Age: 26
Where do you live?: Stoke Newington
Where did you study?: Camberwell and Parsons Paris
Life ambition?: To make positive changes.
What can you tell us about your artistic practice?
My practice is grounded in the body and combines my interest in Buddhist thought and traditional European painting. The work is specifically concerned with exploring Western society’s resistance to acknowledging the impermanence of the body. This study also led me to writing on the history of the ‘Grotesque’ in art and its positive role as a vehicle for progress and harmony.
The bodies I paint are in their most unsettling state, corrupted and ambiguous they signify human materiality, however the work’s aesthetic is composed in such a way that instinctive feelings of repulsion are subverted, instead I construct a sense of calm that emanates from the work with the intention to dissolve taboos that surround it.
The imagery is sourced from forensic and scientific archives, photographs of those around me, and sections of paintings from art history. The nature of the photograph interests me as it plays with a sense of time. These images are selected for their ambiguity and textural sensibilities that despite their subject matter are aesthetically very beautiful. These images I then transforms through mirroring, rotation and layering to create collages based on universal patterns in nature and spiritual art. This use of geometry also reflects the human inclination, especially at times of trauma, to look for patterns in the world around us
to process and make sense of it.
What does the Secret Art Prize mean to you?
It means working with good people and developing good relationships.
Choose one word:
I can't do this my whole practice is based on dissolving categories…
Grotesque or beautiful?
Urban or surreal?
Planned or spontaneous?
Monochrome or rainbow?
Thanks Rosanna!
Private View Thursday 4th September 6-9pm
4th - 27th September
Curious Duke Gallery
173 Curious Duke Gallery
London
EC1Y 8JT
RSVP to [email protected]