Ros Cuthbert

“Splendid, witty, naughty, fine work” – gallery visitor

I am a visual artist, also a jazz singer and songwriter.
I have work in private collections worldwide, also in public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Art Collection and the Contemporary Art Society.
My portrait of Leonard Cheshire and Sue Ryder is to be the centrepiece of a reception at the National Portrait Gallery this September to celebrate the Centenary of Leonard Cheshire’s birth.

ABOUT MY CURRENT WORK
I combine collage and paint to generate ideas and use dolls as my models or actors. My work can be planned or unpremeditated, theatrical, playful or serious.
Making art from discarded stuff, giving it a new and poetic function alongside paint and drawing materials is an immense pleasure, an adventure.
I like the way collage can inject energy, bite, humour and instability to both process and result.

I studied painting at:
Central School of Art and Design, London 1971-74
Royal College of Art 1974-77

Selected solo exhibitions:
2017 Heritage Courtyard Studios, Wells – Voyage to Cythera –Paintings 1977-2017
2015-6 Royal West of England Lower Gallery –recent mixed media collage paintings
2012 The Tobacco Factory, Bristol - New Figurative Paintings
2009 Sidcot Arts Centre, Winscombe - 'Portrait Retrospective ' - paintings
2005 New Gallery, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - 'The Great River' - paintings
1999/96 Atelier 25, Chinon, France – Paintings
1995 Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath – Paintings
1989 Camden Galleries, London: “Wounds & Balm” – Paintings & Prints

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017/16/14/12/09 Bath Society of Artists, Annual Open Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2017-1995 Royal West of England Academy: Annual Exhibition
2017-2008 St Ives Society of Artists Members' Exhibition
2013 RWA 'Drawn' - open submission drawing exhibition
2010 LeFort Fine Art, Bath - 'RWA Women Painters'
2008 The Gallery, Willesden Green, London - Cecil Collins Centenary Exhibition
2008 Sadler Street Gallery, Wells, Somerset - Between Sea & Land
2007 South West Academy, Open Exhibition Clifford
2003 6 Chapel Row Contemporary...