Rosie Galloway-Smith

Rosie Galloway-Smith is a mixed media artist who creates paintings, drawings, sculpture, and digital pieces that explore semiotics, materiality, femininity and fractured identity.
Rosie completed the Mlitt Fine Art Painting at Glasgow School of Art in 2018. She has exhibited extensively in Cumbria and internationally. News and updates can be found on her Instagram page, .
Recent public commissions include an installation of a washing line at Blackwell, the arts and crafts house in Cumbria, UK that was based on the county’s experiences of covid (Class, Covid, and Cumbria), and a piece called ‘Tangled Threads’ for Artful Ways Cumbria which looked at Carlisle’s relationship through cotton to the enslavement of people in Southern USA states.
Clothing, particularly dresses, are a central and reoccurring theme, alongside other found objects. She sometimes uses construction and household materials to emphasise the relationships clothes have with structure, and ultimately, dereliction and 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 and through these means, mak...

MLitt Fine Art Practice (Painting) 2018 Glasgow School of Art
BA(hons) Fine Art 1996 Hull School of Art
PGCE Secondary Art and Design Education 2003 University of London.

SOLO SHOWS
February - August 2024 - exhibition and talk as part of Studio Morland’s Critical Thinkers series.
July 2018 - Vallum Gallery, University of Cumbria, Carlisle
March 2018 - Tracing Materiality, Glasgow School of Art. With curator Anna Clark.
September 2009 - Sentimental Arithmetic - Pastels, Foxes Lounge, Carlisle
July 2009 - Ghosts of St Aidan’s - Photographic Interactive Exhibition, Carlisle
November 2006 - Telling Tales – Pastels, The Artfinder's Gallery, Liverpool
January -March 2001 - Untitled – Acrylic Paintings, Ribborn, El Born, Barcelona

GROUP SHOWS
June to September 2023 Gallery Northwest
November 2021- 2022 - Class, Covid and Cumbria- awarded £10000 commission to express the Cumbrian experience of the Covid Crisis: weathering the storm.Group show alongside Grayson Perry and 2 other artists.
Artful Ways Cumbria
Autumn 2021: Tullie House, Carlisle
Spring 2022: The Studio Morland, Eden Valley
Summer 2022: Florence Arts Centre, Copeland
- one of 5 commissioned artists. Piece completed: Tangled Threads
September 2018 - Graduate Degree Show Glasgow School of Art
March 2018 - Close By Trongate, Glasgow.
February 2017 - September 2017 - Maris Gallery, Crofton Nr Carlisle
February 2017 - Retrospective - 21 years...