Rosie Rainbow

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I was born, Agnes Margaret Rosemary Fraser, in Inverness Scotland, I changed my name in 1982Artists StatementRosie RainbowI've been working on this since I was a child, mediating the world with image, form and colour, I have continued to work through births and deaths, horror and laughter and the knowledge that painting is dead. I paint my perception of experience contextualised by my environment - from my brain to yours - from my body to yours - echoing the mucous of humanity - creating dimensions - both vibrant and drab excavating colour and form on canvas and wood using oils and mixed media.As a child I discovered boundaries and dark hidden nooks, woodlands and rubbish dumps which used to be rich with rank rotting smells and layered textural wonderlands to be manipulated in order to construct a reflection of the feelings I was encountering. Patterns from stone, holly leaf and ivy, petals, daisies, thistles. Endless material organized within damp earth or watery backgrounds were communications with life itself. As time goes on I remember observing fascinated, again and again, the dark coming, from the safety of a high wall.Painting is addic...

BA Combined Honours in English and Fine Art
MA Critical Theory

Exhibitions

At HOME 2008

Town Hall Exhibition. November 2005
Reflective/reflesive
Exeter Pheonix, Gallery Cafe. November/December 2004

About Time, Global Village. Exeter. April 97.
One Woman Show

An Exploration of Space from Four Sources, Exeter Art Centre. August 96.
Interactive Collaborative Exhibition

From the Body, Exeter Art Centre, June 95.
One Woman Show

Fresh Art, Fine Art Degree Fair, Business Design Centre. London. 1994
Exhibition of Unknown Artists



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