Lot 132 - Rosemary Burn - Phone On a Postcard

ARTIST INFO

About 

Part of my intention is to make unusual the usual; the everyday visual experiences which we all encounter and mostly dismiss as unimportant, not worth a second glance. The works are crafted from moments; those snippets of time from which I can find a story in the background, such as a dripping bath tap and the light carried in the ripples, a fly on the wall, the fleeting expression on a face, a nameless place. For me, these happenings underpin our existence; big events, highs and lows, come and go but the insignificant and fleeting remain and repeat, like a constant hum in the background. The nature of each brushstroke, and the texture of the paint also play an important part in the translation of the seen, into a blurring between the representational and the semi abstract, the patterns which often escape our notice. I work every day searching for an alchemy between paint, subject and moment. When I studied at Chelsea School of Art, I was making sculpture, but the intention behind the work was similar. Works from those times include a bicycle abandoned on its side with its back wheel perpetually turning, so the scene of an accident was kept alive for an infinite length of time, a remote-controlled leg of lamb, a huge flying saucepan which had come to rest skewered by the sword of a swordfish held upright by a fisherman (both plaster casts). Although my life is a busy one with many commitments - I am also a classical pianist, (and I teach the piano and violin), not being creative in some way every day has never been possible for me. I love every minute! 

Education 

Chelsea School of Art MA 

Trinity College of Music LTCL piano (performer) 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

2023 
Art Gemini Prize finalist 
SWLA 60th anniversary exhibition, Mall Galleries London
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 
Anniversary 10x10 ArtCan, Hansard Studio, London 
Chroma 2 Artcan, America Square Conference Centre, London
The Power of Pencil, Artcan 10th anniversary exhibition 
Figurative Art spring exhibition, Open Gallery Halifax 
Artists on the Rise, exhibitions and online auctions, curated by Chinwe Russell Art Gallery  
 
2022 
Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries London 
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral 
Paris International Art Fair 
Artexpo, New Yotk 
Contemporary Art Masters Virtual Art Fair 
Van Gogh Gallery, Madrid 
 
2021
Figurative Art Now, The Federation of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London 
Gallery representation, Tom Zaw Fine Art, Hoddesdon, Herts 
Publication in Spotlight magazine, Circle Foundation for the Arts 
Gallery representation, Alessandro Berni Gallery, New York 
Canvas - Mixing Identities, London International Art Fair, THE LINE, contemporary art space, London  
 
2020
Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London  
 
2019
Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London  
Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence  
Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition, Gallerie du Marche Prestige, Montreux, Switzerland  
 
2018
Royal Society of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London  
Gallery representation, New Blood Art 
 
1990
Group exhibition, Art Now, London  
27 Artists before the roof falls in, Art East, London
Christie's Inaugural, Christie's, London

1984
International Garden Festival, International Garden Festival, Liverpool

Gallery Representation 

New Blood Art 
Singulart 
Saatchi Art 
Tom Zaw Gallery, Hoddesdon 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 

I wanted to create an artwork which had a subject similar in scale to the postcard - I thought a phone on a postcard seemed colourful and quirky, and I liked the idea of the mixed forms of communication - the all-encompassing phone of today humbled by reducing it to a drawing on a postcard. 

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