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Rose Wylie
Rose Wylie OBE RA (born 14 October 1934) is a British painter. She is an artist known for creating large paintings on unprimed canvas.
Wylie was born in Hythe in Kent She studied at the Folkestone and Dover School of Art from 1952 to 1956. She stopped painting to raise her children, channeling her artistic energies, she said, into “soups, jam, clothes, curtains, and Christmas cards.”. In 1981 she graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art at 47..
Wylie only began to receive recognition for her distinctive oversized paintings, made in her signature loose, spontaneous style, later in life, in her 70s. She was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery in 2012 , then Tate Britain the following year and the Serpentine in 2017. Previously represented by Union Gallery, she signed with David Zwirner Gallery in 2017.
Wylie creates her oversized paintings on unstretched, unprimed canvas with “stubby brushes, like scrubbing brushes so I can push things around”. She also uses her fingers or applies paint straight from the tube. She often sticks, tacks and glues scraps onto the canvas to give the painting texture, with smudges and drips left apparent. "I don’t mind imperfection at all," she once said in an interview, "only I don’t call it imperfection—I call it “wearing out” or “it’s got a stain on it” or “it’s falling apart.”
Her work is inspired by her daily life and sources such as movies, comic books, nature, news, sports, and celebrity stories. She has painted scenes from Quentin Tarantino films and football matches; still lifes of her kitchen burners; portraits of her daughter applying mascara and herself eating a cookie. She often returns to the female figure, with Marilyn Monroe, Nicole Kidman, Queen Elizabeth I, and Serena Williams as recurring characters. Her paintings often combines high and low culture.
Words and phrases frequently appear in her paintings. Text often guides the viewer, offering hints about the stories, films, or personal memories behind the imagery. They are also treated as shapes and compositional elements.
In 2010 Wylie was the only non-American artist represented in the Women to Watch exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C..
In 2016 Rose Wylie: Pink Girls, Yellow curls was held at the Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, and she has also had a solo show at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin.
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Rose Wylie
Rose Wylie OBE RA (born 14 October 1934) is a British painter. She is an artist known for creating large paintings on unprimed canvas.
Wylie was born in Hythe in Kent She studied at the Folkestone and Dover School of Art from 1952 to 1956. She stopped painting to raise her children, channeling her artistic energies, she said, into “soups, jam, clothes, curtains, and Christmas cards.”. In 1981 she graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art at 47..
Wylie only began to receive recognition for her distinctive oversized paintings, made in her signature loose, spontaneous style, later in life, in her 70s. She was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery in 2012 , then Tate Britain the following year and the Serpentine in 2017. Previously represented by Union Gallery, she signed with David Zwirner Gallery in 2017.
Wylie creates her oversized paintings on unstretched, unprimed canvas with “stubby brushes, like scrubbing brushes so I can push things around”. She also uses her fingers or applies paint straight from the tube. She often sticks, tacks and glues scraps onto the canvas to give the painting texture, with smudges and drips left apparent. "I don’t mind imperfection at all," she once said in an interview, "only I don’t call it imperfection—I call it “wearing out” or “it’s got a stain on it” or “it’s falling apart.”
Her work is inspired by her daily life and sources such as movies, comic books, nature, news, sports, and celebrity stories. She has painted scenes from Quentin Tarantino films and football matches; still lifes of her kitchen burners; portraits of her daughter applying mascara and herself eating a cookie. She often returns to the female figure, with Marilyn Monroe, Nicole Kidman, Queen Elizabeth I, and Serena Williams as recurring characters. Her paintings often combines high and low culture.
Words and phrases frequently appear in her paintings. Text often guides the viewer, offering hints about the stories, films, or personal memories behind the imagery. They are also treated as shapes and compositional elements.
In 2010 Wylie was the only non-American artist represented in the Women to Watch exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C..
In 2016 Rose Wylie: Pink Girls, Yellow curls was held at the Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, and she has also had a solo show at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin.
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