Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

About
Rosanna Dean is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in London. She is artist associate at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies where she is developing and sharing ideas around Foundational cultural stories, ritual, and women's roles within these fields with Professors and Researchers from Oxford University and academics from around the world. Rosanna looks to imagery from foundational cultural stories and reconfigures them, interrogating notions of authorship, gender and the perspectives through which history has been constructed. Her compositions are often influence by her study of patterns in nature that reflect invisible physical laws that affect and have pull on all matter and its influence on the motifs within spiritual art. The work touches on historic notions of the grotesque, the hierarchy of dualistic thought, and how the feminine has been associated with the grotesque and a need to be controlled and contained, as exemplified in its association with the irrational, distraction-through its association with patterning and beauty-and bodily states of flux.

Education
2017-19-MA Painting, Royal College of Art
2014-Old Master Painting techniques, Angel Academy Florence
2013-BA (hons) Painting , Camberwell College of Art 2013

SelectExhibitions/Awards
2024, Sadness is But a Wall Between Two Gardens, Daniel Benjamin, London
2021, The Maffioli Art Group, Scalpel Building, London
2021, Economy of Errors, Ohsh Projects, 106 New Oxford Street
2020, FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London
2019, Kupala Festival, Phytology, London2
019, Critical Matter, The Dyson Gallery, London
2018, East Wing Biennial 13, Surge, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2017, Unshowable/Unthrowable, Hockney Gallery, London
2017, SPACE LCN Showcase, SPACE, London
2016, Paper Cuts, Transition Gallery, London
2016, Summer Exhibition, Florence Trust, London
2015, Yantra: Beyond Our Bodies, Lane Crawford, Hong Kong
2014, Turn on, Tune in, Drop out, La Bellvilliose, Paris
2014, Society Beyond Borders, TedX Oval Space, London
2013, BFI Film Festival, The Welsh Chapel, London
2022-24 Artist in Residence, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
2019, LADA, London
2019, Trelex Esp'Asse, Switzerland
2017, London Creative Network, SPACE, London
2015-16, The Florence Trust, London

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
‘Limbo1 and 2’ explore a recurring motif repeated in Rosanna’s paintings, a reconfiguration of a depiction of Eve from a painting from the 1500s. The work explores the way in which female roles have been delineated and the need for creating and disseminating new foundational stories, as a means to facilitating new ways of doing things. The work interrogates historical notions of otherness and dualist thought upon which western culture has been constructed.

‘Other besides you 1 and 2’ explore the patterns a body leaves behind and the meanings which can be interpreted from them. The work focuses on luminosity, care, absence while also exploring the realm of relics, authenticity, and the role of visual artefacts in reinforcing belief systems.


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