Rosalind Faram's dynamic paintings are informed by a wide-ranging research into visual culture, that can include anything from Giotto to 1970's sweet wrappers and Muppets characters, to present day emojis, fashion culture and more. Her practice is led by a passion for ways of enquiry into painterly representation, conjuring tableaux that seduce and repel in turns; deconstructing her subjects, playing with surface and creating spaces of uncertain dimensions. Seeing painting as a transition from an activity of mind into the bodily arena, she challenges the status quo with an acerbic wit and irreverent humour; delighting in meticulous detail and delicate layering which exists quietly in defiance amidst large, loud energy-led areas of rich colour and an almost pre-school simplicity of stuck-on fake jewels, metal foil, glitter and buttons - resulting in an exuberant and sophisticated power-play across the picture plane. Taking informed risks, Rosalind confronts fetish, obsession and desire with a playful confidence; revelling in the absurd, the beautiful and the menacing with the indefatigable curiosity of a truly contemporary artist.
Studio updates:
https://www.instagram.com/rosalindfaram/
Digital/Other:
https://www.instagram.com/_my_sab0teur_/
EDUCATION
MA Fine Art (Distinction) 2018 Chelsea College of Arts, London UK
Turps Art School, London UK 2014-15
BA Hons (Painting) 1989 Chelsea School of Art, London UK
EXHIBITIONS
CURRENT
Blakefest:
Virtual Visions 2020 launching 28 November online group show curated by Dr Mikey Georgeson
UPCOMING
Solo Show Elysium Gallery, 210 High Street, Swansea UK dates tbc 2021
Plymouth Contemporary 2021:
The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth dates tbc 2021
KARST Gallery dates tbc 2021
SOLO
Cubby Hole 4-9 May 2017
Side Room
Curated by Ilana Blumberg and Mark Lungley
Chelsea College of Arts, London
Wet Boot January & February 2016
Ashdown Forest Centre, Wych Cross, Sussex UK
The Charioteer
Works on paper 1 Feb – 4 March 2016
Rudolf Steiner House, Park Road, London NW1
SELECTED RECENT GROUP SHOWS
Hell or High Water curated by Caroline Gregory
20-22 November 2020 LV21 Ship Gravesham Kent UK
Beep 2020 Painting Biennial
3 October - 7 November 2020
Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales UK
Walls in Online Places
While Supplies Last - Museum Edition 14 & 21 September 2019,
Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle, Washington USA
Curated by Anthony White
#MyArtistsTelescope Jerwood online gallery curated by Nigel Cooke 2019
Sleep is not an empty act 29 September 2018
LADA The Garrett Centre London E2 Curated by Moi Tran
MAFA Graduation Show 7 – 13 September 2018
Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, Pimlico, London
Where It Is 25 January 2018 Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Boot Camp 7-17 November 2017 Arts SU Project Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Please Yourself 30 October – 4 November 2017 MAFA Gallery Chelsea College of Arts, London
Blakefest 16 Sept – 12 Oct 2017 www.blakefest.co.uk
Honest Chat 17-22 July 2017 MAFA Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Fortune 22 – 25 June 2017
Curated by Danka Nisevic, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London
Myths 220-22 April MAFA Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Nasty Women Chelsea 16 March 2017 MAFA Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London
East Sussex Open 2016 Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
Selected by Jenni Lomax, Melanie Manchot & Brian Cass
Correspond 28 July-28 August 2016 IR 11 The Facility, Ocean Terminal 1, Edinburgh
Also at the Artworks Gallery, Halifax & Rye Creative Centre
Foule Parlement 8 – 23 April 2016 No 4a Gallery, Malvern, UK
Curated by Rosalind Faram
Also at Electro Studios, Hastings & Rye Creative Centre
East Sussex Open 2015 Towner Gallery Eastbourne
Selected by Saskia Olde Wolbers & Jonathan Watkins
Q Art 14 11 – 14 Dec 2014
APT Gallery, Creekside, Deptford, London
Nunhead Open 10 19 – 21 Sept 2014
The Surgery, Nunhead, London
Correspond 5 – 11 Sept 2014 Turps Art School, Taplow, Aylesbury Estate, London
LINKS
https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/chelsea-college-of-arts
PRESS
PUBLICATIONS
Arthole Magazine August edition 2020
Poetry & Prose
Excerpts from the Life of Pain Rosalind Faram 2018
PRIZES
Winner Beep2020 Painting Prize
Longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019
Shortlisted for the Jacksons Art Prize 2016
Peer Mentor Chelsea College of Arts 2017-18
Visiting Tutor MA Fine Art University of Sunderland February 2021