Where does the person stop and the art begin?
with Rosie Galloway-Smith

Friday 23rd February 2024 (7-9pm)
@ The Studio Morland
Free, but booking essential

In this colourful and intricate conversation, Rosie will guest on our Yellow Sofa to share with us her creative process, unique art style and what drives her as an artist and human. We will learn how how creativity is not linear, seek to explore how we process complex feelings through creativity, and examples of creative explorations in the way of sketchbooks and visual thought captures.

About Rosie

Rosie Galloway-Smith is a mixed media artist who creates paintings, drawings, sculpture, and digital pieces that explore semiotics, materiality, and fractured identity. 

Every day items such as clothing and utensils are reoccurring themes, alongside other found objects. She uses a mixture of different materials to layer meaning and explore their own histories andsignificance.  Disintegration, fracturing and morphing continue to interest her, especially as a way to explore a surrealist psychotic disruption of meaning to make sense of contemporary and historical issues relating to modern Britain. Expressing strong and ambiguous emotion is central to her work and each piece of work has a personal element.

Born in England, and raised in Scotland and Cumbria, where she currently resides, Rosie grew up in an eccentric family with Roman Catholic parents and eleven siblings. She completed her undergraduate degree in Fine Art at University of Humberside, Queens Gardens, Hull in 1996. After a few years travelling in Portugal and Barcelona, Rosie returned to the UK and completed a PGCE in Secondary Art education. In 2005 she emigrated to Ontario, Canada, returning to the UK again in 2007.

Rosie completed the Mlitt Fine Art Painting at Glasgow School of Art in 2018. She has exhibited extensively in Cumbria and internationally. News and updates can be found on her Instagram page, @rosiegallowaysmith.