Rosie Galloway Smith
“Emotion is a complex place where we can all meet and understand each other.”
Love Series - Rust and Cement
‘I think the role of the artist is to create a space where uncertain and nuanced emotions have somewhere to play.’
Peeling back the layers.
Rosie Galloway-Smith is a contemporary mixed media visual artist who creates paintings, drawings, sculpture, and digital pieces that explore semiotics, materiality, femininity and identity.
She reimagines feminine desire past and present, with clothing, particularly dresses, being a central and reoccurring theme. She uses construction and household materials to emphasise the relationships clothes have with structure, and ultimately, dereliction. Her work plays with the history and meaning of different materials. Disintegration, fracturing and morphing continue to interest her, especially as a way to explore a surrealist psychotic disruption of signifiers and meaning.
The resultant pieces of art work incite an emotional and curious response, feeling recognisable yet unfamiliar at the same time. Altogether they form an ongoing personal enquiry into fragmented meaning and experience. Her work has been described as dark, curious, edgy, vibrant and texturally delicious.
Out in the Wild
Rosie’s Studio
Rosie is based in Carlisle in Cumbria, UK and has a studio alongside other artists on Currock Rd. Visits can be arranged with Rosie and open studio events are shared in the newsletter.
Rheged Installation 2019
Rosie created an impossibly long dress out of thin plastic, which was suspended within the Rheged Centre near Penrith where it could be viewed from multiple levels.
Residency at The GuildHall Museum 2016
As a result of an interesting residency in Carlisle as part of Art in Extraordinary Places by Eden Arts, Rosie created an appliqué tapestry showing where the flood of December 2015 ravaged the city.