Rosie Galloway Smith
Artist CV
Public Commissions
Workington Art Trail November 2024 - February 2025. One of 3 commissioned artists to create work as part of a community focused art trail in the centre of Workington. Commissioned by Cumberland Council.
Class, Covid and Cumbria August 2021- February 2022. Awarded £10000 commission to express the Cumbrian experience of the Covid Crisis: weathering the storm. Commissioned by Lakeland Arts for Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House, Bowness on Windermere.
Artful Ways June 2021 - Autumn 2022. One of 5 commissioned artists. Piece completed: Tangled Threads. commissioned by Somewhere NOWhere and exhibited at Tullie House, Studio Morland and The Florence Arts Centre through a touring exhibition.
Education and Training
2018 Glasgow School of Art
MLitt Fine Art Practice (Painting) 2:1
2010 Creative Futures Cumbria
Creative Ambassadors & Creative Mentoring Training
2007 Ontario College of Teachers
Conversion Course for International Teachers
2005 Cumbria Chamber of Commerce
Creative Business Course for Artists
2003 Institute of Education, London
PGCE Secondary Art and Design
1996 University of Humberside
BA (hons) Fine Art (Sculpture and Painting) 2:1
1993 Cumbria College of Art and Design
B-Tec Nat. Diploma Foundation in Art and Design
Solo Exhibitions
July 2018
Symbolic, Imaginary, Real. The Vallum Gallery, University of Cumbria, Carlisle
March 2018
Tracing Materiality – show curated by Anna Clark at Glasgow School of Art
November 2015
Figurative Work, Barnard Castle
September 2009
Sentimental Arithmetic - Pastels, Foxes Lounge, Carlisle
July 2009
Ghosts of St Aidan’s - Photographic Interactive Exhibition, Carlisle Library
November 2006
Telling Tales – Pastels, The Artfinder's Gallery, Liverpool
March 2001
Untitled – Acrylic Paintings, Ribborn, El Born, Barcelona
December 1999
Contando Cuentros - Collages and Drawings, Calle Canuda, Barcelona
Residencies
Prism, Carlisle. Artist Takeover Project. October to December 2024
Merz Barn, Langdale. With Prism Arts. August 2019
Dumfries House, Ayrshire. March – April 2018
Guildhall Museum, Carlisle. C-Art Art in Extraordinary Places. September 2016
Publications
Cumbria Life Magazine - January 2022
Westmorland Gazette - November 2021 visit
Through the Locking Glass – published by Inspired by Lakeland August 2020
Media
Studio Morland Creative Thinkers - Live Talk and Podcast - Art and Mental Health. 17th January 2025
Studio Morland Creative Thinkers - Live Talk and Podcast - Where does the Artist Stop and the Art Begin? 23rd February 2024
Tangled Threads Presentation on Installation Piece For 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed- At Home Online Event 30th April 2023
BBC Radio Cumbria - Morning Feature - 19th November 2021
BBC Radio Cumbria - The Arty Show – 18th March 2019
Other Exhibitions
November 2021 - February 2022
Class, Covid, and Cumbria - Blackwell the Arts and Crafts House. Bowness on Windermere
Artful Ways - Tullie House Museum and Gallery, Carlisle
June 2021
Through the Locking Glass – The Rheged Centre, Penrith
May 2021
Proseed – Inspire, Spring exhibition
December 2020
Proseed – Carlisle Winter Exhibition
October 2020
Turquoise Dreams: My Serenity. Online Exhibition for Female Neurodiversity
August 2020
Proseed – Carlisle Summer Exhibition
July to November 2020
Through the Locking Glass – Publication and 2 exhibitions
April 2020
Small Corners Online Exhibition. Curated and Presented.
August 2019
Artists at the Merz, with Prism Arts, Elterwater, Cumbria
July 2019
Relay, Group show at Tramway, Glasgow.
May – December 2019
Single Use, Installation at The Rheged Centre, Penrith
November 2018
The Weird and Eerie, The Pharmacy, Carlisle
September 2018
Mlitt Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art
March 2018
Close By, GSA Group Show, Trongate, Glasgow
March 2017 - 2019
Maris Studio and Gallery, Crofton, Cumbria
February 2017
A New Conversation – re-run of West Walls Artists exhibition, interrupted by flood
December 2016
Christmas Show @ Gallery Number 3, Carlisle
January 2016
Love Cumbria Art Auction, The Halston, Carlisle
December 2015
Retrospective - 21 years of West Walls Artists, Old Fire Station, Carlisle
November 2015
Windsor Contemporary Art Fair with ArtCrowd Gallery
May 2015
Life in Colour – Contemporary Painting Open Mind Gallery, Carlisle
April 2015
Reading Contemporary Art Fair with ArtCrowd Gallery
August – Sept 2014
Cumbrian Contrasts, Rheged, Cumbria
March – May 2013
West Walls Artist Show, High Head Sculpture Park, Ivegill
June 2006, 2007
Art in the Park, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, with Windsor Printmakers’ Forum
October 2005
Manchester Art Show - Manchester, - Represented by Artsquare Gallery
2005 to 2006
Artsquare Gallery, Muswell Hill, London
April 2005
Glasgow International Art Fair, Showed with Eleventh Hour Art Studios