Davis, Rosalind

Rosalind Davis is a mixed media painter and graduate from the RCA, creating melancholy dystopian landscapes that explore human experience and identity

Davis seeks out structures in areas of social deprivation, which may initially seem hostile or neglected, yet which serve a vital function to the individuals and groups connected to them. There is a fascination with the creation, evolution and destruction of these buildings and their underlying humanity. Davis explores these powerful themes of transience and survival, community and isolation.

Davis fuses painting, collage and embroidery onto printed floral fabrics, selected for their historical, cultural and symbolic representations.

This complex relation between mediums is integral to the pieces. Embroidery is used as a mode of paint. The meticulousness of the textiles, its intimate and alluring qualities are used to emphasise the fragility of the spaces depicted and the disconcerting juxtaposition between aesthetics and mean

Contact details
  Rosalind  Davis
07813 076 251
rosalind.davis@network.rca.ac.uk
www.rosalinddavis.co.uk

Primary Art Form
Visual Arts and Designer Makers

Other Artform categories
Painter / 2D
Textiles
Visual Arts