Paintings of Caixa. Madrid. By Rosalind Davis

Architects Herzog & De Meuron

www.RosalindDavis.co.uk Copyright Rosalind Davis 2014

Suspend. Oil and gloss paint, vinyl adhesive & threads on cotton duck 90x120cm.2014

Division. Oil & Gloss paint, vinyl adhesive & threads on cotton duck 90x120cm.2014

The Distance Between. Oil and gloss paint, vinyl adhesive and embroidery on cotton duck. 90x120cm. 2013

Distance To. Oil and gloss paint, vinyl adhesive and embroidery on cotton duck. 90x120cm. 2013

Initial Drawings of Caixa on Photographs

Original Photographs of Caixa.

Rosalind Davis Portfolio

Rosalind Davis is an artist interested in transformation, space, process, material and surface. Davis’s mixed-media paintings of paradoxical visionary abstracted structures and landscapes portray an unfolding, complex set of possibilities for both physical and psychological space. Interior and exterior space are both suggested and physicalised through a process of emergent materialisation. Using a range of media; paint, photography, installation, drawing, vinyl adhesive and threads the work is at once enigmatic, tense and serene. The threads that bind these works are ideas about displacement, disassociation, irrational and unfathomable spaces, dislocation and estrangement that take as their starting point modernism, 1950/60’s British architecture & social housing all within the context of the urban environment and the exploration and questioning of the ideals of utopia and dystopia. Every medium used in Davis’ work is as symbolic as it is relevant. Photographs capture a sense of reality. Paint and drawing portray disparity between the imagined and what is real. The embroidery that is inherent in the works is used as a symbolic piercing and puncturing, of materiality of modernism as well as perceived limitations of sexual stereotyping. The thread also creates a sense of physicality within a conceptual space as well as referencing human fragility and the conjoining of both masculinity (painting and architecture) and feminine mediums (embroidery) and their coexistence.

“Rosalind creates a tension between embellishment (embroidery) and depiction (painting), sensuality and awkwardness. The nature of embroidery dictates that the surface of her paintings becomes heightened by the physicality of the stitching modifying the decorative aspects and tradition of embroidery from its original purpose. She is an artist of great integrity and vision ” Graham Crowley

' Within these attempts at addressing the collapse of the urban grand narrative comes, in the best of them at least, a sensitive attunement to the personal. This is certainly the case in the works of artist Rosalind Davis, who incorporates painting, embroidery and mixed media fragments into a sustained attempt to navigate the relationship between the individual and the systemic/architectural.‘ Tom Jeffries. a

www.RosalindDavis.co.ukLiving Room. Mixed media paint & threads on cotton duck 100x100cm.2014

The Observation Room. Mixed media paint & threads on cotton duck 100x100cm.2013.

Revision. Oil and embroidery on cotton duck. 100x100cm.2014

Transition. Oil and embroidery on cotton duck. 100x100cm.2014

Counter Structure. Oil on embroidery on cotton duck 30x30cm. 2013

Unveil. Oil on embroidery on cotton duck 30x30cm. 2013

Liebskind.1. Oil and embroidery on cotton duck. 100x100cm.2013

Intersection. Oil and embroidery on cotton duck. 80x80cm. 2013

Divide. Ink, pen and tippex on paper.29x54cm.2014

The Observation Room. Ink, pen and tippex on paper. 30x30cm.2013

Asunder. Oil and embroidery on linen. 100x120cms. 2013.

BIOGA graduate from the Royal College of Art (2005) and Chelsea College of Art (2003). Davis has exhibited nationally and internationally in a number of commercial, public and artist led spaces including CoExist, Phoenix Brighton, Art Gene. She recently had a solo show at Bruce Castle Museum, a public museum in London and her work was recently on display in the exhibition Material Matters at the Courtauld Institute 2012-2013 and Other Solo shows have been at The Residence Gallery (2007), John Jones Project Space & Julian Hartnoll (2009) and The Stephen Lawrence Centre (2008). Recently she has been curated in group exhibitions by a number of artist/ curators; Harry Pye, Jake Clark at the Lion and Lamb Gallery, Juan Bolivar for ArtKapsule and Ben Coode-Adams and Freddie Robins for Blackwater Polytechnic. She has been selected for open submission competitions; The Crash Open Salon, The Salon Art Prize, The ING Discerning Eye, the Lynn Painters Stainers Prize, The Ludlow Open & UK Young Artists Event. In 2014 she will be exhibiting in group shows in Bangkok, Australia and London.

www.RosalindDavis.co.uk