Rosie Emerson | Facade, 2023

50 x 38 cm

Edition of 10

Rosie Emerson is an award winning contemporary artist from the UK, working almost exclusively on representing the female form. Inspired by her love of museums, architecture, theatre, silhouettes and shrines, she uses dramatic lighting, hand made costumes, set and prop making alongside printmaking and painting to create ethereal works on paper. Her subjects range from models, actors, dancers, and circus performers which she photographed in her studio Emerson latest etchings begin life as boxes, constructed into Maquette theatre sets made in her studio using her collected ephemera sweetcorn husks beads, shells, buttons, natural materials, alongside chess pieces curtain rings, ornate furniture handles images, all repurposed and crafted together. These sets are photographed in the artists studio then digitally combined with circus performers who were also photographed by the artist in the studio. The photopolymer etching process unifies the image leaving the boundaries blurred between the real and the fabricated, the characters transposed into their 'new audience' ready arena's. This artist produces her prints in small editions, the etching plate which has been cut bespoke to echo the shape of the maquette is 'inked up' individually before going through the press, once printed and left to dry each edition has been hand painted with water colour and bronze powder making each one subtly unique. Previous exhibitions include the Royal West of England Academy, The London Original Print Fair , The Young Masters Art Prize and shortlisted for the Rise Art Print Award. Previous commissions include The Dorchester and Arts council England, for whom she created a new Guinness World record by creating the world’s largest /cyanotype photograph. Her work is widely collected and exhibited both in the UK and internationally, and has been featured in Creative Review, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Another Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine and The Sunday Times Style Magazine.