Rose Wylie

Rose Wylie
Born (1934-10-14) October 14, 1934
Kent, England
Known for Painting

Rose Wylie (born 1934) is a British painter.[1]

Life and work

She was born in Kent[2] on October 14, 1934. Wylie studied at the Dover School of Art from 1952–56 and later graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA, in 1981.[3]

She lives and works in her Kent cottage, producing extremely large paintings on unstretched, unprimed canvas, in her signature loose, spontaneous style.[3]

Wylie was one of the seven finalists for the 2009 Threadneedle Prize,[4] and one of the winners of the 2011 Paul Hamlyn Prize for Visual Arts.[5]

In 2010 Wylie was the only non-American artist represented in the Women to Watch exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.[6] In 2012, she had a retrospective at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings,[7] followed in 2013 by an exhibition at Tate Britain, London that featured recent works.[8]

In September 2014, she won the John Moores Painting Prize.[9][10] In February 2015 she became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA Elect). In June of the same year she won the Charles Wollaston Award for "most distinguished work" in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.[11]

She has been invited to meet and talk with students in the significant artists series ‘Artists Promenades’ at the Royal College of Art and given talks on her work at The Slade, Goldsmiths, Wimbledon College of Art, The Royal Academy Schools, The Royal Drawing School, John Moores Liverpool, the ICA and Tate Britain. Wylie has work in private and public collections including Tate Britain, the Arts Council Collection, Jerwood Foundation, Hammer Collection, and York City Art Gallery. Rose Wylie: Pink Girls, Yellow curls is currently on at Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, and she will have a solo show at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin[12]

Personal life

Her husband was Roy Oxlade, also a painter. Wylie initially gave up painting to raise their family.[9]

Lack of money was not a limitation to her; she and her family had strategies to overcome this, offering informal painting classes at their house and turning the garden into a place for students to camp. In a short film accompanying the exhibition, Wylie says that friends of her children asked why she was always dressed in the same clothes; her reply was “as a radical non consumer, I prefer dealing with what I have.”[13]

In 1955 when Wylie was just 21 years old, studying art in Folkestone and Dover she was painted by Anthony Devas for the Aero girl ad campaign. She describes herself as being a “rebellious art student” at the time, adding that her look was “more Bridget Bardot than Mills & Boon cover.” It is apt that the painting is labelled, not with the true identity of the sitter, but with the fictitious advertiser’s title, Alice.

As a young woman, Wylie regularly modelled for the artist John Ward and it was whilst his friend Devas was staying with him, that she sat for this Aero commission. She knew that the portrait would appear in Rowntree’s Aero adverts and by the time she was at Goldsmiths College in 1956, it had already been published in the Daily Express, News of the World and People Illustrated.[14]

References[3]

  1. ↑ "Artist to Watch: Rose Wylie". Contemporary Art Society. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Marcus Reichert. "The Painting of Rose Wylie". State.
  3. 1 2 3 "Rose Wylie Biography – Rose Wylie on artnet". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  4. ↑ "Lucky 7 are in the frame for Threadneedle Prize". The Threadneedle Prize. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "2011 Awards for Artists announced". Paul Hamlyn Foundation. 3 November 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  6. ↑ Germaine Greer (9 July 2010). "Who is Britain's hottest new artist? A 76-year-old called Rose Wylie". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  7. ↑ Emine Saner (13 February 2012). "Rose Wylie: 'My mother thought women should have an escape route'". The Guardian.
  8. ↑ "BP Spotlight: Rose Wylie". Tate. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  9. 1 2 "Rose Wylie wins John Moores Painting Prize aged 80". BBC News. 19 September 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  10. ↑ Mark Brown (19 September 2014). "'Fresh and cutting edge' Rose Wylie, 80, wins John Moores painting prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  11. ↑ "Rose Wylie RA announced as winner of the Charles Wollaston award" on royalacademy.org.uk, 6 June 2015.
  12. ↑ "Rose Wylie | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  13. ↑ "The octogenarian painter whose overdue success shames ageist attitudes". The Independent. 2016-01-24. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
  14. ↑ "Painter Rose Wylie revealed as one of the long lost Aero Girls | The National Archives blog". The National Archives blog. 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2016-10-26.

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