ARTIST BIO

Rosie Stanton is a Melbourne based Australian Artist. Since graduating from
VCA University of Melbourne with a BFA (Visual Arts), Rosie has been showing her work in group shows at local Melbourne art spaces and regionally in Bendigo and Geelong. She has had one solo exhibition at a pop up artist run space.
In 2022, Rosie worked collaboratively with students at Tokyo University of the Arts to produce a dual exhibition to be shown in location in Tokyo and at the VCA in Melbourne.
More recently Rosie has been researching the Arts and its place in community spaces and for spiritual health. In this time, she wrote and facilitated a drawing workshop titled ‘Draw Near: Drawing as a spiritual practice’ using the practice of drawing by observation to reflect on 4 key emotional and spiritual issues.
She now takes this research as a basis, to make new work.
Rosie has had the opportunity to make this new body of work at the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artists and Writers Residency. She was accepted to attend for the month of April this year and awarded the Diderot grant and Emerging Artist grant.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Using water, Indian ink, and various embellishments, Rosie Stanton makes drawings. Rushed drawings that are mended with stitched threads, collaged with plastic scraps, and beaded with pearls.
Through these practices, Rosie redeems melting images.
With a foundation of Christian faith and Biblical understanding Rosie addresses spiritual hopes and tragedy. Through the making practices and imagery used, Rosie highlights the brokenness of all things, the inability to fix these things to perfection in our own power, and the promises made that through faith God will remake these broken things.
She turns her back on efficient practices. Stitch by stitch darning torn paper works. Wet on wet, painting ink that bleeds uncontrollably. Rosie is heavily inspired by Makoto Fujimura’s practicing ‘Slow Art’ to stretch time allowing for discoveries of the art, the self, and the world. Also taking inspiration from the Japanese art of Kintsugi and philosophy of Wabi-Sabi, Rosie draws attention and glorifies the torn and creased edges of the paper.
Balancing the peacefulness of relenting control and the frustrations of losing control, Rosie seeks personal growth through her art making.

Melbourne / Australia