British artist Rose Wylie was born in Kent in 1934 and studied art at the Dover School of Art and Goldsmith University. After marrying fellow artist Roy Oxlade and raising three children, she entered the Royal Academy in 1981 and started to pursue her own art career once again. Rose Wylie began to draw attention at the age of 70 when she was first being represented by art gallerist Jari Lager. Wylie has held exhibitions at major museums around the world and has been more active than ever since recent years, as one of the top artists at the David Zwirner Gallery.
Rose Wylie is famous for her large-scale works that reorganise images created through her own filters of our common memories, culture and experiences. The artist's visual sources—her own personal history, world history, animals, plants, news, advertisements, movies and celebrities—vary widely and her works are created through her own perspective, although anyone can easily approach them and feel their familiarity. Rose Wylie understands the essence of the object of observation and completes the work by adding her unique physicality, accompanied by colourful memories and emotions. She incorporates all the events that occur in the process of working into her creation. Canvases are added, overpainted, or stacked, even attached and expanded to one and another, and some are completed with bare hands. The meaning of correction carries a different definition in the world of her work, as her artistry can be seen as a kind of time capsule that can preserve the artist's physical time, and even reveal the process of creation without filtering.
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