RACHEL ROSE

Rose’s work traces the ways landscapes shape human experience and how the stories and belief systems we weave are born from them. Across film, painting, drawing and sculpture, she draws on the cinematic to explore terrains both minute and immense—from a child’s toys scattered across a bedroom floor to the vastness of outer space—each scale opening onto the same core enquiry: how landscapes inscribe themselves into human life and the narratives we build around them.

In recent years, she has turned to early modern British landscape painting as both resource and reference, creating new works that evoke the uncanny, surreal forces unleashed as land was burned, cut and reshaped in the early industrial era. These paintings reflect on how that historical rupture continues to reverberate in our perception of nature today.

With Slips, Rose extends this line of questioning into a new body of paintings that fuses landscape with psychoanalytic theory, a conjunction that opens new ways of considering how images both conceal and reveal underlying reality.