Artist Statement
I paint my own lush, unbounded experiences to explore the importance of female pleasure. Painting is gestation, not eruption: it requires nurture, collaboration and endurance. From this feminist perspective, I ask how we value the generative body, and the richness of its experience.
My imagery comes from autobiographical moments and found images. I use diptychs to question and playfully compare the human with other animals and plants.
The pleasure of making and looking is part of the work. Colour soaks and spreads across surfaces that feed back: cotton velvet, faux suede, silk and aluminium, materials of luxury, desire and comfort. The weave pulls pigment, the pile swallows it, the metal refuses it.
My paintings are wet. Like the body, they refuse to hold a clean edge. Paint bleeds and seeps, sometimes encouraged into loose forms. Over that I layer ink and oil stick, playing with transparencies and covering up.
From afar, the works glow and invite. Closer up they are saturated, strange, almost too much. The largest are billboards that make you step back, the smallest are pixels that make you lean in. I present physical experience as performed spectacle, asking where the two meet and separate.
Biography
British-American painter Rose Fulbright (b.1988) works with various media on surfaces with rich cultural and sensorial associations. She grew up between Portmeirion and Polynesian statues, the grandchild of architects, potters, science fiction writers and a beauty queen, the child of an anthropologist and a marine biologist.
Her practice is shaped by an ongoing inquiry into contemporary female identity - both how it is formed and how it is performed - articulated through themes of the regarded body, sensory experience, fulfilment, desire, and power.
Rose graduated with a Distinction in an MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in September 2026. Having first studied couture fashion at Parsons, Paris, Fulbright went on to complete a BA in Costume Design at London College of Fashion. In the early years of her career, Fulbright’s practice focussed on design in her eponymous clothing label, crafting silk loungewear pieces as ‘wearable art’ intended to heighten the wearer’s awareness of their body’s preciousness and presence. This approach resonated strongly with collectors - some of whom even chose to wear their silk robes during the early stages of childbirth.
Rose has lived and worked in Paris, Beijing, and Brussels, and is now based between London and Milan with her husband and two children. She has exhibited in Belgium and the UK since 2023, and her work is in private collections in the UK, Europe, USA, Mexico and Asia.
CV
Selected Exhibitions
2026, Group Show, Mouth Wide Open, The Health Society Mayfair, London
2026, Group Show, Traction, Exeter
2026, Group Show, 36 Hours, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2026, Group Show, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Oriel Brondanw, Wales
2026, Group Show, Women’s Day, Outhouse Gallery, London
2025, Solo Show, The Staircase, Painter’s Hall, London
2025, Group Show, JOY, Glenside Hospital Museum, Bristol
2025, Group Show, Transmission, Millbank Tower, London
2025, Group Show, Transmission, Stackt, Toronto
2025, Group Show, The Dome, Portmeirion, UK
2023, Solo Show, The Fauvist Jungle, The Hari Hotel, London
2023, Solo Show, The Fauvist Jungle, The Nine, Brussels
Residencies
2024- 2025, Transmission Residency in association with CGLAS and UAL, London and OCADU, Toronto
2023, Portmeirion Village Artist in Residence
2023, Tresco Island Residency