Artist Statement
My practice is concerned with the sensual experience of being in a generative female body. This includes the possibility and freedom, particularly for the female, in being uncontainable, multiple. These ideas are expressed through my commitment to sensorial mediums and my subject area of watery bodies, interaction and identity.
I consider the act of painting to be gestational, requiring nurture, collaboration and endurance. In this way it becomes a means of testing the value of the body in contemporary society through making, perception and performance.
My subject matter is often autobiographical, chosen to explore potentially lush, pleasurable and unbounded experiences. I regularly use the diptych format to playfully fray the edges of certainty in slippery, sensual dualities.
I paint on silk, faux suede, cotton velvet and aluminium - materials associated with clothing and luxury - to entice the mammalian desire for softness and the human fascination with glamour. Like human bodies, my paintings are primarily made with water. Working with inks, dyes and oils, I let pigment bleed, spread and be pushed or pulled by metal or fabric, resulting in work that holds both reassuring and destabilising properties.
On this website, I partially withhold visibility of my work to question how the value of images, bodies, and lived experience become distorted in the digital space.
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.
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 in London with her husband and two children. She is currently completing an MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (2026), after which she will be moving to Milan. 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.
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Selected Exhibitions
2026, Group Show, Traction, Exeter
2026, Group Show, 36 Hours, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2026, Group Show, The OAC, Handbag Factory, 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