Artist Statement
Sensuality, vitality and acts of nurture are recurrent themes in my work, reflecting my interest in cherishing the lushness of the human body and female experience.
I paint on silk, faux suede and cotton velvet - materials associated with luxury fashion and the body - to entice the mammalian desire for softness and the human fascination with glamour. Saturating these fabrics with inks and dyes conveys the movement and fluidity of the internal body as well as amorphous feeling and sensation on skin. Tensions and rhythm emerge from further layers of inks and frenetic drawing in oil stick, while prismatic colour palettes describe light and depth, potential and energy.
My subject matter is drawn from autobiographical moments and found imagery. I often put these together in the form of diptychs to playfully insinuate questions, comparisons and dichotomies. Paired with an embrace of imperfection in my material approach, this allows me to gently fray the edges of critical judgement, softening the view of inherent flaws and foibles.
Painting becomes my means of testing the relationship between making, perception and self-worth, between the desire to exemplify an ideal and the instinct to reject it.
Partially withholding visibility in the online presentation of my work becomes another way to teasingly 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.
Her practice is shaped by an ongoing inquiry into contemporary female self-worth - 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), and has exhibited in Belgium and the UK since 2023. Her work is in private collections in the UK, Europe, USA, Mexico and Asia.
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Selected Exhibitions
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