Artist Statement
My practice is committed to multiplicity - the freedom to be many things. This comes through in my commitment to a variety of mediums, my interest in bodies and identity, and the work’s insistence on holding many ideas and emotions simultaneously.
I paint on silk, faux suede, cotton velvet and aluminium - materials associated with luxury and the body - to entice the mammalian desire for softness and the human fascination with glamour.
My paintings are wet. Working with inks, dyes and oils, I let pigment bleed, spread and be pushed or pulled by metal or fabric. This mirrors the body itself - its internal and external processes, its refusal to hold a clean edge.
I consider the act of painting to be gestational : requiring nurture, collaboration and endurance. Colour moving beneath the surface and a soft, glowing ground create simulacral paintings - porous, responsive, full of presence.
My subject matter is drawn from autobiographical moments as well as found imagery that illustrates my ideal lush and unbounded female experience. I use the diptych form to playfully insinuate questions and dichotomies, fraying the edges of certainty.
Painting becomes my means of testing the relationship between making, perception and performance. Partially withholding visibility in the online presentation of my work becomes another way 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.
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 will be moving to Milan, 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, 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