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A photograph of Rose Wylie in her studio, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

endlesslyinappropriate

The floor of Rose Wylie’s studio in Kent, England, is covered with newspapers—source material for her art, which references films, celebrities, athletes, news stories, and renaissance paintings without hierarchy, but often through the filter of her own memory.

In this new series of hand-finished editioned prints, Wylie re-examines her personal history while experimenting with varying ways to intervene on each unique work using oils, watercolors, and colored pencils.

 

These large-scale prints are based on one of her original pages from Clothes I Wore, a collection of drawings and collages depicting the artist’s memorable garments, along with objects from her personal life: Victorian spoons, say, or her cat Pete.

Much like her breakthrough Glamour Girl paintings, these editions render the private in a public manner. As Wylie has said, “a diary can become history if better known.”
 

This online presentation debuts in parallel with the artist's solo exhibition at the gallery in Hong Kong. Rose Wylie: painting a noun…   is on view through Saturday, February 22.


Photography and Video by Tim Gutt.

A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #10, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #10, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with colored pencil, marker pen, graphite, and collage
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)

The black frock worn by the central figure, a self portrait of the artist, depicts a silk dress by fashion designer Frank Usher, whose name appears repeatedly on the drawing. Wylie bought the dress in Oxford in 1956; she spent an entire month’s salary on it, yet never found the right occasion to wear it.

A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #15, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #15, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with colored pencil, marker pen, and collage
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)
A photograph of Rose Wylie in her studio, dated 2019
A detail from a print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #15, dated 2019
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #12, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #12, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with marker pen, ink, and collage
48 x 65 7/8 inches (122 x 167.2 cm)
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #22, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #22, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with ink, watercolor, graphite, marker pen, and collage
48 x 64 3/8 inches (122 x 163.5 cm)
A photograph of Rose Wylie in her studio, dated 2019

The original page numbers of the spread from Clothes I Wore were removed during the scanning and printing processes, so Wylie drew them back in. Wylie uses numbers as a tool to navigate her own memory—a textual fragment that decodes the enigma of the work.

“The drawings can come from the excitement of anything I’ve seen, but particularly from film, newspapers, and memory of personal events.”

—Rose Wylie, quoted in “Quack Quack, Ack Ack,” from Rose Wylie Quack Quack

A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #16, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #16, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with colored pencil, marker pen, graphite, and collage
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)
A composite featuring images of Rose Wylie in her studio, dated 2019
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #13, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #13, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with colored pencil, marker pen, ink, and collage
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)
A detail from a print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #15, dated 2019
A photograph of Rose Wylie in her studio, dated 2019
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #21, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #21, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with ink, marker pen, and collage
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #19, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #19, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with ink, marker pen, watercolor, and collage
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #18, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #18, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with ink, marker pen, and collage
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)

Wylie, uninterested in working with the same images over and over, makes specific, expressive alterations in oils, watercolors, and colored pencils to each edition: sometimes she changes the dresses, redraws the faces, or alters the numbers.

A photograph of Rose Wylie's studio, dated 2019
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #5, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #5, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with colored pencil and marker pen
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)
A photograph of Rose Wylie in her studio, dated 2019
A detail from a print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #14, dated 2019
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #14, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #14, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with colored pencil, marker pen, and collage
48 1/8 x 67 1/8 inches (122.3 x 170.6 cm)

“Perhaps what Wylie’s art most strongly communicates is the rebellious possibility of simply seeing things differently. She watches as the endless stream of films, news stories and magazine pin-ups parade past, taking something back and making it, uniquely, her own.”

 

The Guardian

A photograph of Rose Wylie in her studio, dated 2019
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #1, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #1, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with colored pencil, oil, and marker pen
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)
A print by Rose Wylie, titled Clothes I Wore #20, dated 2019

Rose Wylie

Clothes I Wore #20, 2019
Pigment print on 300g 1584 Hahnemühle laid paper in two (2) parts, with marker pen, watercolor, and collage
48 x 64 5/8 inches (122 x 164 cm)
A photograph of Rose Wylie's studio, dated 2019

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