2018
The BBC has just released a new documentary titled Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Blooming. The hour-long program, which was filmed over a period of more than six months, includes in-depth interviews with the artist at her home, in her studio, at gallery openings, and elsewhere. Presented by Alan Yentob, the documentary is part of Imagine, the BBC’s popular series of arts documentaries that has previously featured Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker, and Rachel Whiteread. Wylie, whose work has drawn critical acclaim in solo exhibitions including Quack Quack at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London this past year, has just been honored with an OBE in the Queen’s annual Birthday List in recognition of her unique artistic practice.
This Rose Is Blooming meets Wylie in her studio "to discover how her memories and experiences have helped mould the artist that she is today, and how she transforms the stuff of everyday experience into new and hitherto unseen painterly visions."
Wylie’s work is on view in solo exhibitions at CAC Málaga (through September 9), and Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchangein Cornwall (through September 15). Her painting African Barber Shop Sign (2016) is included in the 250th Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (through August 19), and nearby Bond Street is adorned with an outdoor installation of decorative flags the artist created based on the paintings featured in Lolita’s House, her recent solo exhibition at David Zwirner London. In the second pairing in David Zwirner’s podcast, Dialogues, Wylie talks with actor Russell Tovey from BBC’s Being Human and HBO’s Looking.
In the UK, you can stream this new documentary here.