Rosalind Davis Portfolio Rosalind Davis is an artist interested in transformation, space, process, material and surface. Davis’s mixed-media paintings of paradoxical visionary abstracted spaces, structures, and landscapes portray an unfolding, complex set of possibilities for both physical and psychological space. Interior and exterior space are both suggested and physicalised through a process of emergent materialisation. Using a range of media; paint, photography, installation, drawing, vinyl adhesive and threads the work is at once enigmatic and tense . Davis’ irrational, dislocated and unfathomable spaces take as their starting point modernism, 1950/60’s British architecture & social housing all within the context of the urban environment and questioning of the ideals of utopia and dystopia. The embroidery that is inherent in the works is used as a symbolic piercing and puncturing, of materiality of modernism as well as perceived limitations of sexual stereotyping. The thread also creates a sense of physicality within a conceptual space as well as referencing human fragility and the conjoining of both masculinity (painting and architecture) and feminine mediums (embroidery) and their coexistence. ' Within these attempts at addressing the collapse of the urban grand narrative comes, in the best of them at least, a sensitive attunement to the personal. This is certainly the case in the works of artist Rosalind Davis, who incorporates painting, embroidery and mixed media fragments into a sustained attempt to navigate the relationship between the individual and the systemic/architectural.‘ Tom Jeffries. www.RosalindDavis.co.uk Living Room. Mixed media paint & threads on cotton duck 100x100cm.2014
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