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Personal Profile For Ms Rosemary Snell
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Painting. Bath School of Art and Design.
MA [Norwich School of Art and design], BA(Hons) [Loughborough College of Art and design].
Personal Statement:
Rosie Snell's disquieting landscapes bear the inscriptions of war. A piece of real estate the spoils. Military machinery and installations camouflaged, hidden in the tangled foliage.
In these visions of post-nuclear pastoral, military objects have become monoliths, imbued with a quiet calm. Each machine static but at the same time predatory in its environment, the lack of human presence giving them an unnerving autonomy. Their camouflage appropriates the aesthetics of their surroundings, but can also be read as a language of anxiety and falsehoods.
Increasingly, new concepts and capabilities associated with our information age seem to offer a new type of warfare, a post-heroic warfare without bloodshed. But the fact of war is often a long way from our emotional or intellectual response to it. And however appealing modern theories of 'Clean Warfare'(1) are, Clausewitz's stark warning still seems disturbingly current; "The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms."(2)
Snell's works are not those of a war artist, presenting a social documentation or conveying a particular political point of view. They encompass both the past and the future, examming concealment, disinformation and the physical and psychological impact war has had and continues to exert upon our environment.
(1) Jean Baudrillard, 'The Gulf War did not take place'.
(2) Carl von Clausewitz, 'On War'.
Teaching Specialism:
Fine Art Painting
2008 - Bath Spa University - Senior Lecturer in Fine art
2006 - Norwich School of Art and Design - Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art
1999-2008 Bath Spa University - Lecturer in Fine Art
1998 - City and Guilds of London Art School - Lecturer in Fine Art
1998-1999 The Slade School of Fine Art - Lecturer in Fine Art
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
Solo Exhibitions
2002 Formula 1 Vertigo Gallery, Milan
2001 Ground Clearance Vertigo Gallery, London Catalogue
1999-2000 Landscapes from the Border Paton Gallery, London Catalogue
and Berwick Gymnasium Gallery
1997 The Lie of the land Paton Gallery, London
1997 Rosie Snell The King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich
1997 The Promised Land The Bond Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Command and Control Standpoint Gallery, London Catalogue
2008 Back to the Future Berwick Gymnasium Art Gallery Catalogue
2008 Kenyan/British Printmaking Ra Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi
2006 East International Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich Catalogue
2006 Forest Dreaming Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter
2004 Forever Beautiful Clapham Art Gallery, London
2004 Everyday is like Sunday Vertigo Gallery, London Catalogue
2003 Realism Flowers East, London Catalogue
2003 Landscape Vertigo Gallery, London
2003 15 Art 2003, Curated by Sacha Craddock and David Rizley,
Business Design Centre, London
2002 Landscape Paton Gallery, London
2001 Peterborough Art Prize Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
2000 Beyond the Scene Paton Gallery, London
2000 10 years on The King of Hearts Gallery, Norwich
1998 Nine Past / Nine Present The Gallery in Cork Street, London
1997 The NatWest Art Prize Lothbury Gallery, London Catalogue
Awards
2001 Peterborough Art Prize, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
2000 The Woo Charitable Foundation Award
2002 The Elizabeth Greenshields Award
1997 NatWest Art Prize - Runner Up
1997 The Elizabeth Greenshields Award
1996 Royal Bath and West Art Scholarship
1994 The Elizabeth Greenshields Award
Collections
The Saatchi Collection / Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery / Old Mutual / The British Standards Institute / Goldman Sachs / Royal Bank of Scotland / Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery / Private Collections
Publications
The Berwick Gymnasium Fellowships, English Heritage and Art Editions North, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9557478-1-6
Eastinternational 2006, Norwich Gallery, Forward Lynda Morris, 2006, ISBN 1-872482-80-5
Disruptive Patter Material, Hardy Blechman, Maharishi, 2004
Everyday is like Sunday, Vertigo Gallery Publications, 2004, ISBN 1-903771-11-0
Realism, Flowers Gallery, Forward Edward Lucie-Smith, 2003, ISBN 1-902945-37-9
Landscape, Saatchi Gallery Publications, 2002, ISBN 0-9538587-6-6
Ground Clearance, Vertigo Gallery Publications, 2001, ISBN 1-903771-03-X
Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1999, ISBN 1-86154-0337
The New Neurotic Realists, Saatchi Gallery Publications, 1998, ISBN 0-9527-453-8-0
Residencies and Fellowships
1998-1999 Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, English Heritage, Berwick
1997-1998 The Florence Trust Studios, Highbury, London
Current Scholarship:
Completing 'Switzerland' series of four etchings
Continuing 'Switzerland' series of paintings and drawings
Continuing 'Switzerland - Fake Chalets' research
Maintaining knowledge of contemporary art through exhibition visits in the UK and abroad and related academic research
Last Updated: 16 March 2009.
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