Details
| First Name | Rose |
| Last Name | Strang |
| Username | rosestrang |
| Website | |
| Region | Edinburgh & The Lothians |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Moving Image, Painting, Photography, Sound |
| Themes | Abstract, Environment, Figurative, Landscape, Portraits, Narratives |
Statement
| Statement | Landscape is the most profound teacher. Through painting landscape over the years, my brushwork hopefully begins to reflect energy felt from elements observed. Rose Strang’s inspiration comes from the natural world and the traces of memories it holds. Her marks reflect this in her painterly explorations of the land.
Rose often works in collaboration with writers, musicians, and other visual artists, creating projects and videos to memorise and record these experiences. Times critic Giles Sutherland on The Living Mountain series: — a symphony of subtle essences, distilled experiences, fleeting memory fragments and deep, heartfelt lingering impressions … these paintings work slowly, generatively taking hold of our senses and our imagination. (Robert McFarlane, author of The Lost Words, The Wild Places and Underland). In Rose Strang’s extraordinary paintings, no focal point is privileged. These are intensely dynamic paintings, seethingly alive with stroke, dab, scratch and drip. Landscape, here, is not static backcloth or wallpaper … Water, in Strang’s paintings, is made strange again to the eye … astonishing in its persistence, dramatic in its presence.
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Biography
| Biography | I’ve exhibited around the UK and abroad, including the following: (Edinburgh); Royal Scottish Academy, City Art Centre, Open Eye Gallery, Demarco Galleries, Morningside Gallery and The Heriot Gallery. (Scotland): Resipole Gallery, Acharachle, Limetree Gallery, Fortwilliam. (England) Limetree Galleries – Bristol and Long Melford, Lighthouse, Brighton. (Berlin) Gallery One. (Portugal) Corte Real Gallery. I also worked for many years in the field of public art and health, most recently as lead artist/curator for the Leverndale Hospital, Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Education, qualifications PRESS 2023. The Times ‘Rose Strang – Symphony of Subtle Essences and Lingering Impressions’ 2023 The National Nan Shepherd: Exhibition to mark 130th birthday of environmentalist 2022 The National https://www.thenational.scot/news/20203905.landscape-artist-rose-strang-unearths-rare-scottish-gaelic-gem/ 2022 Art Mag. Life on the Edge at Resipole Studios 2015 The Herald. ‘Artist gives back to landscapes that inspired her work’. By Susan Swarbrick, November 2015.
EXHIBITIONS 2025 Upcoming – Braemar. Art Farm. The Living Mountain, paintings by Rose Srang as part of Nan Shepherd celebration. Details tbc. Documentary, focussing on art, landscape and pilgrimage. Detals and launch date tbc 2024 Winter Exhibition, Fidra Fine Art Gallery, Scotand. 30 November 2024 to 26 January 2025. Autumn Exhibition, Limetree Gallery, Bristol. Launches 24th October Lime Tree Gallery. Summer Exhibition. June 20th to August 31st. The Resipole Gallery, 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Acharacle, Scotland. Launching Sunday 30th June. The Heriot Gallery, Edinburgh. Summer Exhibition
2023 November: ‘Borrowed Land’ the Kilmorack Gallery, Scotland. May/June Spring Show. The Heriot Gallery, Dundas Street, Edinburgh April. The Living Mountain: Dreaming a Response. The Heriot Gallery Edinburgh in collaboration with Limetree Gallery, Bristol. Feb/March. The Living Mountain. The Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh. 2022 May/June; Two-artist exhibition (with Jim Wright) at The Resipole Gallery, Ardnamurchan, Scotland. 2021 October 12th. Commissioned by the Folio Society to create artworks for their publication of The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd. August – Summer Exhibition. Limetree Gallery, Long Melford. 2020 November- Affordable Art Fair, Online. Limetree Gallery page. (50 international participating galleries). 31st October – November 21st – A Subtle Touch. Three-artist exhibition: Rose Strang, Anna King and Mhairi McGregor. Limetree Gallery, Bristol. 2019 SSA Open. Society of Scottish Artists, RSA, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (Group show) Winter Miniatures. Abbeyhill Studio, Edinburgh (Solo Show) Group Show. Christmas Exhibition, Limetree Gallery, Bristol. (Group show) Ardban. Limetree Gallery An Ealdhain, Fortwilliam, Scotland. (Solo Show) The Planets. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. Demarco Galleries, Summerhall, Edinburgh. Paintings by Rose Strang. Talk by Dr Michael Ward (author of Planet Narnia. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis). (Solo Show) Small Works,Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh. (Group show) Affordable Art Fair, Battersea (with Limetree Gallery) (Group show) Fresh Art Fair, Cheltenham (with Limetree Gallery) (Group show) Spring Exhibition, Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland. (Group show) 2018 SSA+VAS Open Exhibition, Society of Scottish Artists. RSA, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (Group show) First Look. Limetree Gallery, Long Melford (Group show) Wells of Arthur’s Seat. Abbeyhill Studio, Edinburgh. (Solo Show) Autumn Show, Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland. (Group show) Texture. Three-artist exhibition, Limetree Gallery, Bristol. The Winter Show, Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland. (Group show) Edinburgh Art Fair (Limetree Gallery). Corn Exchange, Edinburgh. (Group show) Christmas Show. Limetree Gallery, Bristol. (Group show) 2017 Christmas Show. Artpistol Gallery, Glasgow. (Group show) Winter Series: Music and Image. Abbeyhill Studio, Edinburgh (Solo Show) Edinburgh Art Fair, Corn Exchange (Lime Tree Gallery) (Group show) Isle of Harris. Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh (Group show) A Sense of Place. Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol (Group show) 2016 RSA Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (Group show) Harbours. Freespace Gallery, Edinburgh (Solo Show) June – Harbours. Solo exhibition, Freespace Gallery, Easter Road, Edinburgh April: Eigg Trilogy. Part of group show at the Flaubert Gallery, Edinburgh |