Chat with Rose Wylie
Rose Wylie and I talk about moving the large wet work on paper that she’s making now, how difficult it is to get on with work when you have so much time to just be in the studio and how Rose is using this time to look up other artists. Rose talks about her love of sticking rather than stitching and how she's a staple gun freak. We talk about what Rose is working on and about her wonderful late night drawings. We touch on her show at David Zwirner Hong Kong, "Painting a Noun" and her passion for Coleridge's poetry. Rose talks about being hands on and the difficulties of this approach. We discuss skirts, feet, and body image. Rose tells us what characters she's into right now and why she was taken with Snow White (contrast) and Elizabeth Taylor (because she was brittle, had mauve eyes and was all over the papers.) Rose speaks about text and we consider humour and being serious. To end, Rose proposes a new colour, green without blue and tells us about renaming her cat, now called Pete.
Links:
http://www.choiandlager.com/artist.php?artist_id=35&show_id=4
https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/rose-wylie-painting-noun-2020
https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/rose-wylie-quack-quack
Image:
Detail from the image discussed:
Rose Wylie
Bird, Butterfly & Worm
2015
Oil on Canvas
159 x 548 cm
Private Collection