Oil on paper, wood

66cm x 35cm

2024

(@rosalindhowdle)

25% of all sales will be donated to The Trussell Trust

Rosalind Howdle (b. 1997) is a British-American artist based in London.
She studied Painting at the Royal College of Art (2022), and at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL (2019). She has also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (U.S.) and Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Canada).

She was awarded the Vanguard Prize in 2019. She attended the RCA as a recipient of the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship (2020-22), and was included in Artlyst’s Ones to Watch 2023. Her first solo show was with Blue Shop Gallery, London (2023) and featured in Artsy’s Vanguard 2024.

“For me, figuration is alive. The metamorphoses taking place in the course of painting seem to mimic the biological processes that underpin my subject matter: evolution, reproduction, and self-repair. I paint things that grow; things that are somewhere between botanical and animal, microscopic and cosmic. I am painting, too, about the human experience of being an organism with scientific knowledge. It’s equal parts exciting and unsettling to witness the determination with which organic matter makes more of itself. It is to witness a self-ongoing orchestration infinitely larger than our individual lives - but underpinning our existence. Through painting I reflect on the unconscious undercurrent of survival and perpetuation that links me to the food I eat and the grass I walk on. I’m interested in what happens at this boundary between two entities – in the electric charge of the dividing line, of the visible and invisible processes of growth.”