Rosalind Faram is a multidisciplinary artist based in the UK.
Honouring and transforming biographical trauma through the lens of neurodiversity, she works from the space of Self-created heterotopias where Otherness commands and directs with Love.
Employing painting, sculpture, photographs and video, writing, artist books, ceremonial clothing design and ceramics, Faram interrogates the socio-political roots of trauma and the de-politicization of depression.
She uses the visual language of modern contemporary popular culture, as well as arcane and esoteric imagery and art-historical references to question, observe and comment upon relationships and responsibilities between the individual and family, community and environment. In so doing, she challenges invisibility, disempowerment, violence, apathy and isolation.
And further, through opposing the traditional white-western-male patriarchal art-culture model; for example, the 'Masterpiece', the great novel, the symphony, the skyscraper, et cetera, Rosalind prefers to facilitate an expansive, fluid mode of creating; a partitive, non-hierarchical aesthetic which embraces alterity, challenges notions of taste and celebrates difference.
PRIZES
Winner Plymouth Contemporary Award 2021
Winner Beep2020 Painting Prize
https://www.instagram.com/p/CF47c9plDls
ANARCHY HOMEWARES
Anarchy Homewares is an optimistic anti-capitalist experiment set up in 2022 by Rosalind, which uses a barter system to trade goods and services; for example, hand-crafted unique ceramic objects for use in the home, hand-made clothing, painted posters & more in exchange for an agreed service or goods of equal and respectful worth. More information to come.
Studio updates & news:
https://www.instagram.com/rosalindfaram/
M0ther_f1gure_ Project:
https://www.instagram.com/m0ther_f1gure_/
Exploring intergenerational maternal experience, trauma and multiple issues around mother & daughterhood
EDUCATION
RECENT SOLO
Mini Apocalypse
Ceramics and collage February 4 - March 5 2023
Common Clay, Unit 8b, Beeching Road Studios, Bexhill UK
No More Stuck Inside
5 February - 19 March 2022
Elysium Gallery Swansea Wales
Cubby Hole 4-9 May 2017
Side Room
Curated by Ilana Blumberg and Mark Lungley
Chelsea College of Arts, London
SELECTED RECENT GROUP SHOWS
Common Clay Members Show 2022 19 November - 11 December, Flatlands Projects, Bexhill UK
Love, Celebration and the Road Ahead
29 September - 1 October 2022 TJ Boulting Gallery London
Artist Support Pledge A Generous Space 2
May 20 - September 25 2022 The New Art Gallery Walsall UK
Stand Close and Breathe Me In
4 June - 16 July 2022 Elysium Gallery Swansea Wales
Sucker Succour
The Sunderland Pavilion of the Wrong Biennale AKA The Priestman Gallery
7 February - 18 March 2022
Plymouth Contemporary 2021:
The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth & KARST Gallery, George Place PL1 3NY
7 July - 5 September 2021
Stand Close and Breathe Me In
Curated by Enzo Marra in conjunction with Contemporary British Painting
Pineapple Black Arts Middlesborough UK August 6 - September 5 2021
The Postcard Project Exhibition 14 - 15 August 2021
147 Stoke Newington High Street, London N16 0NY UK
Stand Close and Breathe Me In
Curated by Enzo Marra in conjunction with Contemporary British Painting
Oceans Apart Gallery Salford UK June 25 - July 25 2021
Blakefest:
Virtual Visions 2020 launching 28 November online group show curated by Dr Mikey Georgeson
https://virtualvisions.weebly.com/
Hell or High Water curated by Caroline Gregory
20-22 November 2020 LV21 Ship Gravesham Kent UK
Beep 2020 Painting Biennial
3 October - 7 November 2020
Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales UK
Walls in Online Places https://www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/walls-in-online-places-vol.2-online-exhibition
While Supplies Last - Museum Edition 14 & 21 September 2019,
Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle, Washington USA
Curated by Anthony White
#MyArtistsTelescope Jerwood online gallery curated by Nigel Cooke 2019
Sleep is not an empty act 29 September 2018
LADA The Garrett Centre London E2 Curated by Moi Tran
MAFA Graduation Show 7 – 13 September 2018
Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, Pimlico, London
Where It Is 25 January 2018 Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Boot Camp 7-17 November 2017 Arts SU Project Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Please Yourself 30 October – 4 November 2017 MAFA Gallery Chelsea College of Arts, London
Blakefest 16 Sept – 12 Oct 2017 www.blakefest.co.uk
Honest Chat 17-22 July 2017 MAFA Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Fortune 22 – 25 June 2017
Curated by Danka Nisevic, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London
Myths 220-22 April MAFA Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Nasty Women Chelsea 16 March 2017 MAFA Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London
East Sussex Open 2016 Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
Selected by Jenni Lomax, Melanie Manchot & Brian Cass
Correspond 28 July-28 August 2016 IR 11 The Facility, Ocean Terminal 1, Edinburgh
Also at the Artworks Gallery, Halifax & Rye Creative Centre
Foule Parlement 8 – 23 April 2016 No 4a Gallery, Malvern, UK
Curated by Rosalind Faram
Also at Electro Studios, Hastings & Rye Creative Centre
East Sussex Open 2015 Towner Gallery Eastbourne
Selected by Saskia Olde Wolbers & Jonathan Watkins
Q Art 14 11 – 14 Dec 2014
APT Gallery, Creekside, Deptford, London
Nunhead Open 10 19 – 21 Sept 2014
The Surgery, Nunhead, London
Correspond 5 – 11 Sept 2014 Turps Art School, Taplow, Aylesbury Estate, London
LINKS
https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/study/explore/arts-creative-industries/creative-lives/
https://freelandsfoundation.co.uk/annual-report-representation-of-female-artists-in-britain
PRESS
https://www.buzzmag.co.uk/whats-on/rosalind-faram-no-more-stuck-inside/2022-02-04/
https://elephant.art/do-female-artists-have-to-choose-between-motherhood-and-a-career-14122020/
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=351788266073802
https://www.walesartsreview.org/the-beep-painting-prize-2020/
MORE
Visiting Tutor The Essential School of Painting, London 2023 &
MA Fine Art University of Sunderland February 2021
Peer Mentor Chelsea College of Arts 2017-18
MA Fine Art (Distinction) 2018 Chelsea College of Arts, London UK
Turps Art School, London UK 2014-15
BA Hons (Painting) 1989 Chelsea School of Art, London UK