As part of our ongoing Grow At Home programme of online talks with local artists, we welcome painter, printmaker and video artist, Rosemary Clunie for a talk and interactive Q&A afterwards.
Rosemary Clunie was born in Scotland, living in London, and now working from Grow studios in Hackney Wick.
She has exhibited widely since 1991, in places like the World Economic Forum in Davos, and Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. Her paintings are held in eminent private and public collections. Her last major exhibition, at ROSL in Mayfair, was a collaboration with Booker prize winning author Ben Okri, arising out of their innovative book The Magic Lamp, published by Head of Zeus. Will Gompertz of the BBC said of The Magic Lamp: ‘ This is a magical book in every sense, a spellbinding, poetic, artistic journey into our collective imaginations and inner selves.’
The FT stated that her work "recalls that of Joan Miró or Quentin Blake", while the New Statesman wrote: "Clunie's use of colour is billowing, rich and dreamlike." Rosemary Clunie’s paintings encourage the viewer to travel from the mundane world into a realm of the imagination, to an inner dimension where art lives freely away from the climate of the present day. Yet it stimulates a fresh interaction with reality.
She also creates conceptual artworks with Ben Okri in a rare dialogue between text, image, and our times. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” (Aristotle)
This event is part of the government’s Cultural Recovery Fund 2, administered by the Arts Council.
Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish, and where every one of us has access to a remarkable range of high-quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
Find out more at www.artscouncil.org.uk/covid19
About Grow, Hackney
An Experiment in Ethical and Sustainable Business.
Grow is an independent and self-organised eco-system of studios and a creative space with bars and a kitchen, created out of an old sausage factory by the River Lea in Hackney Wick. We work in partnership with artists, musicians, DJ's and community groups and host a diverse programme of events, including: live jazz and blues, open deck reggae, workshops and talks and art/film festivals. Grow pays London Living Wage, uses eco-electricity, sources ethically and locally and is free entry, wherever possible. We currently serve a seasonal menu and range of drinks, including organic wines and prosecco, cocktails, homemade Hackney Spiced Rum, cask ale and also offer a range of soft drinks including Kompassion Kombucha, Rejuce, Charitea, tea and Union Coffee..