Rosemary Clunie is next ‘Mezzanine Gallery’ artist to show - Opening Thurs 11 May.
A game from an invisible kingdom. (c) Rosemary Clunie
21 April 2023
Join us on Thursday 11 May, 5-7pm for the launch of artist Rosemary Clunie’s show on Grow’s mezzanine gallery in Hackney Wick. Rosemary will be showing carefully selected prints from her prolific body of work. This exhibition launch is combined with our weekly jazz jam which starts at 7.30pm so you can view work, meet Rosemary and then enjoy jazz from some of London’s most upcoming musicians.
About Rosemary Clunie
Rosemary Clunie was born in Scotland, lives in London and now works from Grow Studios. 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.
Recently, Rosemary has shown at the Bomb Factory with Booker prize winning author Ben Okri which was featured in the Guardian and described as following ‘the footsteps of word-and-picture masters Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jenny Holzer’ Before that, her last major exhibition, at ROSL in Mayfair, was another collaboration with Ben Okri, arising out of their innovative book The Magic Lamp, published by Head of Zeus. (signed copies available at the PV). 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 Finanicial Times 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 and prints 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)
Arabian Nights (c) Rosemary Clunie
About the Mezz Gallery
Located on Grow’s Mezzanine wall, this space will showcase the work of curated local artists every 1-2 months.