Rosalind Miller
Rosalind's paintings seek to hold onto forms of human presence that contemporary image culture continuously erodes. In a world saturated with photographs, screens, surveillance, and self-performance, people are more visible than ever, yet increasingly difficult to truly perceive.
Working in oils on wood panels, she paints figures that hover between appearance and disappearance, recognition and obscurity. Using fluid, unstable brushwork, rather than definitive portraits, her figures feel simultaneously familiar and unreachable, intimate and anonymous. She works from found and incidental imagery, being particularly drawn to peripheral figures — people caught unaware, absorbed in thought, or half-lost within the background of an image, moments that ordinarily carry no cultural importance and would likely disappear without notice.
Rosalind practised and exhibited regularly in the 1990s before moving into careers in design, education and teaching at institutions including Central Saint Martins and the RCA. This is return to painting but also a continuation of an art practice that has accompanied her throughout her life.