About
Rosie Stanton is some-sort-of artist. She is well trained with a Bachelor of Arts n’ Farts from the VCA class of 2021 and well practiced with a slow and steady studio practice of almost pre-teen age maturity.
She will flip flop (by frustration or for fun) between material visual and the spoken written. With loose allegiance to final form, she nurtures ideas through permutations of possible and impossible expressions.
Rosie’s guiding ghosts are elusive though persistently present: whimsy and resonance, sentimentality and spirit sensitivity, playful absurdity, and mysterious familiarity.
Rosie loves to host workshops, exhibit paintings, perform poetry, write creative essays, and sit a market stall. But. Honestly and truly, Rosie’s passion is for serious play and she will fiercely protect her and your God-given privilege to chase the tail of your own curiosity and imagine a happier day.
Rosie and Lilly create and cross boundaries to find the in-accessibilities that surround us in our daily lives. Through physical and conceptual disruptions and deconstruction, they highlight the restrictions, confusions, and ambiguities of experiencing life and place.
These ambiguities are further investigated in the search for genuine worth and experience. By placing arbitrary value on trinkets and objects, they explore the true worth of these things and the myth of Truth in experience, place, and love.
The idea of value and worth is pushed by playful accumulations. Building up a storage of ideas, games, words, things; to hoard a wealth of worthless things in order to dwell in a sea of ironic treasures. These treasures which are lost and found or thrown away and recovered, perhaps even destroyed and pieced back together again. Whose trash is whose treasure?
Reality is convoluted, a spatial understanding is futile, and truth is lost...
But all in good fun.
‘Disobedient Accumulations’ Collaborative project with Lilly Skipper at Platform Arts Geelong 22/5/2023 - 30/6/2023
