Marigold Man Competes with the Washing

Rosie Burns is an artist, a painter, printmaker, writer, and teacher a magpie for collecting images and ideas. Her work explores environmental themes and the human form. Rosie trained initially in Archaeological Illustration, specialising in prehistory. Her technical drawings published in global papers on the Neolithic period. After completing her PGCE in Art and Design at the University of Plymouth, late 1990s, she taught in various educational settings locally, nationally, and internationally. Rosie has exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions over the past three decades, alongside teaching.

 

 She established Rosie and Red Art and Leather studios in summer 2023 with her partner a micro tanner and leather craftsman, a step into full time self employment as an Artist.

 

Rosie’s work is experimental and adventurous, exploring different media but thematically consistent. Over the last decade,  focus on social justice: gender representation, and ecological issues, alongside formal oil paintings celebrating the natural world.

 

Her work was featured in the 2024 Venice Biennale, and selected for open exhibitions at the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE); alongside more local and national exhibitions, workshops, classes for social prescriber's and facilitating a life drawing day in her studio.

Not a race to battle - just the next load of washing!   

Depiction of gender in Art has been a preoccupation since anthropological study as part of an archaeology and sociology degree in the late 1990’s. Marigold Men (Marigolds are luridly coloured rubber gloves) are an ongoing series of prints, the male nude wearing rubber gloves, comic and concerned with the depiction of men and the male nude in Art, historically, and in advertising using cleaning products along side the male names given to cleaning products / vacuum cleaners. Even though the realm of the domestic is still predominantly female – wouldn’t we all like a Marigold man? This is a small attempt to redress the lack of domestic male figures depicted in art – not just king, leader, soldier or nobleman but man who also cleans the toilet. I have been making Marigold Man prints for almost a decade - they are slowly growing a following and always raise a smile!

Cardboard Cut - Monoprint,series of 5, 100% recycled hand made cotton rag paper, water based ink and neon paint.

25x35x2cm

Framed under glass

Edition of 5