ROSEMARY OAKESHOTT
Artist's Statement
My main artistic practice involves site specific drawing. I am interested in creating work, normally 3-dimensional, which draws its inspiration from a specific site as well as intervening in the site.
I am a chronic scavenger, hoarder, and recycler, and for the 'remarks' group exhibitions I have used mostly material which I already had or could scavenge in order to explore ideas about classification. I am especially interested in exploring the tension between the role of classification as a system of control, and its role as a provider of security. I like to use found and discarded media, challenging their classification as worthless, and aiming to present them as being of some value.
Group Exhibitions- 2005
- Palimpsest remarks' website exhibition.
- 2005
- Build a Cyclotrojan, Winchester & Newbury
- 2004
- Art in the Park, Newbury
- 2003
- Off our trolley, Newbury & Hungerford
- 2000
- Unpacking remarks, Winchester
- 2000
- remarks on the Landscape, Newbury
- 1999
- Roake Farm Open Studio, Broughton
Education
- 1997-1999
- Oxford Brookes University (MA Victorian Architecture & Religion
- 1991-1996
- Winchester School of Art (BA Art & Design)
- 1990-1991
- Open College of the Arts
- 1952-1955
- Oxford University (BA Mathematics)
Recycled railings
© Rosemary Oakeshott 2005