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October 2010
Edel Assanti is proud to present Superunknown, an exhibition curated by Andy Wicks and David Northedge which features Rosalie Wiesner's work.
PRESS RELEASE:
Literature and Hollywood have long been creating dark and empty visions of near future societies in decline. In the present day, materials addressing this subject matter have once again found their way onto reading lists and cinema screens, forming a focal point for contemporary popular culture.
Projections of our universal future are often delivered in cautionary tones and serve as warning of how to avoid the total decimation of society. Notional futures of grim decaying interiors and bleak grey landscapes populated by savage inhabitants are the cultural benchmark for a morbid moribund world limping towards apocalypse.
Superunknown is a group show of twelve artists who produce work that addresses a future full of dreams, illusions and fantasies, celebrating the neglected virtues of the glossy, lurid and bizarre. The combined works on show articulate a hallucinatory collective vision of a future in which illicit vices serve as the connective tissues for a population wheeling recklessly onwards with a stoic apathy toward redemption and self-preservation.
This group show is formed predominately of painters whose work share a common aesthetic of semi abstraction and contemporary landscape. The exhibition also features photography, video, sculpture and installation based works.
September 2009
Rosalie Wiesner exhibited a small part of her series Tales of Other Spaces at John Jones Project Space for an exhibition entitled Work 09.
John Jones has a long history of supporting emerging artists and contemporary art in London. This art gallery called The Project Space quickly developed a reputation as a resource to introduce artists and curators to a new audience of gallery owners and collectors, creating strong opportunities across our creative network.
November 2008
The making of the exhibition at the Nottingham Castle is now online.
October 2008
BBC Radio and Metro Interview
In support of her exhibition at t
he Nottingham Castle, Rosalie Wiesner appeared on the Afternoon Show with John Holmes on BBC Radio Nottingham on 9/10/2008. She talks about life, mortality and her camera. Wayne Burrows of Metro interviewed Rosalie Wiesner for the article 'Wiesner is a mitress of Reality.' Her exhibition is also reviewed in IMPACT Magazine.
October 2008
I't's Almost Almost Always Fiction in the End - Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Rosalie Wiesner presents her solo exhibition of photographic work; It’s Almost Always Fiction in the End, at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, after winning first prize in the city's Annual Open Competition of 2007. Wiesner is showcasing her series Tales of Other Spaces (2007), which explores both real and imagined scenes, alongside new work made in the Middle East earlier this year, in which she investigates a series of worlds where the viewer is unable to look beyond the façade of an artificial sky. Using long exposures, Wiesner focuses on places where luminosity and matter come together to create an unfamiliar world where everything we witness has the potential to be a story, played out in short photographic acts. A recent graduate of NTU, Wiesner has created this new body of work with support from Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, which has a long history of supporting the work of artists based in the city and wider East Midlands.
Dates: 11 October to 4 January 2009. Private View 10 October 6-8pm. For images, invites and further information please contact Natalie Court on 0115 915 2751.
PRESS RELEASE
Novemeber / December 2007
First Prize Winner Nottingham Castle Annual Open 2007
Rosalie Wiesner's Tales of Other Spaces series won this years’ Nottingham Castle Annual Open 2007 competition, which was held at Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, exhibiting local and regional artists, sculptures and photographers. Aimed at emerging and established artists and makers based in the East Midlands working in all media, this exciting exhibition is a celebration of the creativity being practised in the UK. Attracting up to 10,000 visitors each year, the Nottingham Open is an important platform for artists looking to promote and sell their work. Held during the Autumn / Winter, a call for applicants is made each summer. Nottingham Castle invites two art professionals from around the UK to act as an independent selection panel. The panel is joined by a Senior Executive from our sponsor Berryman. Left Lion Review
September 2007
Rosalie Wiesner was featured as international photographer in the September issue of Soura Magazine, the only publication purely dedicated to photography in the Middle East.
August 2007
Rosalie Wiesner’s work was exhibited in various locations around Nottinghm such as the Orange Tree and Lee Rosy’s Tea Shop.
The series Tales of Other Spaces was selected for Free Range 2007, a show that is a selection of photography from final year graduating students from across the UK. The work reflects the creativity and range of their practice and represents the diversity of ideas and production that is encouraged on the course.
June / July 2007
Rosalie Wiesner is participating in Four LUX as part of the Nottingham Trent LUX Photography Degree Show Festival. Her work will be shown alongside three graduating students at the Surface Gallery. 5th June - 16th June 2007, Private View: Saturday 9th June 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Surface Gallery is proud to present four BA visual artists who have come together forming an exhibition of seductively intelligent photographic work. Curated by, and including the work of Olivia Allen, Lucinda Chua, Holly Malone and Rosalie Wiesner, Four LUX presents a debut collection of refined imagery by four emerging artistic talents.
In Tales of Other Spaces Rosalie Wiesner makes photographs that float between fact and fiction, creating utopian spaces that appear to be fundamentally unreal, even fictional. The photographic medium transforms the garden from the familiar and domestic, to a dramatic stage where the ordinary and the mysterious seem to co-exist. Banal o
bjects posses a presence, physical and symbolic in their unfamiliarity. Fragile moments grow out of darkness to reveal imaginary places that cannot exist without the camera.
The Still Point is a collection of fragmented moments. Each photograph is incapable of conveying a story in its entirety; instead the con
sequences of light leave an imprint of what has passed. Lucinda Chua's imagery captures characters at pivotal points of interim where they remain bound to their poses trapped within the frame. Whilst this moment of stillness is silent, each tableau is a performance, pieced together and constructed like a work of fiction.
Malone’s body of work Contently Inquisitive consists of sincere portraits unassuming in their subtlety. She photographs a network of individuals close to her, all at tender points of change. Each photograph sensitively suggests a new beginning in their discovery of life. Whilst our future may be curious, her pictures collectively exhibit a power to influence and grow into our own existence.
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aiture and masquerade. The photographs challenge the conventional image of woman through the representation of female masculinity. This critically informed work captures the female gaze in its most dominant form.
For more information please visit LUX Festival, BBC Nottingham or the Surface Gallery.
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