The First Show This collaborative project started with an artists' residency in August 2023, at the International Kuenstlerhaus of Kebbel Villa, which is a contemporary art museum incorporating an artist residency programme located in Schwandorf-Fronberg, Bavaria, Germany. I was lucky enough to go with three artists that I have been working with since we all… Continue reading On ‘Spirits of the Riverbank’
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On the MA Show
Rosie Dahlstrom: 'Delphyne and the Oracle', performance and installation, Chelsea College of Arts, July 2019 From 26th June to 4th July, we finally got into our MA Show spaces at Chelsea to start installing our work in time for the grand opening on Friday 5th July. Then the show was open to the public from… Continue reading On the MA Show
On portland
Some short, experimental pieces of writing that serve to contextualise our post-MA Fine Art collaborative project, that goes by the name 'portland'. Working with 7 other artists from around the world, we aim to publish a zine every month working together and individually, creating our own platform for our practices and our own community. 1.… Continue reading On portland
On Delphyne: Part 1
Lord, either let me suffer or let me die ... Some notes on the things I find interesting that feed into, inform, the content of my project Delphyne: Guardian of the Oracle of Delphi. This project considers the relationship between women and belief, women and religion, women and hereticism and fanaticism, the idea of being… Continue reading On Delphyne: Part 1
On ‘The Uncanny’
There is in fact a path from phantasy back to reality again - and that is art. Sigmund Freud, 'Introductory Lectures', 1922 Freud's essay on 'The Uncanny' is one of those seminal texts that was always brought up throughout my art-life, especially in my undergrad in GSA, and particularly 2nd year in which everything we made… Continue reading On ‘The Uncanny’
On Giglets: Part 3
'The study of these products of folk-psychology [myth, legend, and fairy-tales] is by no means complete; however it is highly likely that myth, for instance, corresponds to the distorted remains of the wishful fantasies of whole nations, the secular dreams of youthful humanity.' Sigmund Freud, 'Creative Writers and Day-dreaming', 1908 Rita's Giglet Hannah's Giglet Previously… Continue reading On Giglets: Part 3
On Giglets: Part 2
Man made of blood and man made of stone, in the mud with little bits of bone. In December 2018 and January 2019 I realised a desire I've had for several years. In the Ceramics studio at Chelsea College of Arts, I made a collection of 50 objects, little hand-formed lumps of clay, that I… Continue reading On Giglets: Part 2
On Alice Morey
In April I visited the opening of my friend, artist and fellow MAFA student Alice Morey at her solo exhibition She doesn't love, she just devours at the Ryder Projects in Bethnal Green (link to website here). I've been interested in Morey's work since getting to know her and her practice over the past seven or… Continue reading On Alice Morey
On Giglets: Part 1
Rosie Dahlstrom: 'Giglets', series of 50 ceramic sculptures, 2019 (installation shot of 13th Hour exhibition, February 2019) Below is a text piece I wrote about the thought process of making the Giglets; then I animated the words into a stop motion film. The projection of this film and the Giglets themselves as documented above were exhibited… Continue reading On Giglets: Part 1
On The Belfry
i wanted to make you swoon with a light bulb that i taught to laugh but you took that bulb and you chewed it to a pulp and you spat out fifty full grown fireflies but it was all a lie ... those fireflies were made out of dust and i don't wanna watch them… Continue reading On The Belfry
Sertraline Dreams 