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
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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 … 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.' Rosie Dahlstrom, 2015 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… 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
On Photoshop
Rosie Dahlstrom: Collages from 'Delphyne' series, digital collages, 2018 On Monday 29th October 2018 I, finally, got my head around Photoshop. It was a momentous day. Every day since then, I have been on a computer messing about with Photoshop. Mastering the tech skills has been on my to-do list since art school first time… Continue reading On Photoshop
On Alternative Practices
"As I taught [at California College of the Arts], many students were coming to the end of their studies and were moving toward things that weren't art. But they weren't saying 'fuck the art world'. It was the content of their work that led them into other field, to, say, becoming a doctor, as one… Continue reading On Alternative Practices
Sertraline Dreams 