Rose Wylie is a painter. She studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art, and at the Royal College of Art. All of her work is centred on painting and drawing. Wylie represented Great Britain in Women To Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C, 2010. Her first retrospective exhibition was held at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 2012, and was followed by her BP Spotlight exhibition at Tate Britain, 2013, which led to museum shows in Philadelphia; Tonsberg, Norway; Wolfsberg, Germany; Tal R’s Project Space, Copenhagen; and the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.
In 2011, she was given the Paul Hamlyn Award and in 2014, she won the John Moores Painting Prize. In 2018 she was awarded an OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
She has been invited to meet and talk with students in the significant artists series ‘Artists Promenades’ at the Royal College of Art and given talks on her work at The Slade, Goldsmiths, Wimbledon College of Art, The Royal Academy Schools, The Royal Drawing School, John Moores Liverpool, the ICA and Tate Britain. Wylie has work in private and public collections including Tate Britain, the Arts Council Collection, Jerwood Foundation, Hammer Collection, and York City Art Gallery.
Born: 1934 in Hythe, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 10 December 2014
Elected Senior RA: 10 December 2014
Gender: Female
Preferred media: Painting
2016 Horse, Bird, Cat, David Zwirner, London
2015 Rose Wylie, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2014 Rose Wylie: Pink Girls, Yellow curls, Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg
2013, Rose Wylie: Big Boys Sit in the Front, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
BP Spotlight exhibition at Tate Britain
Woof-Woof, Haugar Museum, Tønsberg
2012, After Daphne, Rosenwald-Wolf, Philadelphia
2011, Picture on the Wall, Michael Janssen, Berlin
TalR Studio Space, Copenhagen
Tate Britain, London
Wolfsberg Cont. Art Museum, Germany
Hammer Museum and Collection, Los Angeles
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Royal College of Art, London
Print Collection, Arts Council of England
University College, Oxford
Lund Humphries are planning a monograph on her painting, to be historically and contextually positioned by Clarrie Wallis, Curator at Tate.
Rose Wylie RA Elect
This streetwear inspired baseball cap, exclusive to the RA, features a design inspired by Rose Wylie’s work in the Summer Exhibition 2017, Julieta (Film Notes).
These artistically mismatched socks, printed with figures from Rose Wylie’s painting Face of Africa (Lion), are exclusive to the Royal Academy.
This limited edition oversized T-shirt features details from Rose Wylie’s Barber in Africa work, layering text, buildings and embroidery.