Fiction’s Edge
An exhibition of paintings by Rosey Prince
12 June to 22 June 2025
Preview Thursday 12 June 6 to 9pm
Opening times 12 to 6pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday 16 and 17 June

You walk through the woods on the cracked earth, having passed a pink soiled mattress and a broken chair on your way in, there are rags of plastic hanging from the falling trees, rusting metal and rotting tyres half buried, sun bleached viridian or blue tarpaulin, something you can’t identify, still jarring; then up ahead you see the sun break through the clouds above the treeline and hear a lone buzzard’s mournful cry, and on you go…
Fiction’s Edge is an exhibition of recent landscape paintings by Rosey Prince. These are not traditional landscape paintings of idealised views of a green and pleasant land but a darker look at the impact of human presence on our environment. The paintings address this idea depicting edgelands and marginal places often veering into imaginary and fantastical landscapes through an exploration of the painting process itself. Inspired by real places that she knows well or has passed through, the paintings are made in her studio from drawings, memory and imagination with a blurring of boundaries between abstract and figuration, the familiar and strange and the real and imagined. The work has been described as a lament for the degradation of the environment and the anxiety this causes interpreted through the mark making and application of paint.

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