| Rose Frain | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Field | Painting, Sculpture, Installation art |
Rose Frain is an artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland,[1] exhibiting nationally and internationally, whose works range from painting and sculpture to installation.[2]
Frain studied at Durham University, the Department of Fine Art Newcastle, where she was taught by Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton; Edinburgh University and the University of Leeds.[2]
She was the Scottish Arts Council resident artist at The British School at Rome between 1999 and 2000.[2], where she created the installation Radio Vaticana, citing electromagnetic radiation from the Vatican's radio transmitters.[3] In 2007 she received a Scottish Arts Council Visual Artists' Award.[2]
For the Edinburgh Art Festival 2009, she produced Alexandria Light -an installation informed by her residency during November 2008 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt.[1][4][5] Frain's Artist Book Sappho Fragments, Love songs to Adonis and the community of women, was acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum Special Collections, Word and Image.[6]
Her ongoing project is This Time in History[1]
Frain has been a visual arts Advisor to the Scottish Arts Council, now Creative Scotland.[2] She has taught at Northumbria University and Sheffield Hallam University,[3] and is invited as Guest Artist nationally and internationally, for example The School of Visual Arts New York, and The Institute of Romance Studies University of London.
Rose Frain's website www.rosefrain.com