Featured Artist: Rosalind Lawless: Ground Floor Gallery

Rosalind Lawless was born in Glasgow in 1978 and studied Fine Art Printmaking at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen from 1999 to 2002. She graduated with a Masters of Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London in 2004. She teaches art part time, and exhibits regularly.

"My practice is strongly influenced by my immediate surroundings. I use commonplace imagery to organise the pictorial space, using forms that occupy and give perspective within the substrate. I continue to explore the imagined and observed within architecture through the process of layering, repetition, cut-outs, washout and transforming. The detail and form within architecture, intricate lines, structures and vast space are continually explored in my work.

Looking always at the leftover cut paper and other materials and surplus that were continuously produced by my printmaking process, I asked myself what would happen if I rearranged these materials and created something new? What if I introduced found materials?

The found and recycled is becoming paramount to my process. Exploring them is key to methods I want to explore. Working with collage, alongside a willingness to experiment and allow the process to bring its own results, creates unexpected outcomes, a sense of surprise and new meaning."

In 2019 Lawless was awarded a scholarship at the International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, she was shortlisted for the Anna Lobner/Dusseldorf Exchange and was awarded the Bet Low Trust Award. Lawless has collections in PATHFOOT, Stirling University, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Pallant House Gallery and Museum, Chichester.

"Through "Found Materials" Rosalind Lawless explores how and when the artist arrives at the image. A clearing out of established practices and forms to enable an authentic interrogation of the creative process. Deconstructing the moment when fragments of environment, object and experience come together and resonate; become important. A process Lawless describes as "making within the found." Kate MacKay.