Rose English
Rose English emerged from the Conceptual art, dance and feminist scenes of 1970s Britain to become one of the most influential performance artists working today.
Rose English (b. 1950, Hereford, UK) has been writing, directing and performing her own work for over forty years in venues as various as Tate Britain, Royal Court, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Adelaide Festival and Lincoln Center, New York. Her productions feature a diversity of co-performers including musicians, dancers, circus performers, magicians and horses.
English's shows range from her site-specific performances and collaborations of the 1970s, including Quadrille, Berlin and Mounting, her acclaimed solos of the 1980s, including Plato’s Chair and The Beloved to her large-scale spectaculars of the 1990s, including Walks on Water, The Double Wedding and Tantamount Esperance. Her internationally celebrated solo with a horse - My Mathematics - was produced by Michael Morris’s Cultural Industry and a series of vignettes with horses were presented by The Banff Centre, Canada and The Serpentine Gallery, London.
Her installation STORYBOARD, commissioned by National Glass Centre featured in Interloqui – a group exhibition at Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea to coincide with the 54th Venice Biennale, 2011. Other recent exhibitions include an installation composed of elements and documents relating to her 1975 performance, Quadrille, at Richard Saltoun and Karsten Schubert (London, 2013); Quadrille Karsten Schubert's 2013 Frieze Masters 'Spotlight' stand; The Eros of Understanding at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2014 and A Premonition of the Act at Camden Art Centre, London 2015.
Her awards include the Time Out Performance Award, the Wingate Scholarship and the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists.
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Rose EnglishPrincess – The Bride of the Idea, 1994Site specific performance
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Rose EnglishMy Mathematics, 1992Perfomance
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Rose EnglishThe Double Wedding, 1991Performance
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Rose EnglishThee Thy Thou Thine, 1986Performance
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Rose EnglishBerlin, 1976Perfomance
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Rose EnglishPegasus, 1975Photograph76.2 x 101.6 cm | 30 x 40 in
© Michael Bennett
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Art Cologne 2015
16 - 19 Apr 2015Karsten Schubert at Art Cologne 2015. 16-19 April 2015.Read more -
Frieze Masters 2013
17 - 20 Oct 2013Karsten Schubert, Frieze Masters Spotlight 2013: Rose English. October 17–20, 2013.Read more -
Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands
23 Jan - 1 Mar 2013Karsten Schubert and Richard Saltoun are pleased to announce the group exhibition 'Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands'. 23 January–1 March 2013.Read more
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Rose English: From the Embodied Object to the Charmed Arena
INSIDE/OUT Lecture Series at Leeds School of Arts November 29, 2022Leeds School of Arts presents Rose English in conversation with Dr Kiff Bamford, offering an insight into Rose’s five decades of collaborative creative practice. Leeds...Read more -
Rose English In Conversation with Jean Wainwright
Online Artist Narratives series July 19, 2022On Thursday 21 July, Join Rose English and art historian and curator Jean Wainwright for an online talkRead more -
Life of an Artwork: Quadrille by Rose English
Tate Film January 21, 2022Tate launches Life of an Artwork: Quadrille by Rose English, a short documentary about the the artist's 1975 performance and how it lives on in the Tate collection. Rose English and Gates Sofer, Sculpture Conservator, discuss what it means for performance art to take on a new life inside the walls of an art museum.Read more -
Rose English: Various Forms of Fire
Book Launch and Exhibition at Graphic Workshop, Næstved November 18, 2021Rose English launches her new artist’s bookVarious forms of Fire alongside an exhibition of new work in the Project Room / Graphic Workshop Næstved at...Read more