Rose Wylie

b. 1934

British artist Rose Wylie studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art, Kent, England, and the Royal College of Art, London, from which she graduated in 1981. The artist’s first solo exhibition took place in 1985 at the Trinity Arts Centre, in Kent, where she currently lives and works.

Wylie is known for her punchy, punk-ish aesthetic and often large-scale, seemingly naive paintings that bring together influences as wide-ranging as football to the Royal Family. Wylie only began to receive critical attention in her seventies. A breakthrough moment came when she won the Paul Hamlyn Award for visual arts, followed by her first retrospective at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings.

Wylie’s work can be found in collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including Arario Museum, Seoul; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Space K, Seoul; Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany; Tate, United Kingdom; and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.