Rosalind Howdle

Rosalind Howdle (b. 1997) is a British-American artist based in London. She studied Painting at the Royal College of Art (2022), and at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL (2019). She has also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (U.S.) and Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Canada). She was awarded the Vanguard Prize in 2019. She attended the RCA as a recipient of the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship (2020-22), and was recently included in Artlyst’s ‘Ones to Watch 2023’.

For Rosalind, figuration is alive. The metamorphoses taking place in the course of painting seem to mimic the biological processes that underpins her subject matter: evolution, reproduction, and self-repair. She enjoys painting growth; things that are somewhere between botanical and animal, microscopic and cosmic. She explores the human experience of being an organism with scientific knowledge. It’s equal parts exciting and unsettling to witness the determination with which organic matter makes more of itself. It is to witness a self-ongoing orchestration infinitely larger than our individual lives - but underpinning our existence. Through painting she taps into the unconscious undercurrent of survival that links her to the food she consumes to the ground she steps on. What happens at this boundary between two entities – in the electric charge of the dividing line, which often splices the painting into above-ground and below-ground, into day and night, into the visible and invisible processes of growth, intrigues her.