Rose Meyer
Rose Meyer’s practice is largely driven by a methodological engagement with, and investigation into, types of information.
Measurement and quantification is part of an investigation, but meyer never hypothesises or analyses for a deeper understanding, preferring to allow an ambiguity of meaning, a realisation that mark-making or language is limited in its ability to explain experience or to convey understanding.
Rather like fieldwork, Meyer’s work is project based, and data is collected and translated into a visual form through mark-making, wherein parameters are set and actions are allowed to play out with no predetermined outcome.
Rose Meyer x mothermother 2020
Webb's Landscape #2, Collaged auction catalogue, 295 x 550mm (Framed), 2021
'Pat and Eileen', Acrylic on wallpaper, 2760 x 532mm, 2020. 'I remember being told a story about my grandparents and their perpetual difference of opinion on what colour to paint over the wallpaper in the hallway. Eileen’s cheerful yellow preference calling out from her potting wheel at one end of the house, Pat’s practical grey reply emerging from his workshop at the other. A playful back and forth over the years, a mantra, a dichotomy of colour describing character more than merely paint preference. Eileen passed in 1992, Pat in 2014. The hallway remained unpainted.' Rose Meyer
'Beneath the stains of time the needle tears a hole', Embroidery on unfinished tablecloth, 1090 x 1060mm, 2021. 'You never finished your project and time crept in, leaving marks you had not intended, I too left accidental accents; blossoms of crimson against the white of our work'. Rose Meyer
Detail of 'Auckland’s Volcanoes Roughly Centered (Little version)', 2019. Silverpoint on paper. 780 x 1060mm. Image courtesy of Cheyenne Rose.
'Auckland’s Volcanoes Roughly Centered (Little version)', 2019. Silverpoint on paper. 780 x 1060mm. Image courtesy of Gareth Moon
Detail of 'Auckland’s Volcanoes Roughly Centered (Little version)', 2019. Silverpoint on paper. 780 x 1060mm. Image courtesy of Cheyenne Rose.