Exhibition: Scenes from a Virtual Journal by Rose Parker

A series of paintings by Rose Parker based on language collected from the Facebook posts of her grandmother’s travels in the Arctic Circle.

Rose was intrigued by what her grandmother wrote while travelling because her use of social media was atypical. Most people use photos and captions when posting about their travels, but Rose’s grandmother was unable to do this, as she felt that her camera was repeatedly failing to produce the images she wanted to create. Instead she resorted to language, in order to convey, not just what she saw, but her emotional responses.

Rose thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if she could become a substitute for her grandmother’s camera and turn her descriptions into a visual representation of her experiences. Rose wanted a tangible link between her grandmother’s writing and her paintings and has created, in her works, a typography from words found within the original source text.

Graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2015, with a BA in painting, Rose lives and works in Waltham Forest.