Original Prints
Original Prints
Rosie is a printmaker.
All the prints in this gallery are original – made by hand not reproductions of other work. Rosie loves the reversal of images – mirroring in print making, not knowing how successful a plate is until the first pull is made. A benefit of a dyslexic brain! She works with mount board – often from life, cutting and scoring a surface to generate an image – printing both in relief (rolling ink on) and intaglio (rubbing ink into the surface). She produces collagraph prints – a collage textured stuck down surface to generate an image. She has Japanese wood cutting tools to work on on ply and block. She also makes dry point engravings on recycled UPVC – CD cases and off cuts / waster from a sheet plastic business. All the left over ink is used for mono printing. The editions are usually very small: 5- 10 prints from one plate, the largest edition made is 50 prints – adding to their uniqueness. Rosie has a mobile A2 printing press that most of her prints are made on – She also uses this for demonstration and teaching days.
Eco Prints
Eight prints from an ongoing series: each with an animal in-front of a spiraling motif, they represent Rosie’s muse into the effect we are having on our planet. There is time to change behaviours – consumption and pollution and ways of interacting with our environment, and each other, trickle down capitalist systems needs challenging and changing. Rosie is inspired in her life choices through a love of the natural world, and ongoing observation. The prints have a spiraling background – slightly frightening – calling for action and change, to reconsider consumption to develop an environmental and social justice for future generations, before it is too late. Recently, Rosie made visual connections with the spiral motif and doughnut economic models – she made the first of these prints in 2016, an economic model founded in principals of social justice over capital gain. The 8 prints were exhibited with Uncovered Collective – in Im So Sickle, a provocative anti capitalist exhibition in Stoke Newington, London Nov 2022: https://www.uncoveredcollective.org/sickle-of-it
Currently this series of 8 prints (soon to be 10) are listed with Artsy – as part of SHIM Art for social justice, for further info and to purchase, please email Rosie, or use the link below to Artsy. Some of this series have been exhibited at Miami Art Week, Arteenth Conneticut and Exquisite Codes Berlin, a publication of Art for Social Justice will be available in 2024. If you are interested in purchasing any of these prints please email rosieburnsartist@gmail.com.
Time to Jump off!
A feeling Rosie got joining the commuters on the trains to London from Southend - like a rat forever climbing the wheel of capital gain. Japanese Wood cut print - edition of 50.
How Much More?
A hamster ramming its pouches with digital devices ... over consumption, an image generated after observing the fetish like craving for new / more / faster / bigger / better digital devices - without any real consideration of their intended use or tiny functional difference - a 24-month phone contract, the expectation that 2 years is obsoleting. Edition of 50 hand pulled prints - . Image size 23x23cm,
Would you like Orangutan wth that?
We all have choices that can help our planet recover and sustain us, Rosie has chosen not to consume palm oil. The orangutan - meaning old man of the forest - is at risk of losing more habitat to intensive mono-crop farming, to a point of potential obliteration and extinction - this culture has to change - without biodiversity we have very little resources left. Edition of 50 hand pulled prints.
LDPE Feed
Rosie supports the RSPB (a wild bird charity) and their campaign for protecting one of the largest seabirds on the planet - this led to the creation of this print - the horrible fact that albatross are feeding their chicks plastic bags - LDPE - thinking they are squid or jellyfish. Something that can be reapplied to people - we all now carry micro-plastics in our blood, on a cellular level. Edition of 50 hand pulled prints
Otter's Got a Bottle
Rosie took part in a UK national plastic waste count, alongside long walks by the River Torridge - the home of the Tarka Trail (named after an Otter) led to the creation of this print. Building an eco-friendly world is a big challenge, avoiding single use plastics (#bansingleuseplastics -) is a small step we can all take to reduce pollution that often ends up in our waterways. We live in a beautiful, fragile environment, single use plastic is affecting Earth's coastal communities, consumption habits must change to protect and enhance our relationship with our seas and oceans. Edition of 50 hand pulled prints.
When's the Bus?
Rosie blessed to live in North Devon, rural England, away from the 'rat race', but as the 'energy crisis' is becoming a media frenzied, heat or food, panic nation, she is utterly bemused by the ever expanding volume of cars - bigger and bigger tarmac coloured people moving machines, with increasingly single occupancy - at the same time the public transport system is in free fall to oblivion ... she waited 90 minutes for a bus that was coated with an advert ensuring a reliable 15-minute service ... as the huge empty tanks pumped diesel fumes past her face … When's the bus?
NUTS!
A disposable battery stores energy but cannot feed you, ‘Nuts?’ - we all still rely on disposable batteries … Rosie feels a great deal of grief about mankind spiralling into an abyss, and this series is a reflection of her muse into this. Consumption is generated through a failing economic system - here the doughnut economic model is more obvious. Edition of 50 hand pulled prints - 30 available 45x45cm approx, image size 23x23cm
How Much More?
A hamster ramming its pouches with digital devices ... over consumption, an image generated after observing the fetish like craving for new / more / faster / bigger / better digital devices - without any real consideration of their intended use or tiny functional difference - a 24-month phone contract, the expectation that 2 years is obsoleting. Edition of 50 hand pulled prints - . Image size 23x23cm,
