Mary Rolfe

Artist’s Statement

The work orginates, through spontaneity, rhythm and linear movement, expressing energy, form and composition. Art is an attempt to regulate a world of hyperthetical order, into a free and an unintimidating force. I strive to work away from the mere mechanical copy, in an effort to absorb the radiant atmosphere of the nature of life. Often I work in collage with vibrant coloured paper, placed in a naive but complexed way,

As an artist my aims are to bring the elements of natural forms of expression into the realm of the formal establishments and to challenge the perceptions of present visual creations; with the belief that the only knowledge is of the self, and is the only thing really existent, and therefore, reality is subjective.

Biography

BA Fine Art Bournemouth Arts Institute 2004-09

Underground, West Dean Amunitions Depot, West Dean, Salisbury. 2007. An installation contained in a disused weapons inspection labatory. The interior of the labatory was painted Prussian blue, with ripped clothes and hanging sculptures made from domestic materials. The theme represented domestic chaos from destroying infrastructure.

Fusion, The Lighthouse Gallery, Poole 2008

Solo Exhibition: Episode, Peacock Gallery, Upton Park, Poole 2009. An installation exploring the interplay between negative and positive space within the gallery, emphasising the boundary between order and anxiety.

Group Exhibitions include:

Concrete: Free Range, The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London 2009

Fordingbridge Art Club Summer Exhibition 2017: Award Best Acrylic Painting

Bruton Art Society annual exhibitions. Sculpture Award 2017, Still Life Award 2019

Go Figure, Guggleton Farm Arts 2020

Relative Values, Shaftesbury two person Show including sculptor, Corinna Leigh-Turner, 2021

Silk Mill, Frome, group exhibition with Silton Art 2023

44 AD Bath, WESCA group show 2023

Doncaster Art Fair: Response to mental health, 2023

Doncaster Art Fair Open 2023. Worldwide emerging artists

Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show 2023: Best in Show Award. Judged by Anthony Collony President of The Royal Collage of

WESCA, Breathless, Shaftesbury 2023

Spring Open Exhibition Shaftesbury Arts Centre 2024

Doncaster Art Fair: Response to Mental Health 2024

Gillingham Shaftesbury Show, 1st Award, 3rd Award. Judged by David Chandler

Bruton Art Show 71st Exhibition 2024

Silton Art Group Summer Show 2024