Rose is an artist, Senior Lecturer of Fine Art and researcher in the Cultural and Communications Research Institute (CCRI) at Sheffield Hallam University. She will commence an Early Career Research and Innovation Fellowship at her university January 2025.
Rose has presented at many international conferences, discussing arts methods, borders and surveillance, archival practices, the politics of care and communities, photography, arts practice, technology and representation. Publications and outputs include exhibitions, texts, conference presentations, artist talks and awards.
She is currently working on new research funded by BA/Leverhulme centred on information, trust and community cohesion. This interdisciplinery project brings together artists with activists, creative technologists, early career researchers and researchers in the arts and security.
Latest work UNLAND (NeMe 2023) was developed in partnership with NeMe, Cyprus and supported by Arts Council England's DYCP Funding as well as the Ministry for Culture Cyprus, CYENS and the Art Design and Media Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University. Work from this exhibition was purchased by the Cypriot government collection.
She exhibited work from her doctoral portfolio at the HPO Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University (2022). This body of work was initially curated by Mareike Spendel and exhibited at Decad, Berlin Oct – Jan 2020.
In 2017 she exhibited Come & Go an interactive dance installation at the Museums of Sheffield. She received an award for this work a part of the Surveillance Studies Art Prize 2018 and presented research at the Surveillance Beyond Borders and Boundaries Conference 2018 in Aarhus. An artists publication Above and Beyond was made in collaboration with artist - writer Emma Cocker in response to the work.
She exhibited work with Abandon Normal Devices in Castleton, September 2017, and exhibited work at Kabinet Muz; Brno, Czech Republic November 2017. She continues to screen works internationally over the year in venues such as the Filmwinter Festival; Stuttgart, Home Artists Film Weekender; Manchester, The London Art Fair, Golden Cinema; Sydney, Hull City of Culture, Visual Container TV; International Video Art Channel; France, The Swedenburg Society; London, The Nunnery Gallery; London, and BOX; Video Art Project Space, Milan.
She is a board member of Bloc Projects, part of the steering committee of the National Association of Fine Art Educators (NAFAE) and founder of the annual Artist’s Journey conference held in Sheffield. She is active in working groups at part of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action Tool Kit of Care.
Rose received an award at the Becks Futures Student Prize for Digital Video 2004 for the multi-screen animation Platform. It continues to be screened nationally and internationally including the Centre for Contemporary Art; Glasgow, NeMe; Cyprus and has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art; London.
Her digital short BOX represented Western Europe in the One Minute Awards; Amsterdam, it is screened widely including galleries such as Castlefield Gallery; Manchester, Peloton Gallery; Australia and was screened at EYE: Amsterdam and BORN ELECTRIC; Amsterdam curated by Lucette der Borg, Sacha Bronwasser: Cinema Zuid.
She was shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Moving Image for the six screen animation One Lime Street, made in collaboration with Kypros Kyprianou. This was exhibited as part of Trade City; Contemporary Art Manchester, Novi Sad; Serbia, G39 Gallery; Cardiff and Site Gallery; Sheffield. It was commissioned by Arts Council of England and Site Gallery Sheffield.
Before she came to Sheffield she lived and worked in London where she founded the educational charity Zoom In Photography and worked at Chisenhale Studios as Education Co-ordinator. She has worked freelance for Site Gallery, Tate Britain, and Whitechapel Gallery and provided master classes and artist talks for festivals, arts organisations and universities.
