91-year old Rose Wylie’s exuberantly youthful 90-work retrospective at the Royal Academy is proving extremely popular – and you have only a few days left to catch it! Here’s my guide to three favourites, made in conjunction with Jari Lager Gallery, long-associated with Rose and a significant lender to the exhibition. Times and registers merge as she moves from ancient to modern, media to memory, dairy to newspaper, popular to classical, cliché to taboo, without any form of hierarchy. If you want more, you can read what Rose says about six further works in my current ‘Interview of the Month’ at Artlyst.
Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First runs at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, to 19th April, 2026.
