Rose Wylie (b. 1934, Kent, UK) paints with a fearless, freewheeling energy that collapses memory, pop culture, and everyday observation into bold, sprawling compositions. Her images—celebrities, footballers, flowers, film stills—arrive in loose, oversized forms, rendered with a playful immediacy that feels both childlike and incisely knowing. Working on unstretched canvases and embracing irregular scale, Wylie treats painting as a living, thinking process, where mistakes become momentum. Joyous, offbeat, and defiantly independent, her work turns the world’s visual noise into something fresh, funny, and unmistakably her own.
9 April 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
91-year old Rose Wylie’s exuberantly youthful 90-work retrospective at the Royal Academy is proving extremely popular – and you have… Read More
24 February 2026 • Mark Westall
The Royal Academy of Arts presents the largest survey to date of British painter and Royal Academician Rose Wylie
1 April 2025 • Mark Westall
When Found becomes Given precedes Wylie’s forthcoming solo exhibition in the Main Galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, which will open in February 2026.
15 May 2024 • Mark Westall
This summer an exhibition curated by The Courtauld’s MA Curating the Art Museum students will open at The Courtauld Gallery.
18 September 2023 • Mark Westall
Tracey Emin, Peter Doig, Antony Gormley, Jeremy Deller, Rose Wylie, and Ali Smith are among leading artists donating works for a charity auction in aid of The Arts Foundation in the UK
21 August 2023 • Mark Westall
‘Always on My Mind Part 2’ is a contemplative art exhibition curated by Harry Pye, aiming to raise funds for The National Brain Appeal.
6 August 2021 • Mark Westall
Mixing It Up: Painting Today is the Hayward Gallery’s big Autumn exhibition bringing together 31 contemporary painters whose work freely… Read More
30 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Pallant House Gallery has announced a unique response to creativity during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallery has commissioned a model art gallery that will feature original miniature artworks from over 30 leading contemporary British artists
24 January 2019 • Mark Westall
Messums Wiltshire first exhibition of 2019 is PAINT: THE SEEN, THE UNSEEN AND THE IMAGINED featuring works by emerging and established artists
15 May 2018 • Staff
Putting aside my summer-induced dizziness, I ventured around Mayfair to see a very colourful Lolita, one of the masters of arte povera (don’t call him that though!) and a surrealist group show at Sophia Contemporary.
25 April 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
Well it’s hardly news. But suddenly it you can’t move for top shows of female painters! The point of ‘Women Can’t Paint’ at the ASC and Turps Banana galleries is to prove that they can, contrary to Georg Baselitz’s notorious barb.
26 July 2017 • Mark Westall
The Dot Project’s last show explored the use of digital technology as a medium for Contemporary Artists. Now the Gallery is reflecting on a more traditional material, and the basis of art practice: Paper.
7 February 2015 • Staff
She possesses a humorous eye for everyday awkwardness and depicts her subjects with a refreshingly frank honesty.
21 January 2014 • Mark Westall
Artists: Clarisse d’Arcimoles, David Burton, Douglas Pérez Castro, Armen Eloyan, Paa Joe, Freya Pocklington, Mino Maccari, Mehreen Murtaza, Robert Nicol, Elio Rodríguez and Rose Wylie.
18 September 2013 • Mark Westall
The exhibition will feature over 100 contemporary artworks made by women artists and will represent the art collections of seven prominent female art collectors from London, Europe and North America.
