Sarah Rose

Sarah Rose is an independent curator and arts worker based in Sydney. She has curated extensively across independent and council-run spaces, collaborating closely with artists to develop group and solo exhibitions. Her research often explores the body as both a material and a subject, traversing notions of trace and embodied materiality. Curatorially, she frequently focuses on the practices and experiences of women, feminist lenses, and technological interventions within the museological space and wider arts ecology. 

Rose is Co-founder and Project Coordinator for More Than Reproduction, and is on the Board of AIRspace Projects, an artist-run gallery in Marrickville. Rose holds a Masters of Curating & Cultural Leadership with Excellence and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from UNSW Art & Design. Professionally, she currently holds positions at the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) and Create NSW.

#30 | Bust, 2022, drypoint etching on Canson paper, 29.7 x 21 cm, $80.

Bust is a work I recently (mis)printed - it was my first time making again after a long reprieve whilst I focused on my curatorial practice. I didn’t have any intaglio ink available at the studio I was occupying, so I tried to print the work with relief ink – and well, obviously the viscosity wasn’t right. It only printed a partial outline of the female body I had illustrated, excluding the fine cross-hatching marks that denote tone. Although this failed, and is very misaligned, I thought there was something interesting about the absence of ink and the erasure or concealment that has occurred, and how this alludes to the representation of women historically.