Bryony Rose has focused her practice around the development of ceramic sculptural reliefs and an exploration of narrative that has centred on memories of her Scottish upbringing. She is interested in the relationship between lived experience and memory, using remembered sensations and images as a starting point to complicate narrative and explore emotional response: ‘I am drawn to the inherent eeriness and nostalgia that can be pulled out of these memories – on a personal and cultural level.’ For Rose, the process of creating a pattern and ordering the parts are all a kind of fiction: ‘When memory fails there are optical errors.’
Bryony Rose studied BA Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art graduating in 2015 - where she recieved the W O Hutcheson Prize for Drawing. She is an associate artist of Open School East 2019. She is now based in Glasgow, Scotland. In making decorative tiles and altered slip cast sculptures, Bryony Rose provokes the language of traditional everyday ceramics and in doing so tells semi- autobiographical stories that are loosely remembered and compounded - folklore of the seemingly banal.
Notable exhibitions include Love Bites (CAMPLE LINE, Dumfriesshire 2025), Blinking, glare (Quench Gallery, Margate 2024), Night Car (Kiosk, Glasgow 2023) Glass Houses (McBeans Nursey, Lewes 2020) The Reception Was Brilliant (Open School East, Margate 2029) Digging (Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh 2028) Say What I Am Called (Glasgow International, Glasgow 2018). In 2024, Bryony collaborated with Extra Well (Well Projects, Margate) to create a limited edition print.