Rose Lodge

Hello, I’m Rose Lodge

I curate urban fragments and found objects suggestive of narrative to assemble stories. Adding domestic waste packaging along with natural forms such as dead foliage, stones or feathers, the grouped items become a still life, an assemblage or simple diorama. Photographed from various angles whilst utilising projected light to cast shadow worlds, the juxtaposed objects with their exaggerated silhouettes, take on a surreal quality where pareidolic imagery allows multiple interpretations.

Then I begin to draw using the basic implements of pencil, charcoal, brush or dip-pen, and more recently, silverpoint. Drawing with silverpoint serves a twofold purpose; the quiet meditative process and delicate mark-making seeks to slow down our fast-paced lives, whilst the silver rendering of the curated fragments, once so carelessly discarded, also raises the subjects’ status.

I also create miniature concertina books to unfurl stories. During 2022, whilst completing my masters in authorial illustration, I began exploring playful nonsense rhymes to approach serious issues, such as domestic waste, focusing on the profusion of plastic.

I find myself writing in equal measure to my drawing practice, albeit scrawled throughout various sketch/notebooks and scraps of paper. The two processes act as a dialogue, to help make sense of chaos, sifting through the cacophony of internal voices. My plan is to use this online space as an ongoing portfolio and journal. This will help me to grow in confidence through slow, steady practice. So I invite helpful, gentle feedback…