Rosie Reed (b.1991) is a London-based artist and curator of The Amber Room. She completed her BFA at The Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University, in 2013 and her MFA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2017.
Reed’s work engages with the notion of surfaces disclosing histories, revealing tiers of time and movement. Exuberance, excess and the non-hierarchical use of colour and texture is prevalent in her practice. Fascinated by the obtrusive, gaudy yet irresistible nature of over-saturation and the cyclical use of material, she grinds down and recycles elements of past work to use as aggregate that makes up details of future work.
In 2022, Reed had her first UK solo presentation, 'What the Water Gave Me,' at Quench Gallery in Margate. Recent group exhibitions include '(Dis)embodied Burdens' at Cooke Latham Gallery in London (2022); 'Don’t Touch Me' at The Amber Room in London (2020); and 'Tidy' at Sothu, Zurich (2020). Reed has also exhibited at the Barbican Arts Group Trust, Fold Gallery and Hauser & Wirth. She completed an artist residency at Palazzo Monti, Italy, in 2019.