Rose, Colin
Colin Rose was born in 1950 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and studied at Newcastle Polytechnic before undertaking post-graduate studies in sculpture at Newcastle University.
The hallmark of Colin Rose's work is that he uses trees in which to place it. In his early work, he found 'homes' for objects in the trees around his studio, but in 1984, with an opportunity to exhibit at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, he considered the idea of a tree being a place in the landscape, offering a harmony with the elements. This in turn related his work to the landscape. His often large-scale metal or wooden structures either thread their way through the leaves or nestle in the cleft of a branch. With these sculptures' Rose seeks to complete the composition of the trees that have been thrown into visual imbalance by losing branches or sustaining some kind of damage in the past. Colin Rose works frequently to commission and has exhibited regularly in Britain and at times in Europe.
"A large proportion of my work has been concerned with the elements - sun, rain, wind, clouds, waves - and the natural rhythms and cycles underlying them. In recent works I have turned this focus inward to look at very make up of what we see, what we 'are'. This insight informs and runs through all my work from large-scale site-specific landscape pieces to small self-referential pieces that belong in the hand."