Searchin'
plaster, watercolour, yacht varnish, Guinness Cans
dimensions of installation is variable, each of the 48 cans is 18x8x8cm
2021

Goodbye!
plaster, watercolour, yacht varnish. 378 'post it notes' hung on a wall in a grid by 2 25mm steel pins
150x310x8cm
2022

All the Tired Horses
Plaster, wood, chicken wire, cement, watercolour, yacht varnish, aluminium pin badges, freesias
120x110x65cm per boat
2022

Dead Ant (Here's to you)
wood, mattress topper, gaffa tape, plaster, watercolour, yacht varnish.
44x62x32cm
2021

Always on my Mind (I'll build you a monument)
Cement, plaster, sand, yacht varnish, rock
50x45x55cm
2022

Rosie Dowd-Smyth

Rosie Dowd-Smyth lives and works In Glasgow. In 2021, she had her first solo show at the Pipe Factory in Glasgow, and has been selected for the RSA annual exhibition. Dowd-Smyth graduated from Goldsmiths University of London in 2017, and was subsequently awarded a year-long residency in Hamburg, Germany. Following this, a residency at Can Serrat in Barcelona in 2019. Dowd Smyth has exhibited extensively in Germany and the UK, including: Air Gallery Altrincham, Boecho Gallery London, ASA Studios Hamburg, Galerie Der HFBK Hamburg and Harts Lane Gallery London. Rosie Dowd-Smyth was an Associate Lecturer at Warwickshire College in BA Fine Art and Foundation Art & Design, a guest Lecturer in Surrealist Environments at Wayne State University in Detroit, and runs many sculpture-based workshops.

Dowd-Smyth's work is playful, earnest and absurd. She advocates for the DIY, with the act of making prior to theory. Predominantly a sculptor, Rosie’s work continuously refers back to her own hand within the work. Pinning down her work is hard, just as you think you have it she wrong foots you and goes charging off in strange but equally hilarious directions. The humour in the work is also tinged with melancholy – it makes us look at the weirdness of the world, our ridiculousness and our unspoken fears. She consistently enquires into what it means to remember something, and how ideas of the monumental coincide with the heart-breaking personal. Finally, the work takes a good hard look at what it means to be hopeful.