I am currently designing a book that documents the work of the visual artist Rose Frain. This survey publication has been realised with an award from Creative Scotland and will be published by Sissy Graffiti in September 2019, with launch events and related exhibitions at the Glasgow Women’s Library, Newcastle University, and Goldsmiths College London. The book features 18 of the artist’s major projects, citing stylistic and conceptual developments; with critical essays, full chronology and bibliography.
Rose Frain has a fascinating oeuvre that covers several decades. The project is extremely relevant in the context of significant women artists and apt too since the themes of her work are so acutely relevant today.
– Adele Patrick, Glasgow Womens' Library
This is the Sissy Graffiti logo that I have designed for the book, based on a rubber stamp that the artist used on her work; the name is taken from a suite of paintings produced by Rose in the late 1980s. I’m very much looking forward to the publication of the book and it has been a pleasure to find out more about Rose’s extensive practice while working on the book with the artist and the editor, Jane Warrilow.