(1934 - )
Rose Wylie studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art, and at the Royal College of Art. Wylie represented Great Britain in Women To Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C (2010). Her first retrospective exhibition was held at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings (2012), and was followed by her BP Spotlight exhibition at Tate Britain (2013), which led to museum shows in Philadelphia; Tonsberg, Norway; Wolfsberg, Germany; Tal R’s Project Space, Copenhagen; and the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin. Solo exhibitions in the UK include Quack Quack, Serpentine Sackler Gallery (2017); History Painting at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Plymouth (2018); and the Royal Academy’s 250th Anniversary flags along Bond Street, London (2018).
In 2011, she was given the Paul Hamlyn Award and in 2014, she won the John Moores Painting Prize. In 2018, she was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
