Feat. in Aesthetica

Delighted that my piece, FINE, currently part of the ING Discerning Eye 2023 exhibition has been featured in the Aesthetica shortlist write up:

ING Discerning Eye 2023: Visual Surprises

“The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition returns for its 25th anniversary in 2023. Each year, the annual arts event champions UK creativity through an exhibition at London’s Mall Galleries. Now, its shortlist comprises over 600 small artworks as chosen by well-known faces from the worlds of art, music and sport.

Where to start with a shortlist of this length? Shown at the top of the page is Rossanne Pellegrino’s FINE (top of page), part of a wider body of work about motherhood, domesticity, memory, identity and migration. It taps into the idea of “Expanded Photography”, which can be traced back to the turn of the 20th century, when Cubist artists like Picasso and Braque first began experimenting with collage – adding newsprint and wallpaper to canvas. Simultaneously, in post-WWI Germany, Hannah Höch (1889-1978) was making political collages and pioneering the form of photomontage, appropriating and recombining images and text from mass media. The idea: to critique popular culture, the failings of the Weimar Republic and the socially constructed roles of women at the time. Almost 100 years later, the format remains a powerful tool for communicating important socio-political and feminist messages – from the Guerrilla Girls to Lorna Simpson and, now, Pellegrino. “I am a bowerbird for art materials. I use bold colours, pastel hues, humour and unexpected objects – domestic items, pompoms and glitter – to explore themes in an accessible way.”

You can read the full article here.

ING Discerning Eye 2023, Mall Galleries, London, 17 – 26 November | discerningeye.org