Amy Rosa
Amy Rosa is an award-winning artist based in Scotland. She makes live art, intimate performance, large scale sculptural installations, writing and photographic work about her experience of the world as a Disabled woman living with multiple chronic illnesses including Fibromyalgia and complex PTSD and speaks on panels on topics such as disability, class and living with multiple barriers.
She enjoys playing with perception of time and how it can be altered and explored through quiet, repeated acts and heightened states of reality. The act of installing structures for the purpose of meditation and reflection and creating symbolic action based works stem heavily from her personal fascination with ritual and nature and her own familial history of witchcraft.
She is in a position as an artist not only to provide vital representation for those who are often sidelined but to help lead the conversation on changing how Disabled people are seen and treated by society and governments. She wants to open up conversations around access, the politics of being a disabled person in the current hostile political climate and the other intersections of modes of oppression many of us experience.
Photo Credit Tiu Makkonen
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Amy Rosa
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Fife, Scotland.
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Amy Rosa
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Email: amyrosamclachlan@gmail.com
Website: https://amyrosaliveart.com/
Twitter: @AmyRosaLiveArt
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amyrosaliveart/
“Much like the condition itself, the origins of the work remain unknown, and the audience are left alone to piece together their experience of it. Trying to find the language to explain this is difficult, with the piece spinning on the very idea of the unsayable, uncommunicable… I only graced it for a while. Caught a glimpse of something – then left. What I saw doesn’t exist anymore. It’s already gone. The body in change. It’ll never come back again. Bodies always changing, slipping from view, growing into something else.”
Andy Edwards, Exeunt Magazine