Rose Frain is a visual artist based in

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'', 1 September 2009, retrieved 2010-01-25 exhibiting nationally and internationally, whose works range from painting and sculpture to installation.Visual Arts advisors
, Scottish Arts Council, retrieved 2010-01-25 Frain studied at

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, the Department of Fine Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, (now

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) where she was taught by

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, Richard Hamilton, Louisa Hodgson and art historian Ralph Holland; the

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and the

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She was the Scottish Arts Council resident artist at The

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between 1999 and 2000, where she created the installation Radio Vaticana, citing electromagnetic radiation from the

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's radio transmitters.Vatican brought to account by artist
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'', 12 May 2000, retrieved 2010-01-25 In 2007 she received a major Scottish Arts Council Visual Artists' Award. For the

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2009, she produced Alexandria Light -an installation informed by her residency during November 2008 at the

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The Art Festival & The International Festival, Edinburgh

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'', 9 August 2009, retrieved 2010-02-16 Frain's One of a Kind Artist Book ''Sappho Fragments, Love songs to Adonis and the community of women'', was acquired by the

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Special Collections, Word and Image.Reynolds, Margaret (2000) ''The Sappho Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan, , p. 373 In 2011 her solo installation 'What Escapes' was shown at

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. From July 2014 to February 2015 her solo installation 'This Time in History, What Escapes (2014- 1914)'' was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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In 2017 her solo installation This Time in History, What Escapes /Afghanistan was exhibited in Summerhall Edinburgh Festival programme. Frain's Catalogue Raisonné – a hardback survey publication, title 'Rose Frain', with extensive colour images and artist-authored texts, presenting eighteen major projects covering more than five decades of art making, was published in 2019 by Sissy Graffiti. Edited by Jane Warrilow, designed by James Brook, with full chronology and related critical essays, the book was realised via an award from Creative Scotland. Related survey exhibitions were held at Glasgow Women's Library (September 2019), Newcastle University Department of Fine Art (October 2019) and the Special Collections Exhibition Space, Goldsmiths, University of London (November 2019-January 2020), along with new works. She has been a visual arts Advisor to the

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, now Creative Scotland., taught at

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and

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, and is invited as Guest Artist nationally and internationally, for example to The

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New York, The Institute of Romance Studies

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, the Hatton Gallery Newcastle. Rose Frain's continuing project is This Time in History. She is a recipient of an Art360 Foundation Scotland bursary to conserve and promote her artistic legacy.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Frain, Rose Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British women artists Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Artists from Edinburgh Alumni of Newcastle University