Lily Rose Fine is a British/Canadian painter. Interested in our human need for meaning, Fine picks apart potent symbols to depict ineffable personal experiences, veiled in enough ambiguity to act as a conduit for other’s self-reflection. Portraits of herself and those close to her are used to explore themes of persona, platonic intimacy, female friendship, and gender expression. She pays close attention to pigment relationships, using layered glazes to create harmonious hue shifts. The warm light, saturated undertones, and flattened, shadowed backdrops allude to a theatrical space where the observed meets the symbolic. Collecting her own personal language of iconography inspired by relics, antique objects, cinema, theatre, and art history, she examines the threshold between reality and spectrality, public and private life, divulgence and secrets.
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Education
2022-23 The Drawing Year postgraduate program, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2015-19 OCAD University, Bachelor of Design, Toronto, ON
Teaching Experience
2023-24 Young Artists Tutor, Royal Drawing School, London, UK
Exhibitions
2024
The Spirit of Charleston, group exhibition, Watts Contemporary Gallery, Guildford, UK 2024 Emblems, three person exhibition, Partnership Editions, London, UK
2024 Art on a Postcard Summer Auction, group exhibition, Bomb Factory, London, UK
2024
Gathering Relief, group exhibition, Appach Gallery, London, UK
2023 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, group exhibition,Mall Galleries, London, UK
2023 Drawing Year 2023 End of Year Exhibition, group exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2023 Open Studios, group exhibition, SPACE Studios Hackney, London, UK
2023 Best of the Drawing Year 2023, group exhibition, Christie’s, London, UK
2023 Two person exhibition, The Cultch Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022
Art on a Postcard Winter Auction, group exhibition, Dreweatts, London, UK
2022 Royal Watercolour Society Open 2022, Bankside Gallery, group exhibition, London, UK
2020 Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Mall Galleries, group exhibition, London, UK
2019 Open House, group exhibition, 401 Richmond, Toronto, ON
2019 OCADU Grad Ex 104, group exhibition, Toronto, ON
2018 House Guests, group exhibition, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON
Awards & Residencies
2024 ACS Studio Prize, Shortlist
2024 Dumfries House Residency, Scotland
2022 Jackson’s Painting Prize, Shortlist
2019 401 Richmond Career Launcher Prize, OCAD University
2019 Project 31 Award, OCAD University
2018 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, Shortlist, National Portrait Gallery
Collections
2023 Royal Collection 2023 Sir Mike Moritz Collection
