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Artist Statement

Rosemarie Cameron-Stone is an emerging artist currently in her final year at Plymouth University.

She has previously gone to Weymouth College, to study for 2 years a Degree in Art and Design practice.

Rosemarie Cameron-Stone is an emerging artist whose work focuses primarily on folklore, myths, and storytelling, often directly inspired by local epic tales. She is interested in local and world mythologies, how they locate us in the environment and beyond, and map our own psychic drives. Her practice includes performance, filmmaking, photography, and movement.

Rosemarie is inspired by the choreographer Mathew Bourne as he interprets well-known stories and puts his own twist to the story.

She is also inspired by Paul Rego as like Bourne she tells well known fairy tale and makes them into her own work and theme.

She is a year BA (HONS) Fine Art Degree at the University of Plymouth and will graduate in 2024. The Folklore myth ‘The White Lady’ and has created a performance piece.

She has exhibited her work in Weymouth Central Library, and Weymouth College.

The White Lady

May 31st 2024

Rosemarie has created a piece based on a local Folklore Myth in Plymouth (Plymstock, Radford), The story of the White Lady features the tale of a ‘Lady’ who was drowned in Radford Lake in the 18th century, in what can only be described as an unfortunate event. After being helped by the maid to secretly meet the acquaintance whom she had been forbidden to see, she fell into the lake and was pulled down by her dress and lost her life.
Ever since her death, it is reported and often said, that her ghost can be seen in and around the area where she died and used to live. No one knows if she is friendly or not, perhaps we'll never know.
For her research and development for this piece, Rosemarie visited Radford House and performed the dance piece here, which also happens to be beside the lake. The final performance is 4 minutes long with sound taken from Rosemarie’s text of the story.
It is hoped this piece will highlight these unfortunate events and the story that has existed for many years, yet not so many locals are aware of The White Lady. This contemporary visual piece of movement serves to uncover this tragic narrative and place Radford on the map.
this piece was helped by Curt Waters ( his website - https://curtwaters07942.wixsite.com/curtwaters)

Icarus

January 2024
Rosemarie has created a piece based on a well known painting by Peter Brueghel and Greek mythology, The Fall of Icarus and its well known quote “Don't fly too close to the sun or your wax wings will melt”.
She took a very different approach to this piece especially in the media and that was by doing a performance piece and video. She also collaborated with Curt Waters ( his website - https://curtwaters07942.wixsite.com/curtwaters) as he helped film and edit the film together (Rosemarie does have a background in dance as she is an ex dancer herself)

The way that she has approached this myth is with a modern twist as well as Brueghel's theme’s. So Rosemarie decided to base it in the 21st century with having in the background; cars, buses, walkers, dog walkers and basic everyday life like Brueghel did in his painting as his painting was on The Fall of Icarus but he wasn't the main focus in the painting it was the farmer ploughing the field because life still goes on in the cayos. But in rosemaries case she's done hers based on the events of 2020 as the world came to a stop due to covid19 as one of the rules there was what you were aloud out for 30 minutes a day for a walk so rosemarie has purposely added in everyday life in her piece because even though a tragedy is about to occur life still goes on.

Dracula

June 2023
Rosie is interested in making work about world mythology and epic stories, as myths provide meaning and help us to understand what it is to be human.

Rosie Stone is an emerging artist currently in her final year at Weymouth College, studying for a Degree in Art and Design practice.

Rosie is interested in making work about world mythology and epic stories, as myths provide meaning and help us to understand what it is to be human.

Dracula is the focus of this piece is Dracula. Rosemarie is creating her own modern-day version of the story in stop-motion short films. She has explored the experience of seeing an apparition, and has portrayed the sense of a supernatural predatory power which has created an atmosphere of fear. She also made these films into intimate books, so the viewer is in their own world looking at these stalking-like images. This leads the viewer to question if they have been in a similar situation. Rosemarie also is exploring the story of Dracula written by Bram Stoker. She is examining the idea of reincarnation and eternal love in a series of images.

Rosemarie has explored this theme through a range of media and techniques, which include photography, film, Photoshop and book making.

The space that we occupy

December 2021

Here I was looking at the ideas of occupying a space by using boxes to create a new space for the view like yourself to fill.
I am exploring the metaphor of boxes. By creating new spaces in which to engage you as viewer in different concepts. These “contained exhibitions” are curated stories inspired by a visit to the Pitt Rivers and Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, responding to diverse histories, such as Egyptian tombs and Japanese masks.

Typography

May 2022

Here I was working alongside/ with the British Dyslexic Associating to promote there work and who they are but, as well putting a positive message out to the public about what dyslexia is for them and what I dose as well.

Obsessions

March 2022

Here I was using digital photography to create this collection.
With this piece I focused on my own obsessions with dance, nature and fairy tales .

Monochromatic Gallery

November 2021

Here I was looking at the ideas of colour by only using one colour and variations of that colour.
The materials that I have used are acrylic paint and cyanotype.

Juxtapose

June 2022

Here I was using mixed media (wire, wax, acrylic paint, Fethers, Photoshop, glitter, and fake gold leaf).
This piece was focused on juxtaposing - two things that are the polar opposite of each other. So, I chose to do mine on Heaven and Hell or Good and Evil.

The Roy Dog

December 2022

The Roy Dog myth goes as follows:

The animal is described as a shaggy black dog, as tall as a man, with large fiery eyes, one green, one red, and entwined in his mane of dark fur can be seen the freshly plucked eyes of his human victims.
The creature emerges from the watery depths to seize any traveller passing by Cave Hole on Portland Bill, and drags them down into his dark watery domain.

Rosie Stone is an emerging artist currently in her final year at Weymouth College, studying for a Degree in Art and Design practice.
Rosie is interested in making work about world mythology and epic stories. as myths provide meaning and help us to understand what it is to be human.
The focus of this piece is a local myth of Portland Bill; The Roy Dog.
The theme has been explored through a range of techniques: monoprint charcoal, paint, plaster and Indian ink; and culminates in two paintings which encompass the whole narrative.

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