Exhibitions
taypani milaythina-tu: Return to Country | Cheryl Rose
Biography
Cheryl Rose is a pataway/Burnie-based artist located on the beautiful North West of lutruwita/Tasmania, working in a range of mediums, from paints to printing and etchings, and expanding to digital and videoing.
Cheryl is inspired by coastal lands, sea and all that’s within, place, and community and culture. She is involved with facilitating workshops for community involving Elders and Youth, and the Pets project with UTAS. Cheryl’s Commissions include the Burnie Hospital, Burnie Legal Aid office, facilitating the benefits of art to clients in the AOD sector, and working with Elders on the Mersey Hospital Site – which has been a highlight and her biggest achievement, climbing nine-metre-high scaffolding to undertake the mural.
Artist statement
The Red Dress, 2022
The red dress
Child Mathinna forever afloat in water encased, immortalised.
Remembered as the little girl in the red dress.
Is this all I am? Is this all that I have become, a portrait?
Thomas Bock observed me, stilled me, prepared me for the portrait, I a-seat in this red dress.
Look into my eyes, see my sadness, silent tears.
In reality I drowned.
Sorrow sits heavy, almost suffocating, chokes in my throat.